NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 240, 30 December 1927, Page 15

NEW REGENT

“MANON LESCAUT” TO-NIGHT To-day, the New Regent will present “Manon Lescaut,” the U.F.A. artistic photoplay, adapted from the famous novel by the Abbe Prevost, and the equally famous opera of Massenet. Manon Lescaut was a young and beautiful girl, the idol of Paris. A creature of opposites, she was at the same time the worst woman in Paris and the most loved woman. Good and yet bad, schemind and yet ingenious, loving and yet hating, her life from the moment she escaped from the chains of her Puritanical maiden aunts was a mixture of worldly' pleasures and unhappy tragedy, and in the maelstrom of her sadness, of her tragic misfortunes, she dragged down with her the young and handsome Chevalier de Grieux, son of the Marshal of France.

He was young, handsome, trusting, without a single worldly desire, with no knowledge of the fleshpots and sophisticated pleasures of the outside world, on the eve of entering the Church and leaving life, worldly life, behind him for ever. But Manon came, and this hitherto quiet and loveless youth became a vibrant, passionate lover—to him life meant only one thing—Manon Lescaut; things undreamed of by this youth sprang into life within his breast, and as before his one aim was seclusion, protection against worldly temptations, so now his desire was Life! Love! Manon! With all the pleasures, all the hopes, all the desires and aspirations, all the satisfaction, and happiness that they meant to him. And life would have been sweet and wonderful and serene to him, for really Manon loved him. His was the only pure sincere love of her life—but her beauty, and her wondrous charms excited envy and jealousy in the breasts of other men. Among- these latter was the Marquis de Eli, wealthy, powerful, unsorupulous. His jealousy and hate of We™ ch , evaller dragged the two through many a moment of <a safCe ring and anguish. .Gj-a, de Eutti, 'whose magnificent work m “Variety” showed her to be an actress of amazing qualities, outshines d lSX e =e?pT^”" llo6 iD the tate.? vofa U i«t°s at le th S e UC R e e S g S e d t Url h n& ths¥ shortsefs.fn’S onrwe r ek tU on,y d *° T r hel a Danub r o” Sr due? e " The from “II Trovatore,” Aga “vC SPanish a Suel°“ig e a “tllita^ 16 SlSn ° r wni S a e tUrS specially arranged m us lcaPsc’ and a be rendered by the - score will orchestra, under th? 4 °P er atic Guttridge. h baton of Maurice an interesting^ Enlrish’’gnlTe include s clever Mutt ann Gazette, a very beautiful Paths review?* 1 ' 400 "’ and a

Clara Bow, the flapper star of paramount Pictures, has started a new bobbed hair style, the “Medusa,” in which the locks wave wildly in the breezes. She will display it in her new picture, “Red Hair,” now being filmed. The story is by Elinor Glyn.