THE REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 60, 2 June 1927, Page 15

THE REGENT

“STRANDED IN PARIS” “What’s the big idea? I want to see ‘The Dead Rat’ and ‘The Folies Berger e’ and the Apache dens. I want to go everywhere and do everything that people do when they come to see Paris. But as the re.sult of the most daring and thrilling and ooh-la-la series of events that ever befell a girl I find that I am stranded in Paris.” —(Signed) BEBE DANIELS.

That is the snappy way in which piquant, popular Bebe Daniels, Paramount’s great comedienne, introduces her latest and greatest farce, “Stranded in Paris,” which will head the special holiday programme coming to the Regent Theatre to-morrow. The picture is one long scream from beginning to end and will prove ideal for the festive season, when fun and frolic go hand in hand. Bebe in shown as a little shop girl who wins a trip to Paris. Landing in that gay city, she finds that the house at which she was to stay has been totally destroyed. Result—she is “Stranded in Paris” without a cent. By a peculiar and exciting circumstance, however, she enters a society modiste shop, just as the proprietors are wracking their brains as to where they can find an Englishspeaking girl to deliver some gowns at Deauville. Accidentally, Bebe is given tickets belonging to a Countess, and, on arriving at Deauville she is mistaken for such. The fun really begins when she lands in the Countess’s suite and the Count walks out of the bathroom, the Count, by the way, being none other than that inimitable comedian, Ford Sterling. From then onwards the mirth does not relax and the film works up to one of the most amazing climaxes ever screened. On the supporting bill will be Donald Stuart, high and mighty man of mirth and mystery, whose season opens this evening. Donald comes direct from the J. C. Williamson Celebrity Vaudeville circuit in Australia, where he is one of the firmest favourites on the boards. The second series of “Song Slides” will be given by Eddie Horton, with organ accompaniment, and, appropriately enough, they will deal with racing and the horses that do and do not *win. Maurice Guttridge has arranged another splendid programme for the Operatic Orchestra, and firstrate supports will complete this great holiday bill. A grand matinee will be held to-morrow afternoon.