NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 349, 9 May 1928, Page 15

NEW REGENT

“TWO FLAMING YOUTHS” “Two Flaming Youths,” starring Chester Conklin and W. C. Field’s, is the first feature on the programme now being shown at the Ivew Regent Theatre. , _ The story concerns the tight tor a widow’s hand between Gabby Gilfoil (W C. Fields), the owner of a sideshow, and Sheriff Ben Holden (Chester Conklin). Field’s sideshow is the remnants of a circus he once owned, but he has no money to proceed further, so opens in an empty shop in Arkosa. Business is poor, and anyway his rival for the hand of Madge Malarkey, the sheriff, hounds him out of the to\vn. He hears of a carnival in the nearby town of Boynton, and sets out for .there. _ Sheriff Holden gets a copy of the Arkosa paper. On an inside page is a picture of Gabby, and a story about his show. On page one is a picture of Slippery Sawtelle, on whose head rests a 1,500 dollar reward. Slippery sees it before Ben and cuts out his likeness, thus making Gabby’s picture appear over the reward story, so Ben goes to Boynton to capture Gabby. From then on the picture is an hilarious comedy, proving Conklin and Fields to be two of the greatest comedy actors of the screen. The second feature of the programme is “Jesse James,” starring Fred Thomson in a story of an American Robin Hood, the story of a bank robber who all the time was the most valiant cavalier of his age. The orchestra, under the baton of Mr. Maurice jGuttridge, plays the overture, “Morning, Noon and Night,” and Mr. Leslie V. Harvey, at the Wurlitzer organ, Schubert’s “March Militaire.”

Miss O’Leary’s pupils present a potted pantomime entitled “Mother Boots” at each matinee only. “Beau Sabreur” is the big picture, to be shown at the New Regent next week. It is a sequel to “Beau Geste,” P. C. Wren’s great story of the French Foreign Legion, which was the first picture even shown at the New Regent Theatre. The story of “Beau Sabreur” is laid in Algiers and the Sahara, and concerns a man who vowed neve l to look at a woman. A wonderful cast has been assembled to portray this great story, and includes Noah Beery, Gary Cooper, William Powell and Evelyn Brent.