NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 233, 21 December 1927, Page 15

NEW REGENT

“MAN POWER” Old Stoddard could scarcely beileve his eyes. His pet machine, the Stoddard Six Tractor, which everyone had declared a failure and him raising a loan necessary for business, was ploughing its way up the greasy slope to the dam with precious cargo. Creeping toward the dam belonging to the man who had refused the loan. How had it got there? Why had Tom Roberts meddled with it when forbidden? Those and a hundred other thrilling things are shown in the Paramount picture, * “Man Power,” which stars Richard Dix. It will be screneed for two more days at the New Regent Theatre. The leading lady is Mary Brian.

A feature of the pictorial programme this week is an excellent and delightfully interesting film entitled “The Romantic North Shore.” This picture, Which is being screened by arrangement with the North Shore Expansion League, is of great local interest, and some first-class photography shows splendid shots of Takapuna, Cheltenham, Bayswater and Stanley Bay. Supporting items include a particularly funny screen comedy, Shore Leave,” featuring Billy Dooley, the new Paramount star comedian, and an interesting Regent Budget of topical events showing, among other things, “The Trooping of the Colours” in the Horseguard Parade, London.

This week’s musical programme is very strong. Besides an excellent performance by Mr. Guttridge and the Regent Operatic Orchestra, Eddie Horton’s numbers at the organ include a selection from “No, No, Nanette,” “Because” and a Robertson number, “Tickling the Ivories.” The human background provided by a thousand men is used for the love story in “Th<y Rough Riders,” Paramount’s great drama, which reaches the New Regent on Friday. With Charles Farrell and Charles Emmett Mack, both competing for Mary Astor, there is constantly behind them in shifting scene, the rollicking, heroic body of men who have come down in history to fasne for their spirit, gallantry and picturesque qualities during the Spanish-American War. The use of this beloved regiment as a background for a romantic love story is something new, made effective through Victor Fleming’s splendid Always in the tender moments of the lovers, one senses the pulse of a mighty armed unit in motion, the trampling of horses’ hoofs, the thud of saber against saddle and the joyous resonance of the voices of men bound for war.

“His Lady,” Warner Brothers’ special production, starring John Barrymore, supported by Dolores Costelio, and a large and notable cast, is to be released by Master Pictures in 1928. This is a screen version of Abe Prevost’s immortal story of the days when Louis XV. ruled in France.