NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 212, 26 November 1927, Page 17 (Supplement)

NEW REGENT

“ROLLED STOCKINGS” STARRED Colway College was a hatching-house of super-athletes, an incubator of super-chickens out of America’s gilded youth. Its frequenters one would not call students, for there is nothing about Colway that suggests the “midnight oil” more than does the party moonshine, but there are among them men who can pull the sides of an eight away from the bottom and outrun the stags. But where girls are concerned there is no one who can distance “Speed” Treadway. He and his brother are the leads in i “Rolled Stockings,” a Paramount junior star picture, heading the proI gramme at the Regent, and the girl in the case is Louise Brookes, whose Nilotic beauty most film patrons will remember with piquant and pleasing recollection. She then is the prize and tho brothers Treadway the contestants. “Rolled Stockings” is a triumph for the junior stars, James Hall and Richard ; Arlen and Louise Brookes’s film fame is appreciably increased also.

And on the rolled stockings theme, Regent patrons have a chance to win stockings for themselves, or sox if they are friendless gentlemen connoisseurs. Realising that there is a variety of tastes, the Regent management has included on recent programmes a series of Lives of the Masters of Music, and this week the subject is Frederick Chopin. On the relations of the composer and Madame “George Sand”— friendship, romance or tragedy, call it as you please—a very touching story has been filmed borne along on the Master’s own themes.

And now the Fox cameraman has gone to Greece to film the remains of the glory that was hers, and lie found the goats browsing on the rocks of the Acropolis and the freckled goatherd ready to pose lazily in the Parthenon and scramble round the Temple of Nike. ~ . ,

Fred Curran stepped off on the right foot this week with the song that set the civilised world laughing a few months ago when a pot-hunting Orinocan or Patagonian produced a geometrically straight banana from the depths of his fatherland and challenged the publishers for a reward. Nor is there any doubt on the popularity of Eddie Horton at the Wurlitzer. The Regent Orchestra, under Mr. Mauric Gutteridge, is all an orchestra should be with the additional feature of being in itself a musical treat-