NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 237, 27 December 1927, Page 17

NEW REGENT

“THE ROUGH RIDERS” A grudge fight for the championship of a rough and ready regiment is one of tho exciting incidents in “The Rough Riders,” which is now being shown at the New Regent Theatre. Even the most rabid fight fan will get a thrill out of the punishing encounter between the two young giants, Charles Farrell, leading man, and Fred Kohler. Kohler is tli© top-sergeant, and Farrell a sergeant, in the Paramount prpduction. Both aro bruisers, and they have an intense dislike for each other. Tho light settled once and for all the question whether actors really hurt each other in screen fights. Director Victor Fleming was a well-known athlete and boxer once on a time. James Howe, first camera man, used to be the

flyweight champion of the Pacific Coast. Realism was the watchword. Smashing punches that went true to their mark, left marks and welts on tho faces of both men. Twelve hundred Rough Riders forgot it was a film fight and went wild with excitement. Farrell and Charles Emmett Mack stage another battle over Mary Astor, and this, too, is thrilling. Noah Beery and George Bancroft add a few tussles that prove funny, semi-windup affairs. Tho programme is augmented by Maurice GLitridge’s superb orchestra in a grand organ and orchestral entracte. Eddie Horton at the organ includes another novelty song film entitled “Auld Lang Syne,” and Wallace and Gennett, of J. C. Williamson celebrity vaudeville, are seen in soft shoe and eccentric dancing.