RIALTO AND REGENT, EPSOM

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 172, 11 October 1927, Page 15

RIALTO AND REGENT, EPSOM

“THE CHEERFUL FRAUD” Reginald Denny will be seen in “The Cheerful Fraud” to-night at the Rialto and Regent Theatres. The film is a scream from beginning to end, and Denny, as the baronet who lies and lies and lies to win the -girl of his heart, simply revels in the part, presenting his admirers with severaj thousand feet of glorious fun Despite the title of the film, the members of the cast were convinced during the making of the picture that its name should have been “Rain.” Buekctts tubs, vats, gallons, hogsheads of and ficial rain were poured on the heads of the cast in “The Cheerful Fraud.” One of the members of the company, being statistically inclined, deduced that some 300,000 gallons of water were used in keeping the company wet and cold. With the exception of five or six scenes it rains constantly during the entire story of “The Cheerful Fraud.” The hero and heroine meet in the rain, they are driven indoors while he is proposing marriage by a sudden storm. The villain runs away with the jewels and is pursued in a thrilling comedy cha.se through a driving rainfall. And even the final fadeout, with hero and heroine reunited after enough comic troubles to last a lifetime, was staged with gleeful assistants pouring water on the heads of the actors.