NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 130, 23 August 1927, Page 15

NEW REGENT

“EVENING CLOTHES” Louise Brooks, whose striking? hair dress caused flapper fans to name the style after her, has had her head transformed into a hysteria of curls

for her role in “Evening Clothes,” Adolphe Menjou’s newest starring picture for Paramount, which is being shown at the New Regent Theatre. The Louise Brooks may be said to have been a combination of the. Pola Negri, Florence Vidor and

Colleen Moore hobs, retaining the distinctive features of each. It had Colleen Moore’s Dutch cut in front, and the Negri side effect and the Vidor rear ensemble. It was so striking that reviewers from coast to coast turned handsprings when Miss Brooks first showed it to advantage in her first featured role in “A Social Celebrity.” She also displayed it in “The Show Off,” “The Old Army Game,” and ‘‘Love ’em and Leave ’em.” The new hair looks like the old-fashioned style of “frizzing.” EVERYBODY’S “A KISS IN A TAXI” Filmdom’s first man and woman comedy recently split up after twentyfour days of work, but not because of any discord within the partnership ranks. The laugh-provoking couple were Bebe Daniels and Chester Conklin, star and featured comedian in Paramount’s French farce, “A Kiss in a Taxi,” which was directed by Clarence Badger, and is now being shown at. Everybody's Theatre. “A Kiss in a Taxi” is the first picture Bebe and Chester have appeared in together in spite of the fact that both are long residents of the film colony and got their start on the comedy lots. This rollicking farce was adapted by Doris Anderson from the stage play of the same name. Douglas Gilmore plays the romantic lead. Henry Kolker, Richard Tucker, Eulalie Jensen and Agostino Borgato are in the supporting cast. LIBRARY LECTURES GREY LYNN The Rev. Jasper Calder will deal with the subject of perennial interest in his lecture on “Evolution” at the Grey Lynn Library to-morrow night, August 24. Starting with the beginning of things, the lecturer will show what we know and what we don’t know about the origin of life. He will then deal in a popular and interesting manner with primitive life, and treat of such topics as natural selection, the survival of species, reptiles and mammals, and anthropoids and man. A large number of lantern slides will be shown to illustrate the lecture. PRINCE EDWARD “MARE NOSTRUM” Rex Ingram’s first production since “Scaramouche” and “The Arab” is r, distinct improvement on both.

Filmed in France ind Spain from the •elebrated novel by /icente B 1 a s c o banez, the new Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer picture, ‘Mare Nostrum,” is saturated with excellent atmosphere, whilst telling one of the most sensational stories

Antonio Moreno ever screened. It goes back to the war years on the Mediterranean and exposes the huge espionage system of the Central Powers, at the sime time bringing into the limelight the strange romance of an Austrian spy and a captain of the Spanish merchant marine. The seaman had been lured into serving in a ruthless submarine, campaign by the wiles of the spy before she learned that she really loved him. From that moment it is an unbroken sequence of sensational tragedy. Alice Terry and A&tonio Moreno are featured in “Mare N »trum,” which comes to the Prince Edwards Theatre to-night.