NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 189, 31 October 1927, Page 15

NEW REGENT

“SENORITA” Bebe Daniels has raised her ever mounting standard of excellence another notch, “Senorita,” now being screened at the New Regent Theatre, is the best thing that the fascinating Bebe has ever done. That’s making a pretty sweeping statement, but it is true. In “Senorita,” Bebe has the best vehicle that she has had in years. The story was made for her and affords her opportunities that outdo any she has had in the past. It’s a real Bebe Daniels picture. In the first place she is cast in a Spanish role; Bebe is part Spanish, you know. But the real kick comes in the fact that Bebe appears through the greater part of the picture disguised as a boy. We’ve seen her in boyish roles before, but here is something so vitally different that it stands out. And, for the first time, we see her roguish eyes twinkling above an inky black moustache —a hirsute adornment that is vastly becoming. The story of “Senorita” is the kind that this fascinating Paramount star does the best. It is packed with romance and adventure and amusing situations. We see her first as an up-to-the-minute American girl, winning a polo match and, despite her alluring femininity, doing everything that a man can do in the field of sports and doing it better than most men. And then we see her visiting her grandfather in South America and learn that he has always considered her as a boy. Rather than disappoint him she dons masculine disguise and then the fun begins. With her background of sport she outrides, outshoots, outfences and outwits the Caballeros of her grandfather’s estate and those of his ancestral enemy. Of there is a love story, and Bebe is seen alternately in the garb of a boy and in that of a fair senorita. James Hall has the leading male role in support of Miss Daniels, and William Powell that of a swaggering bully of the pampas, who is the cause of all the dirty work. Joan Standing, Josef Swickard and Raoul Paoli complete the cast.