NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 220, 6 December 1927, Page 17

NEW REGENT

“FIREMEN, SAVE MY CHILD” Laugh-thrills are the order of the day at the New Regent Theatre, where the inimitable comedy team of Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton appear in their latest Paramount fun film, “Fireman, Save My Child.” This picture has been acclaimed the greatest and funniest of the BeeryHatton comedies, but it has the added novelty of being one of those rare productions in which the spectator is carried through a succession of heartstopping thrills while being convulsed with laughter. In the production’s big scenes, which is said to have been produced on a more lavish scale than either of its predecessors, “Behind the Front” and “We’re in the Navy Now,” some of the most daring shots ever photographed by a camera were taken. The rescues made by those intrepid

fire-fighters, Beery and Hatton, involve some exceedingly risky work, but while one wonders at their daring and the dangers they encounter, he is convulsed by the ludicrousness of their conduct, even in the midst of peril. The result is one of the most exciting humorous films ever made.

Edward Sutherland, director, and Monty Brice, comedy constructor, who served in these capacities on the previous Beery-I-latton farces, held the same posts for “Fireman, Save My Child.” Tom Kennedy, Josephine Dunn, Joseph Girard and Walter Goss are other prominent members of the cast. On the stage two celebrated grand opera singers, Bradford and Russo, whose collaboration and technique in the rendering of combined duets and solos are magnificent, appear. These singers, already famed all over the world, are gifted with rich, melodious voices. The act is a splendid combination of vocal art and artistic scenery, rendering favourite excerpts from the popular operas and classical numbers, together with popular airs.