NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 387, 22 June 1928, Page 15

NEW REGENT

SIR ALAN COBHAM’S FILM The management of the Regent Theatre has secured for presentation during the coming week another great British picture. The very cordial reception given to previous British pictures shown at the Regent, for example, “The Flag Lieutenant,” augurs well for the success of the new picture. “The Flight Commander” is not only a story of the Air Force, but in addition, carries the weight of personal support by that popular and intrepid British aviator. Sir Alan Cobham, K.8.E., who appears in the film. Sir Alan was not only a willing actor, but is interesting himself in the presentation of the picture in theatres throughout the British Empire. "The Flight Commander” is a story of a far oiitpost of the British in China. The daughter of a missionary had just been married to an elderly merchant, when an assistant arrived for him, brought by Sir Alan in an airplane. The newly-married girl (played by Estelle Brcdy) falls in love with the young assistant at first sight, and when the life of the little settlement is shortly afterwards endangered by a native uprising, confesses her love to her husband. The husband magnificently risks his life in an endeavour to save his assistant, although he knows his action may bring unhappiness to himself. Just when all seems lost, however, airplanes arrive under the command of the Flight-Commander and the fierce and dangerous fighting is quelled. Rural England is the background of “Doomsday,” which will be the second feature on the programme to-night. Paramount made “Doomsday” from the book of the same name by Warwick Deeping. The scene is a new one for the moving pictures. Pictures have been laid in almost every country and clime in the world, but rarely in the farmlands of England. Florence Vidor, who appeared rerently in “Honeymoon Plate” and “One Woman to Another,” has the starring role in “Doomsday.” Gary Cooper, the star of “Beau Sabreur,” plays opposite h er. Suitable incidental .music will be supplied by the Regent Operatic Orchestra under the baton of Arthur G. Frost.