NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 187, 28 October 1927, Page 15

NEW REGENT

VAUDEVILLE AND PICTURES The Regent’s 43rd programme, which commences to-day, may be counted among the most powerful programmes yet presented at this theatre. This week the management is presenting the most sensational vaudeville act ever brought to New Zealand. Fink and Ayres, who, following amazing successes in America and Europe, have recently taken Australia by storm, will appear in their roller skating act at the matinees and evenings for one week only. Their act is incomparable. What others do on their feet on a large stage, these two artists do on roller skates on a small platform. Acrobatic dancing, with all its rhythmic beauty, its hair-raising and life-risking stunts, is expounded in their novel and unique skating; performance. From open to finish their whirlwind gliding and astounding balancing feats, particularly when one man whirls round at a terific speed with the other one hanging on to his neck by his feet with his body fully extended, simply raises one out of one’s seat with breathless excitement. Nothing like it has been seen before, even those daredevils riding their motor-cycles in the hoop of death are left behind in the stunts performed by Fink and Ayres.. What should a girl do when, after travelling several thousand miles to visit her grandfather, she finds that he has always considered her to be a boy, and that the visit of a granddaughter at that particular time would be little short of disaster? That is the problem that confronts Bebe Daniels in her latest Paramount comedy-drama, “Senorita,” which comes to the New Regent Theatre tonight. Miss Daniels solves the problem in characteristic fashion. She becomes a boy for the time being, and hiding behind flourishing black mustachios and the costume of a dashing cahallero she appears to the grandfather she has never seen, not as the Senorita Francesca Hernandez, but as Senor Francisco. This is the situation upon which John McDermott has fashioned the story for what is stated by critics to be the most fascinating role that Bebe Daniels has ever played. Supporting Miss Daniels in “Senorita” are James Hall, Paramount’s new leading man, who in this production makes his third appearance opposite the star; William Powell, Joan Standing, Josef Swickard, Gayne Whitman and Raoul Paoli, celebrated Italian leading man and all round European athlete. A particularly strong supporting picture programme includes the usual carefully selected Regent Review Topical events, an interesting picture of Berlin after the war, a screaming screen comedy starring the inimitable Johnny Duffy, a Mutt and Jeff cartoon, the skating instructor, and a scenic that should prove of more than ordinary interest to New Zealanders, showing as it does the wonderful construction that is going on in the building of Sydney’s magnificent new bridge, and the work that has been done in Sydney’s new underground railways. Eddie Horton, always popular at the organ, will play Schumann’s beautiful “Traumeri,” and will feature another novelty song film. ‘The Long, Long Trail.” An excellent musical programme may always be expected from the Regent Operatic Orchestra under the masterly- baton of Mr. Maurice Guttridge, who has chosen “Carmen,” by Bizet, for his entracte. Lars Hanson, who made his first screen appearance with Lillian Gish m “The Scarlet Letter,” will be seen shortly* in a fine dramatic picture entitled “Captain Salvation.” Pauline Stark, Ernest Torrence, Marceline Day and George Fawcett are also included in the cast of this Metro-Gold-wyn-Mayer production. A special shoe, with a sole four inches thick, is worn by Gustav von Seyffertitz, who has the heavy role in Pola Negri’s new starring picture for Paramount, entitled “Barbed Wire.” Von Seyffertitz takes the part of the club-footed neighbour of Hall Caine’s story, “The Woman of Knockaloe,” from which “Barbed Wire” is adapted.