NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 348, 8 May 1928, Page 15

NEW REGENT

• “TWO FLAMING YOUTHS” “Two Flaming: Youths,” starring those two comedians, W. C. Fields and Chester Conklin, is the first feature on the programme rjow being shown at the New Regent Theatre. Fields is seen as the owner of a fast failing side-show which staggers into the little Kansas town of Arkosa, where Conklin is sheriff. Conklin has for several years considered himself engaged to the town’s most attractive * 4 old girl,” the widow, Madge Malarkey, played by Cissy Fitz Gerald. But Fields gets the idea of marrying the widow, and tire two youths flame ambitiously in front of the widow in this feud for her hand. Mary Brian and Jack Luden carry the romantic leads, the former as Fields’s daughter, the latter as Conklin’s son. “Jesse James,” starring Fred Thompson, is the second feature. This is a story of a modern Robin Hood who terrorised the country after the American Civil War. The orchestra, under the baton of Mr. Maurice Guttridge. plays the overture “Morning, Noon and Night.” and Mr. Leslie V. Harvey, at the Wurlitzer organ, Shubert’s “March Militaire.” Miss O’Leary’s pupils present a potted pantomime entitled “Mother Boots” at each matinee only.