NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 345, 4 May 1928, Page 15

NEW REGENT

TWO FEATURES TO-NIGHT “Two Flaming- Youths,” an uproarious comedy, is the big picture which will be shown at the New Regent Theatre to-night. When the two words “flaming” and “youth” are placed side by side the impression usually gained by the motion picture-goer is of rolled-stock-inged flappers and balloon-trousered youths with wine-kissed lips, dancing until morning. But the “flame*' ha's now jumped from the big city and the college to a one-horse town in the middle-west. And the age has been extended from the “teens” to the “late forties.” The two “youtlis” are those two moustached comedians, W. C. Fields and Chester Conklin, who have at last been brought together after numerous individual screen and stage hits, to work as a team at laugh-production. It is a sort of second childhood flaming youth exhibition in which Fields, as a veteran showman and owner of a struggling side-show, and Conklin as a grizzled county sheriff, vie with each other for the affections of another “flaming youth”—the town widow, Cissy Fitz-Gerald! And how these two do flame! Conklin does his with a musical saw and Fields with an array of juggling tricks. The second feature to be presented to-night will be “Jesse James,” a new type of bandit story with Fred Thomson as the star, mounted on his horse “Silver King.” The picture is a story of a raider and countryside terror, who was yet the most valiant cavalier of his age—the period of the American Civil War. Full supporting subjects will also be screened, and a new musical programme will be presented by the Regent Orchestra, under Maurice Guttridge, and Leslie V. Harvey at the Wurlitzer organ. At the matinee sessions only a pantomime, entitled “Mother Boots,” in three brilliant scenes, will be presented.