RIALTO AND REGENT. EPSOM

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 440, 23 August 1928, Page 14

RIALTO AND REGENT. EPSOM

‘ON YOUR TOES” Reginald Denny's latest picture, entitled “On Your Toes.” will be shown at the Rialto and Regent (Epsom) Theatres this evening. In this picture, Denny plays to perfection the role of an effeminate younc man, whose father had been a prizefighter. His grandmother keeps this information from him, but Dennys natural ability as a boxer comes out and he gradually rises to the worlds championship. The final scenes show some thrilling rounds in the championship bout. “Life’s Circus,” the second attraction, is an intensely dramatic story of love and fear in the private lives of circus performers. The story includes a terrifying spectacle of a woman in a car speeding down a steep giade, to be hurled in a double somersault imo the air, and land safe on a mattress in the centre of the ring. But though she came through alive, her ears were deaf to the plaudits of the crowd. She feared" the terrible glide her father forced her to make each night so that he might win fame and power. “SPORTING GOODS” AT BRITANNIA The popular actor Richard Dix is seen in an enjoyable comedy, “Sporting Goods,” to be shown at the Britannia Theatre this evening. The picture opens when Dix is travelling cross-country in a battered roadster, bound for Los Angeles. Tl*ere he hopes to be given a big order for a trick kind of golf suit he has invented. In the desert, he ruins his car through helping a millionaire going East, and, since desert travel is pretty rough, the millionaire continues on the train. Dix is to take his Rolls-Royce back to Pasadena. “The Last Waltz,” a picture based on the famous light opera by Oscar Strauss, will also be shown. Willy Fritsch, the well-known continental