“SENORITA”

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 185, 26 October 1927, Page 14

“SENORITA”

NEW REGENT ON FRIDAY James Hall took the beating of his life, and took it standing up. While his hands were lashed over his head,. a long snaky Argentine stock whip j wielded in the skilful hands of Raoul j Paoli, champion European athlete, j wound itself around his body time and i time again. The Seating was a part of the scene in Bebe Daniels’s latest Paramount production, “Senorita,” in which Hall plays the lead opposite the star. Despite the skilful manipulation of the xvhip in the hands of Paoli, the encircling lash stung as it flicked Hall’s bare skin. He just grinned and kept on with the scene.

Miss Daniels appears as a Xorth American girl who assumes masculine disguise and masquerades as a Caballero of the pampas. William Powell. Joan Standing, Josef Swickard and Tom Kennedy complete the cast. Clarence Badger, who has directed so many of the Bebe Daniels successes of the past, directed “Senorita” from the original screen play by John McDermott.

Fink and Ayres, one of the most j sensational acts which have appeared in Xew Zealand, and certainly the most; novel act ever brought to the Xew Re- i gent, will open there on Friday. Their act is one of the most skilful and : hazardous yet seen on the stage, creat- i ing a sensation in America and Europe and took Australian audiences by storm. The curtain rises on a lowwhite platform, on which the two men are revolving, on roller skates, at amazing speed. Almost unbelievable strength and balance is shown by both performers. Circling on the platform, the shorter of the two men is lifted by his companion in a variety of positions. At one time he locks his skates behind his companion’s head and is whirled round with his body extended horizontally. It is one of the fastest acts ever seen. Although! it lasts only a few minutes each second is filled with breathtaking stunts of amazing speed.