THE REGENT

Gisborne Times, Volume LXX, Issue 11123, 5 February 1930, Page 6

THE REGENT

“WHITE SHADOWS IN THE SOl Ul SEAS.”

M FTRO-GOLDW Y.N'S COLOR FEATURE. Far away on the lovely islands of the South Seas, the mui'ves o. the Polynesian race are rapidly dying out before the onrush of a wnjfe civilisation. Metro-G oldw yll _Ma ye r has engraved their story faithfully and with colour and realism un celluloid in “White Shadows in 'the South Seas,” tne tropica! romance now showing at the Regent Theatre which features Monte Blue and Unequal Torres in the principal roles. On this theme the director lias built a real human motion picture. After picturing the present status of the natives under white civilisation, ho takes Dr. Lloyd (Monte Blue) and throws him on an undiscovered island where the natives still live in their primal beauty. And then he introduces untold wealth in pearls and shows "now Lloyd is bound to run to form and cause the destruction of the people he loves. Kacquol 'lorres as the island princess appears opposite Blue, while Robert Anderson is the only other white member of the cast, which is completed by several hundred natives. The plot is built on the regeneration of a white mt'ii, wlicf, a*ter having Mink to the level of a beach-comber reasserts himself to avenge a native pearldiver, and as a result of his chivalry is lured on board a plague ship, lashed to the wheel and set au’rilt. The ship is wrecked on the reef of a tropical island paradise where he is adopted by a native tribe and wins the love of the chief’s daughter. What happens later forms a story of intense dramatic «u peal.

A brilliant programme of i'eatur. ettes supports the big picture. Vincent Lopez, noted pianist, plays “Flapperette”, “Twelfth Street Rag” and “Canadian Capers” ; George Dewey Washington, a golden voiced son of five South, sings in appealing fashion “Sonny Boy”, “There’s a Rainbow Round My Shoulder”, “Lovely Little Bluebird” : and Duci Do Kerekjarto, master violinist, plays "Amiulusian Romance” and “Spanish Dance.”