THE REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 30, 28 April 1927, Page 15

THE REGENT

“POKER FACES” Another mighty programme of music, pictures and vaudeville will commence at the New Regent Theatre to-morrow, and it promises to prove just as attractive as all the splendid offerings the “theatre magnificent” has put forward in the past. The picture programme will be headed by the Universal super-farce, “Poker Faces,” starring beautiful Laura La Plante and Edward Everett Horton, the inimitable comedian about whom it has been said that even a flicker of his eyelash is enough to make gloom itself burst out laughing. The story tells the comical adventures of a young man who, for business reasons, palms another girl off as his wife, then is accosted by his real wife and the strong-armed husband of the other girl. Incidentally the accosting takes place just when the young husband who did the “palming-off” is getting away with it! And all the time the young man endeavours to keep up his bluff, to maintain his expressionless “poker face” of injured innocence, so that his employer will still think he is honest in his avowal that the wrong woman is the real wife. So this roaring riot of sprightly comedy rattles on. The settings are rich and the humour richer, and lovers of real clean fun calculated to get them very near the verge of hysteria, should not miss “Poker Faces.” The vaudeville side of the bill will be upheld by Paddy Saunders, famous English cartoonist, an artist with pencil and easel, and. a comedian to boot. Luring his entertaining act, Paddy keeps up a running fire of jokes that never fail to get home. The cartoonist, who is on his way to America, has appeared before both the Prince of Wales and the Duke of York. A special musical attraction will be the third of the famous and immensely popular “Music Master” series. This will be Franz Liszt, depicting incidents from the life of the great master, with specially synchronised music. Eddie Horton will play new numbers on the mighty Wurlitzer and a special programme will be played by the Operatic Orchestra under the baton of Maurice Guttridge.