NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 129, 22 August 1927, Page 15

NEW REGENT

“EVENING CLOTHES” Adolphe Menjou plays sophisticated Parisian roles better than any other actor on the screen, it is generally admitted. In “Evening Clothes,” now being screened at the New Regent Theatre, he is again cast as a Parisian, but he is not the gay boulevardier all the way through the picture. He is first seen in an absolutely different characterisation, as a French country gentleman, who although of aristocratic background and tremendous %vealth, has enough of the homely manners of the soil to repel the dainty Paris bride with whose parents he arranges a match. The scene of the picture is in 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 he 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 Lazaare, a comic, whose girl Fox Trot (Louise Brooks) leaves him for T.ucien. Luther Reed directed.