NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 316, 29 March 1928, Page 17

NEW REGENT

CLARA BOW TO-MORROW Although the scene of “Get Your Man,” Clara Bow’s latest starring picture for Paramount, which will be shown at the New Regent Theatre is Paris, a new background has been established. There is no apache atmosphere, no gay night life, no fashionable resorts. The story is -on© of sparkling humour with a waxworks museum as the centre of Parisian activities for Clara Bow and her leading man, Charles Rogers. The plot also carries one to a massive chateau, into an exclusive perfume shop, along the business streets of Paris, down quaint French roads and through foreign gardens. The atmosphere is decidedly different. A new twist has even been added to the love element. A boy and a girl meet and fall instantly in love. But between them and happiness stands a huge barrier—that of French tradition in the matter of how mates are chosen for children of the nobility. Into the midst of French customs, which are about to bind Charles Rogers and Josephine Dunn to each other for life because their fathers believe they should marry, comes an American girl, Clara Bow. With her American ideas of freedom she cannot understand why she and Rogers should not be permitted to marry. She undertakes to break the betrothal which has existed for 17 years and the complications into which her scheme throws her supply much of the humour. The parts of the two fathers who bring about the engagement are played by Josef Swickard and Harvey Clarke. A big novelty on th#j programme at the New’ Regent Theatre to-mor-row will be the opening of the ladies’ diving contest, when the first heat will be decided. A special and permanent swimming pool has been constructed and many well-known amateurs will be among the contestants for the handsome trophies presented by the management.