NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 127, 19 August 1927, Page 15

NEW REGENT

NEW PROGRAMME Bertini, described as the vagabond-composer-violinist, who achieved an immediate triumph last evening at the New Regent at his opening performance, will appear again to-night and for the rest of the week. In addition to rendering his own composition “My Pal is Mother.” Bertini will also play “Czardas” (Monti) and “Meadow Bark.” During his performance Bertini will introduce several novelties, including eccentric violin playing, imitation of the bagpipes, etc. The principal film to be screened at the New Regent will be Paramount’s latest, “Evening Clothes,” featuring Adolphe Menjou. The story adapted from the French play “The Man in Evening Clothes,” by Andre Picard and Yves Mirande, two of France’s popular playwrights, is concerned with the adventures of Lucien, a wealthy member of the landed French nobility and his adventures following his acquisition of a wife who is a Parisian. Their incompatability, which is the result of her marrying him not because of love but in respect for the wishes of her parents, forms the motive of the action. Germaine, the bride (Virginia Valli), scorns Lucien because of his uncouth country ways. She cannot understand his preference for a life on a farm to life in the gay drawing rooms of the capital. He permits her to leave him on their wedding day. after forcing on her half his fortune. The scene of the picture moves to Paris, where Menjou is spending his time, money and energy acquiring the city polish that he considers would make him pleasing in the eyes of his lost bride. How he first fails because of her own unbelief in him, and how ho is reduced to poverty through his subsequent attitude of recklessness, is unfolded in a series of dramatic and humorous episodes that add more laurels to the already heavy wreath that Menjou wears. The complications of the plot are finally untwisted to make a strong dramatic climax in which Menjou and Germaine as the object of his emotion exhibits all the finer subtleties of the acting that has made him famous. Noah Beery plays the part of Lazaa.re, a comic, whose girl For Trot (Louise Brooks) leaves him fo.r Lucien. Luther Reed directed. Among the supporting films will be the first and official pictures of Lindberg’s, the world-famous aviator, extraordinary welcomes at New York and Washington. This film which was only received in New Zealand this week, shows scenes of unparalleled enthusiasm and sensational receptions. The New Operatic Orchestra, under the capable leadership of Maurice i Guttridge, will render “Orpheus” I (Offenbach) as the overture.! Eddie Horton will also play selections on the I Wurlitzer organ.