THE NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 94, 12 July 1927, Page 17

THE NEW REGENT

“PARADISE FOR TWO” Richard Dix and Betty Bronson are convulsing large audiences at the Regent Theatre in Paramount’s delightful farce, “Paradise for Two.” In this film the excitement ci*aving type of girl who thinks only of a good time, contrasts strongly with the sweet homeloving type as depicted by Betty Bronson. Dix in his > desire to find a different feminine 'type, half falls in love with the shadow of a girl on a pane of window glass. He sees her silhouette against the window of a lodginghouse across the back courtyard of his home. But he is forced to confront the problem of marriage when his uncle Howard (Edmund Breese) cuts off his allowance entirely and stands firm on the terms of the will of which Uncle Howard is the executor. This gives rise to a series of amusing situations, for the will stipulates that Richard must get married before he can get a cent of the money that his parents have left him. Dix bungles the clever solution offered by his friend Maurice, a theatrical producer (Andre Beranger), and subsequently finds the girl, and learns that marriage is not so bad after all. A special attraction is the first and exclusive film of the epic flight of Captain Charles Lindbergh from New York to Paris, and Jeannette Gerrard, of the J. C. Williamson Celebrity Vaudeville, is scoring a big success with her novelty scena from Montmartre. A special musical programme is played by the operatic orchestra, and Eddie Horton’s numbers are as pleasing as ever, and there are the usual excellent supports.