THAT RED-HAIRED GIRL

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 424, 4 August 1928, Page 16

THAT RED-HAIRED GIRL

ELINOR GLYN’S STORY AT THE REGENT Most of the women who got things done in history from Cleopatra down to Lady Macbeth, seem to have had a head of that flame-coloured hair, around which the moths of men hovered, fascinated by nature’s danger signal. The latest of them all is the peppy Clara Bow, who keeps up the tradition in “Red Hair,” the Hlinor Glyn comedy, and the top-liner on this week’s big programme. Fresh from Giro’s, London, come Meza and Adrienne, sensational dancers, who, beginning at the matinee to-day, will grace the stage in a splendid series of classical, acrobatic, character and ballroom dances. Miss Adrienne toured America and France with the incomparable Pavlova. Between the vaudeville and the big picture there are two good comedies, the latest news tjlm, and music from the Regent Operatic Orchestra, under the capable conductorship of Mr. Maurice Guttridge. You can’t keep a good girl down, especially if she is blessed with red hair, and Bubbles McCoy has a great curling mass of it in “Red Hair." She manicures the hands of as many of the business men of New York who can make appointments and the others hope for better luck next year. In a technicoloured prologue, one gets a real impression of the „ charms of this Clara Bow Miss McCoy, the flame of her hair in the sunshine of one of those sea-and-beach days and the shapeliness of her trim figure in a one-piece bathing costume. After that it is perfectly easy to understand why lawyers and medical men have clients and patients at the beach and why men would fling themselves from liners’ decks to rescue her. Bubbles plays them all for as much as she can and the professionals love the sport, not realising they are on the end of the line which 5, ai il f ; S the hook and sinker. So Bubbles flutters and flits until the only man .comes upon the scene and takes her by storm, or, to be more accurate, by water. Then out comes this nasty golddigger reputation which she‘has acquired and the guardians of the “onlv man” decide that she is not the girl their ward. In a hectic seen* Bubbles proves her reputation at the expense of her clothes—and, well it is a wonder the scene got past the censor. Clara Bow, who really has red hair makes a fiery path through the film as the dangerous Miss McCoy. She proves herself the best little ‘bad girl who ever took a present from an elderly gentleman and had the courage to return it—in his face. She is backed up by an excellent cast of comedy stars and the hero is big, strapping and handsome.

The supports include an extremely funny comedy, “Long Hose,*’ featuring Jack Lofty, the old gentleman with so much pep and a goatee beard. The story is about the village fire station. A Krazy Kat cartoon, “Wired and Fired,” has some hilarious moments and the news film gives the latest pictures of the war in Clvtia. “Raymond” (Thomas) is the overture, splendidly played by the Regent Operatic Orchestra, under the able baton of Maurice Guttridge.