THE NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 200, 12 November 1927, Page 15

THE NEW REGENT

NEW DENNY RELEASE The new Reginald Denny release is well titled. “Fast and Furious" was screend before a large audience at the Regent Theatre last evening. There was not a dull moment from start to finish. Reginald Denny is always popular, even if they do make the English star don American clothes and speak the American language. “Fast and Furious'* is in the true Denny style. He hurls himself at breakneck speed from incident to incident until he culminates in a glorious red-hot climax. First, there was the meeting with the girl—a sensational affair. Her father resisted the road-hogging proclivities of Denny, and the result was that the young man found himself on his neck by the roadside with his high-powered , racer on top of him. The effect was somewhat disastrous to the youthful enthusiast’s nerves. It would have killed half a dozen ordinary men. Yet it did not prevent Denny from winning the Grand Prix or its motoring equivalent in the name of his inamorata and, incidentally, the heart of the young woman in question as well. It did, for a time, however, turn his interests in the direction of decrepit hansom-cabs. It is all just as improbable as the most eager movie-fan would have it. Yet “Fast and Furious” is snappy, bright, entertaining: what more, therefore, can be demanded of Reginald Denny? Vaughn, billed as the “king of syncopation,” provided the vaudeville act. With equal dexterity he can coax his own version of the sextette from “Ducia,” or “Ain’t She Sweet,” from his Xylophone. Vaughn is a young man who works hard, and deserves the applause that follows his popular offerings. “Modern and Ancient Italy” is another of that excellent series of European travelogues, always appreciated at the Regent. A Pathe colour review, the Regent Magazine, and a comedy, “Let George Do It,” completed the pictorial bill. Maurice Guttridge’s orchestra again played the “Hungarian Lustpiel” of Kela Bela, and Eddie Horton, at the Wurlitzer, "Roses of Picardy.” in honour of Armistice Day.