NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 171, 10 October 1927, Page 15

NEW REGENT

VOTING FOR MISS N.Z. To-day at the Regent the voting will commence in the final of the “Miss New Zealand, 1927” Beauty Contest. .For the past 12 weeks the finalists have been touring the Dominion, to be judged and admired everywhere. During the past week. Auckland has had the opportunity of seeing them on the magnificent stage of the New Regent. During the last few days of their appearance here, the public, who are the sole judges of this mammoth contest, are now asked to record their votes, in order to make the final selection for “Miss New Zealand, 1927.” Everyone attending the Regent at the matinee and evening performance to-day, to-morrow and Wednesday, ard at the evening performance on Thursday, will receive a voting-card. The finalists are presented on the Regent stage, the settings and lighting arrangements of which are incomparable in Australasia. They appear first in a parade of sports girls, representing boating, bathing skating, dancing, yachting, hunting, racing, etc., and then following a film of special screen tests, is a grand fashion parade, and voting by the audience. “The Prince of Headwaiters,” a drama with Lewis Stone, p riscilla Bonner, Lilyan Tashman, Ann Rork, Robert Agnew and E. J. Ratcliffe the featured players, is the powerful feature photoplay at the New Regent Theatre this week. It is one of the really exceptional pictures of the season, with Mr. Stone in his most dramatic role of the year. He is “Pierre,” headwaiter at the Ritz in New York. Priscilla Bonner has the part of Faith, Pierre’s bride. STheir son, Elliott, is Robert Agnew, and E. J. Ratcliffe has the part of Faith's father, who adopts Elliott as his own son when Faith dies. With Elliott grown up, Pierre learns for the first time he is his son. It is in the Ritz, with three other college boys, and their “party girls” that Elliott and his father learn to know each other, though unaware of the relationship. It is through Pierre that Elliott, the son, is saved from the gold-digger, Lilyan Tashman, and her gigilo, the comic John Patrick. And it is through Pierre’s efforts that Elliott and Beth (Ann Rork) are brought together. There is also a screamingly funny mermaid comedy, “A Sure Cure for the Blues,” an interesting Regent Review of latest English happenings, and a scenic of beautiful Holland and its canals. An excellent J. O. Williamson Celebrity Vaudeville act in Margo Rammage and her dolls completes ari exceptionally strong programme. Margo Rammage, a diminutive little maiden, receives tumultuous applause at every performance with her delightful Marionette show. The act is presented both afternoon and evening. Eddie Horton at the organ features “Moonbeam Kiss Her For me” with the panatrope. while the Regent Orchestra under the baton of Maurice Guttridge, renders an excellent musical programme, including an overture, “Merry Wives of Windsor.” Patrons are advised to reserve their seats for the very strong programme, in order to avoid disappointment.