NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 186, 27 October 1927, Page 17

NEW REGENT

“SENORITA” The final screening of “The Flag Lieutenant” at the New Regent Theatre takes place to-night- The prologue to this picthre is in itself a feature of the programme, eclipsing everything that has yet been seen on the Regent stage. Mr. Colin Crane, who renders two songs, and Miss Cecil Hall’s prize ballet, are applauded nightly. Coming to the New Regent Theatre to-morrow is Bebe Daniels’s newest Paramout picture, “Senorita,” in which Miss Daniels is presented in an entirely E w type of role. In this colourful story of romance and adventure in South America, the fascinating Bebe Daniels of “The Campus Flirt” and “A Kiss in a Taxi,” appears in the character of a dashing caballero, a swashbuckling* high-spirited, hot-tempered son of the* pampas. The masculine characterisation is but a masquerade, however, a masquerade that leads her into all sorts of adventures and many amusing situations out of all of which she triumphantly emerges in true Daniels style. Here is a role that presents a new Bebe Daniels, a suggestion of whom was found in “The Campus Flirt” and to a certain extent in "A Kiss in a Taxi.” In fact it was the athletic role of “The Campus Flirt” that suggested to Miss Daniels the possibilities that might lie in a story in which she would don masculine guise and give full play to her love for all kinds of sports. In "Senorita” she found the fruition of her ambitions, and as the North American girl who becomes for the time a South American boy, she has the time of her life. She rides, shoots, fences and does everything that a son of the pampas would do. Playing opposite Miss Daniels is James Hall, her leading man of "The .Campus Flirt” and Stranded In Paris.” It is one of the interesting twists of the story that James Hall in his role as Roger Oliveros meets her only in her rare moments of complete feminity in the picture. William Powell, the smooth .suave villain of society dramas, appears in a swaggering role that is said to present him in an unusually interesting light. Others in the cast are Josef Swickard, Joan Standing, George Ovey and Gayne Whitman. Clarence Badger wielded the megaphone.