NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 350, 10 May 1928, Page 15

NEW REGENT

“BEAU SABREUR” TO-MORROW Intrigue, love and adventures on the vast Sahara desert offer something spectacularly and refreshingly attractive in the line of motion picture entertainment at the New Regent Theatre, when Paramount’s new production, “Beau Sabreur,” will be shown to-morrow night. With a cast of sterling quality,- unusual direction and more unusual Photography, “Beau Sabreur” comes tcf this city as a companion of even greater magnitude to “Beau Geste.” Both were from the pen of Percival Christoph/.Wren, whose stories of the desert and the Foreign Region have proved best sellers everywhere. Gary Cooper plays the 1-ole of Major Henri de Beaujolais, the dashing virile young Frenchman who vows he will never look at a woman—and then meets one. Cooper is ideal in the part, and gives a fine performance of the handsome soldier-sheikh of the burning sands. Evelyn Brent is the girl, Mary Vanbrugh, who becomes mixed up in a series of thrilling adventures with Cooper. Noah Beery, William Powell, Mitchell Lewis, Roscoe Karns, Joan Standing, Arnold Kent, Frank Reicher, Raoul Paoli and Oscar Smith are other members of the strong cast. The battle scenes, in which a horde of Touaregs, the desert wolves, sweep down on a little oasis and meet up with several dynamite mines planted in the sands, present some of the most amazing sequences ever put on a screen. “Beau Sabreur” is a picture you’ll like. It has everything that goes to make a great production. It has thrills galore, heart interest, a romance that is hard to equal, and a cleverly entwined thread of comedy. Special music for this stirring picture will be provided both by Mr. Maurice Guttridge and his orchestra, and by Mr. Leslie V. Harvey at the Wurlitzer. An interesting supporting picture will be the life of M. Balfe, in the Music Master series. The pantomime, “Babes in the Wood,” will also be presented.