“PARADISE FOR TWO”

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 88, 5 July 1927, Page 17

“PARADISE FOR TWO”

REGENT’S NEXT ATTRACTION That young gentleman wher has a. winning smile as well as a punch in both of his capable fists will hold forth next Week at the Regent Theatre with his newest Paramount screen offering, “Paradise For Two,” in which rollicking comedy-drama he gives one of the best exhibitions of his career. Richard Dix is a young man whose remarkable versatility enables him to be cast in almost any role, it seems. He looks equally well as the red Indian, the prizefighter, the football player, the college boy or the man about town. And his actions in ail cases have that rare quality of naturalness. He is therefore afforded wide lattitude of action.

“Paradise For Two’ 'bids fair to be as great a hit as his previous pictures. He is riding high on a well-deserved wave of popularity. As 'Steve Porter in “Paradise For Hwo,” he is entirely sympathetic to the role. He is the rich young bachelor with a legacy that he can’t collect, according to a stipulation in the will, until he is married But further than this all the women he knows are “gold-diggers,” none of whom he would consider as his breakfast table companion for the remainder of his days. The only girl in whom he is at all interested he has never seen. His acquaintance with her consists merely in a nightly look at her profile against the window of a room in a lodging; house across his back court L’ncle Howard (Edmund Breese) complicates the situation by registering disapproval of the Porter parties staged by Maurice (Andre Beranger) when he cuts off Dix’s allowance, and demands marriage of the young romantic.,

How Richard hired a girl to pose as his wife and how he finally found romance and true love, see for vourself. There are plenty of thrills in every scene, and all the good hearty laughs that any Dix devotee could wish. Betty Bronson is featured as the girl. The J. C. Williamson Celebrity Vaudeville portion of the bill will offer Jeannette Gerrard and a unique and artistic novelty act.