NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 289, 27 February 1928, Page 13

NEW REGENT

ALL PICTURE PROGRAMME The management of the New Regent has shown punctilious care in choosing the items "this we.ek for the “all picture” programme. Although there is no vaudeville attraction, the bill is excellent, and for good entertainment and variety will be hard to better. Clive Brook, featured Paramount player, plays opposite Clara Bow in her latest Paramount starring vehicle, “Hula,” an adaptation of Armine Von Tempski’s popular, novel, which is the chief pictorial attraction. Brook appears as a young English engineer who, though married to another woman, falls madly in love with a beautiful Hawaiian girl. In the powerful drama, Clara is irresistibly drawn to love Brook, in spite of his wife’s existence.

“Stark Love” is the second feature on the programme. This pioneer film considered from any angle and by any criterion, is astounding in its effectiveness. Karl Brown, the producer, has taken a mass of intimate facts concerning the people who inhabit the mountain fastnesses of North Carolina, and has woven them carefully into a master cinema which reveals the life of a strange people in all the stark melodrama of their savage surroundings.

Another of the popular series of Famous Music Masters, incidents in the life of Verdi, is presented on the screen, to a magnificent and inspiring accompaniment by organ and orchestra combined. The melodious and light music of “La Traviata” and “II Travatore” are followed by the stirring music of “Aida,” until a terrific and aweing finale is reached in the crashing ensemble of organ and orchestra playing the grand march from “Aida.” A Krazy Kat Cartoon and an interesting Budget of world news complete the pictorial programme. Leslie V. Harvey at the organ again scores a great personal triumph this week. In his hands the mighty Wurlitzer becomes a beautiful and melodious instrument. When he is playing straight music as in “Pale Moon” or jazz as in “My Blue Heaven,” his execution is masterly, melodious and an absolute pleasure to listen to. The Regent Operatic Orchestra, under the baton of Maurice Guttridge, is, as usual, excellent, and provides a first class musical programme.

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