NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 193, 4 November 1927, Page 15

NEW REGENT

“TEN MODERN COMMANDMENTS”

Laughs, chuckles and a few wrenches at the old heart strings are said to be found in Esther Ralston’s latest starring vehicle for Paramount, “Ten Modern Commandments,” which will be shown at the New Regent Theatre tonight. . , , , . When Miss Ralston finished her great success, “Fashions for Women,” she asked for three things. The first was a storv of stage life. All of her childhood had been spent behind the footlights and she wanted a story dear to her heart. , The second request was that Dorothy Arzner, Paramount’s woman director, be asisgned to handle the megaphone. Miss Arzner’s direction of “Fashions for Women” was so splendid that Miss Ralston’s second wish was gratified. Thirdly, she asked for handsome Neil Hamilton as a -leading man—and got him, too. That combination couldn’t fail, and they prove it with “Ten Modern Commandments.” The story is woven about a maid in a theatrical boardinghouse, a child of the stage, who refuses to follow in the footsteps of her parents. How she overcomes this feeling, and attempts to learn the “Ten Modern Commandments” of the chorus is the foundation for this last word in entertainment.

“Vaughan,” xylophone expert, will open at the Regent Theatre to-day. He is termed the “King of the xylophone” and by his playing shows himself entitled to the description. He plays a varied selection of offerings with the skill of only the accomplished artist and extracts the maximum of melody from his instrument. Popular airs, operatics, jazz and syncopation are all the same to this great artist, who is equally versatile as his flexible instrument.

The Regent orchestra, under the conductorship of Mr. Maurice Guttridge, will render as an ent’racte “Morning, Noon and Night,” by Suppe, together with other specially arranged selections. Mr. Eddie Horton at the Wurlitzer organ will introduce another novelty number, with Panethrope accompailment, “It All Depends on You,” and Schumann’s “Traumerei.”

The supporting picture programme includes, in addition to the carefully selected Regent review of topical world events, an interesting travelogue of the German Republic, and a rollicking “Snookum's Baby” comedy.