NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 409, 18 July 1928, Page 15

NEW REGENT

“SPORTING GOODS”

Mistaken identity is the basic theme of the picture “Sporting Goods,” starring Richard Dix, which is at present being shown at the New Regent Theatre. Dix plays the role of a wandering salesman, who has invented a trick golf suit. He claims the wearer will be able to beat any opponent through the many innovations he has incorporated in the suit. After many adventures, in one of which he finds himself in a most exclusive hotel in Los Angeles with onjy four dollars in his pocket, he finally secures an order for 10,000 dollars worth of suits. The buyer, who is Ford Sterling, then invites Dix to play a round of golf, both wearing a sample of Dix’s suit. While they are in the middle of their game, it rains, and Dix and Sterling are both dismayed to find the suits have stretched many sizes. Sterling immediately cancels his order. Dix is desperate. Not only does he need the order to keep himself from being thrown in gaol because of hij? failure to meet the hotel bill, but he must qualify himself in the eyes of the girl with whom he has fallen in love. To keep up appearances he has to borrow some suits of clothes from the millionaire’s wardrobe.

Dix has been wearing the clothes, and when he hears he is suspected of a robbery, he tries to sneak out of the hotel. Just when all the gang are chasing him, Sterling comes in with huge order, having heard the new suits are all the rage in the East. Dix is finally caught, and the millionaire turns out to be a director in the golf suit companj r . He makes Dix sabs manager with a salary big enough for him to marry the girl. The musical side of the programme is well provided for by Mr. Maurice Guttridge and his Regent Operatic Orchestra.