CELEBRATED PROTEAN ACTOR

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 279, 15 February 1928, Page 14

CELEBRATED PROTEAN ACTOR

COMING TO REGENT ON FRIDAY On Friday Mr. Owen McGiveney, the celebrated protean actor, commences a "short season at the Regent Theatre. Auckland is fortunate to have been afforded an opportunity of seeing this interesting side-line of histrionic art, and it is only by a happy coincidence that Mr. McGiveney was persuaded to remain in Auckland for a week. The actor happened to be on the Aorangi' at the same time as Mr. E. J. Tait, of J. C. Williamsons, Ltd., who was crossing to New Zealand, and was persuaded by the great leader of the theatrical world to remain for a short period in Auckland. Mr. McGiveney, who has made a world-wide reputation with his quick change work, was accorded a splendid reception in Sydney, where his arrival had been eagerly anticipated. The Sydney “Sun” says of him: “In a scene from ‘Oliver Twist’ he plays in turn the roles of Fagin, Bill Sikes. Nancy, Monks and the Artful Dodger, and. though in some instances barely a ‘{split second’ elapses between the exit of one character and the entrance of the next, each in turn is a masterpiece of costume and make-up. In all he makes 20 changes in 15 minutes, and the action of the play is at no time held up for more than three seconds.” This type of acting is new to the Auckland public and will no doubt attract large crowds to the New Regent when the season commences next Friday.

Reginald Denny, star of the Univer-sal-Super comedy, "Out All Night,” is one of the most able aviators in the Hollywood film colony, and is the owner of of the speediest airplanes on the Pacific Coast. During the war he was a member of the Royal Flying Corps of England. Denny is supported in his latest picture by Marian Nixon, Ben Hendricks, junr., Wheeler Oakman, Dorothy Earle, Dan Mason and a score of other.**