NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 309, 21 March 1928, Page 15

NEW REGENT

“MOW WE’RE IN THE AIR” Throughout the entire programme this week at the New Regent, the audience is kept in a continual state of real, happy laughter; it may well be called a “Laughter programme.” Packed houses have acclaimed the entire entertainment as the brightest and best all-picture programme seen for many a day. The main feature, “Now We’re in the Air,” featuring that inimitable comedy team, Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton, is simply one long shriek of laughter. Some comedies are excellent and make one laugh, but “We're in the Air” positively doubles the audience up with yells of merriment. Beery and Hatton take a flight with Malcolm Waite, the villain of the story, and Beery, forgetting that he and Hatton can’t drive, knocks the pilot, Waite, “cold,” with a monkey wrench. Another big Paramount production is shown in the same programme, “One Woman to Another,” featuring Florence Vidor in a happy, merry comedy romance. Leslie V. Harvey, eminent master organist, again scores a great personal triumph this week with his rendering of “At Dawning,” by Cadman, and Paderewski’s Minuet. Maurice Guttridge and the very fine Regent-Opera-tic Orchestra render an excellent musical score. The eternal triangle is given a unique treatment in the Adolphe Menjou Paramount picture, “A Gentleman of Paris,” which will be shown at the New Regent Theatre on. Friday. The valet of a gay young gentleman bachelor, a man of “affairs”—oh, ever so many affairs —discovers that his master is carrying on an affair with his wife. In extenuation it must be said that the master does not know that the lady is his valet’s bride. The valet would like to fight a duel with the master, but as a servant cannot challenge a man of superior social position, so he determines to quit his job.