NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 115, 5 August 1927, Page 15

NEW REGENT

NEW PROGRAMME TO-NIGHT Owing to the success achieved by Maxim Brodi, the briliant Russian tenor, at the New Regent during the last three days, the management has retained his services for the forthcoming week, when M. Brodi will sing Toselli’s “Seranata,” “Song of the Volga Boatmen,” “The Far Away Bells,” and “Give Me the Stars.” Miss Isobel Langlands, the brilliant young violinist, will also appear. All sportsmen—and women—will find much to intrigue them in the Richard Dix special Paramount picture, “Knock-out Reilly,” on the programme at the Regent Theatre to-night. Apart from the exciting plot, with the popular Dix as the champion boxer of the world, there is in the film a wealth of athletic genius, represented by men whose names are known from one end of the world to the other as leaders of the sporting sphere. The cast reads like a page from a Spalding Boxing Guide. Jack Renault, famous contender for Gene Tunney’s heavy-weight championship, plays a featured role, and Graham MacNamee, nationally known radio announcer of Station WEAF, who broadcast the Dempsey-Tunney fight, is at the ringside microphone. Joe Humphries, whose fog-horn voice has announced all the big championship fights for the last 20 years, is the ring announcer for the Dix-Renault bout. Patsy Halsey. former bantam-weight, and now a leading New York referee, is the “third man in the ring.” Jimmy DeForrest, who has trained Jack Dempsey and other famous fighters, is one of Dix’s seconds, while Kid McPartland, former light-weight, and now a referee, is the timekeeper. Playing dramatic roles in the picture are Larry McGrath, former featherweight boxer, who recently has been the leading Los Angeles referee; Eddie Garvey, former Notre Dame football star, who boxed professionally after graduation, and Tommy Madden, whose cauliflower ears tell his story. In a preliminary bout before the main go in the picture, are two young New York light-weights, John Dipse and George Ward. In Dix’s training camp, fighters who appear are Kid Lewis, former bantam-weight champion of the United States Army; Billy Vidabeck, prominent light heavy-weight; Jack Perry, the light heavy-weight who played the pugilist in the stage play, “Is Zat So?” and Sailor Gibbs, a feather-weight of the United States Navy.

The last touch of prize-ring authenticity is added to “Knock-out Reilly” by the fact that Richard Dix’s chauffeur, Scotty Devlin, is a former prizefighter. Dix boxed with him while training for the picture. Another fine musical programme will be submitted by the Regent’s operatic orchestra under the baton of Maurice Guttridge, and new numbers on the Wurlitzer organ will be played by Eddie Horton.