NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 356, 17 May 1928, Page 15

NEW REGENT

LAST DAY OF “BEAU SABREUR” “Beau Sabreur,” a story of the French Foreign Legion, a mingling of romance, adventure and thrills, and starring Gary Cooper, Evelyn Brent, William Powell and Wallace Beery, will be shown to-night for the last time at the New Regent Theatre. To-morrow night a new programme will be presented headed by “The Way of All Flesh,” starring Emil Jannings. Fbur absolutely dissimilar characterisations-, the most difficult and exacting he has ever attempted, are portrayed by Emil Jannings in this picture, which, by the way, is the first he has produced in America.. In the opening sequences the brilliant star plays a kindly, middle-aged family man, in love with his wife, his children and his work. Then “the other woman.” Phyllis Haver, enters his life, and years seem to drop from his shoulders. He is young, vigorous and carefree. Tljen comes the denouement and Jannings, a dissolute, broken man, wears the evidence of weakness in his haggard face. The fourth and closing characterisation is that of an old, old man, with bald head, scraggly beard, sunken cheeks and dull eyes. But here, again, comes a change, for sadness gives way to happiness, and the picture closes upon the smile of a happy patriarch. Belle Bennett, famous for her “Stella Dallas,” heads the cast in support of the versatile Jannings. Donald Keith appears as a young musician. Others in the cast have names as big, but their fame is overshadowed by the great central character, Jannings. New numbers will be played by Leslie V. Harvey on the Wurlitzer and by Mr. Arthur G. Frost and the Regent Operatic Orchestra.