NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 361, 23 May 1928, Page 15

NEW REGENT

“WAY OF ALL FLESH” “The Way of All Flesh,” a story of human weakness, will be shown for the last two days at the New Regent Theatre. Emil Jannings, said to be the greatest Continental actor, plays the leading role in this picture, the first made by him in America, and acclaimed as a great artistic and dramatic triumph. The story concerns August Schilling, a bank cashier who for 20 years lived very happily and quietly with his wife and six small children. Sent to Chicago by his bank, he falls in with bad company, loses the bank’s money and is instrumental in killing a man. Too ashamed to go back home, lie drifts through life, a waster and a derelict. One evening he happened to hear his own son playing a violin at a concert. The old man follows him home. There he sees his family in happy circle at Christmas. There he learns of two sons killed at the war and also of the respect in which his memory is held. A policeman catches him looking through the windows. To young August Schilling it is a time for happiness this Christmas, and- he pleads for the old man’s release. And so, he wanders away in the snow, saying he is very happy. The musical programme includes Handel’s “Largo’ and Mendelssohn’s “Spring Song” on the organ, by Leslie V. Harvey, and the Regent OperaticOrchestra, under the baton of Arthur G. Frost. Adolphe Menjou’s latest picture, “Serenade,” will head the next programme at the Regent, commencing on Friday next. Adolphe Menjou as a musical genius of Vienna, Kathryn Carver as the beautiful girl who becomes his inspiration and finally his wife, Lina Basquette as the gorgeous dancer who lures him away from his home, and Lawrence Grant as the bewhiskered Cupid, who manages to repair the ruined romance —that is the cast that enacts “Serenade.” As her first starring appearance for United Artists, Vilma Banky will make “The Innocent,” a story of Alsace-Lor-raine during the late war. Victor Fleming, Paramount director, will play opposite the Hungarian star, according to announcements made by Mr. Samuel Goldwyn. One. and possibly two other players, will be chosen from European fields.