NEW REGENT ON FRIDAY

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 184, 25 October 1927, Page 15

NEW REGENT ON FRIDAY

“SENORITA” Bebe Daniels has the faculty for surrounding herself with people with whom she has worked in previous pictures, and who know her, and whom she knows. In “Senorita,” her latest Paramount picture, which comes to the New Regent Theatre next Friday, Miss Daniels has the director who has made many of her successes in the past. Clarence Badger, and H. Kinley Martin, the photographer, who has stood behind the camera on practically all of those pictures. As leading man she has James Hall, who has appeared opposite Miss Daniels in three pictures in eight months. William Powell, who crossed swords with her in “Dangerous Money,” meets her again in “Senorita ' as opponent. Joan Standing, who played Harriet Porter to Bebe Daniels's Patricia Mansfield in “The Campus Flirt,” is the “other girl” in the current production.

“DANCE MAGIC”

GREAT BROADWAY PICTURE “Dance Magic,” Pauline Starke and Ben Lyon are co-featured in First National’s glamorous picture of New York life, “Dance Magic” wherein the great White Way Broadway is brought to the screen, with all its colour and fast-moving variety. The story tells of the struggle of a girl to free herself from the prejudices of her narrow home environment, eventually running away to become a dancer on Broadway. Becoming involved in a sensational murder, she finds refuge again in her quiet New England home, and is re-united to the boy whom she was prepared to sacrifice for her career. Several elaborate settings feature the production, notably the «hunt club scene, and two beautiful numbers from one of New York’s best-known revues. The methods of the American police in conducting a “third degree” form a thrilling bit of the action.

Sally O’Neil, the dainty heroine of “Mike,” “Frisco Sally Levy” and many other successes, portrays a character of her own nationality when she plays the part of an Irish colleen, “Ellen Cab lahan.” in “The Callahans and the Murphys,” Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s hilarious comedy of two Irish families j living in New York. This picture is i d_ue for release shortly. The cast in--1 cAides Marie Dressier. Polly Moran, | Lawrence Gray and many other not- | able comedians.