NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 399, 6 July 1928, Page 15

NEW REGENT

SEA-LIONS AND BEBE DANIELS If one likes good, clean, fast-moving comedy, then the picture, “Feel My Pulse,” with Bebe Daniels in the leading role, which is to be shown to-night at the New Regent Theatre, should be regarded as first-class entertainment. In the production, which is said to be one of Miss Daniels’s best, the dashing comedienne has laid aside her usual athletic type of role, and is seen as one who considers herself an invalid. How she convinces herself that, after all, she is just as healthy as anyone else, is the foundation of this fast-moving comedy. “Feel My Pulse” is the story about a wealthy American girl who has been brought up under the impression that her health is delicate, and that the slightest exposure is apt to be fatal. She goes to a sanitarium, left her through the provisions of her uncle’s Will, and .finds it in the possession of rum-runners and bootleggers. From that time on there is no let up in action, and how she realises that she isn’t the invalid she imagines provides a thousand laughs to the reel. Richard Arlen, one of the most popular of the younger leading men, again is seen opposite Miss Daniels, following his splendid performance in “She’s a Sheik.” Arlen has the role of a young novelist. Also included in the cast are William Powell, as the leader of the bootlegging gang, Heinie Conklin, as the drunk, and Charles Sellon, as the caretaker of the sanitarium. On the saihe programme there will be presented one of the most unique acts ever brought to New Zealand — Captain Winston’s Sea Lions and Diving Nymphs. ' A huge tank has been erected on the stage of the New Regent, and into this the girls dive and twist and turn. Every movement of the girls is faithfully imitated by the sea lions, who are quite at home in the water. Although apparently jealous of each other’s efforts, the sea lions do not resent the presence in the tank of the diving girls. This act is not only first-class entertainment, but also an interesting natural history lesson, for it is rarely, if ever, that water lions have been trained to do the tricks that Captain Winston has taught these animals. The musical side of the programme will again be in the hands of the Regent Operatic Orchestra, under Mr. Maurice Guttridge.