NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 452, 6 September 1928, Page 15

NEW REGENT

JAZZ AND BEBE DANIELS TO-MORROW To-night will see the final showing of the international epic of the air, “Wings,” starring Clara Bow, Richard Arlen and Charles Rogers, which has been showing at the New Regent for the past fortnight. Commencing to-mor.row, the latest picture made by the popular actress, Bebo Daniels, will be shown. This is entitled “The Fifty-Fifty Girl,” dealing with the theme of a modern girl insisting on her rights even to the extent of thinking she can take the man’s place in work and responsibility. •The Fifty-Fifty Girl” is. a very worthy success to the string of excellent comedies and comedy-dramas that Bebe Daniels has been producing during the past year. Miss Daniels takes the role of Kathleen O’Hara, while James Hall, the leading masculine player, is seen as Jim Donahue. “I’ll bet you my half of the mine against yours that I can run it as any man—and never call for help!” This was Kathleen O’Hara’s challenge to Jinx Donahue. But Kathleen didn’t know what a jam her challenge was getting her into. She was a very modern girl—the kind that wears neckties and declaims on the equality of the sexes, and Jim was just a regular fellow, who knew that Kathleen loved him as he loved her, even though he couldn’t get her to admit it. When they became joint heirs of the HI Dorado gold mine each wanted to run it. Tom Katz’s Saxophone Band, which arrived in Auckland this week, will also appear to-morrow. Tom Katz is no ordinary musician, nor are the other members of his troupe of “Crooning Bellboys,” who have taken audiences by storm. Another reason for 4;heir popularity is that they are not musicians alone. They include in their programme a little of almost everything that goes to make up a vaudeville -turn out of the ordinary. .Further, each of them possess a personality of his own, a personality which is individualistic even though the excellence of their team work and orchestration might be calculated to suppress it. Not the least pleasing feature of the success of the sextet is that they are all Australian-born and use allBritish instruments. The musical programme will be, as usual, in the hands of Mr. Maurice Guttridge and the Regent Operatic Orchestra.

The sensational romance of the big newspaper press associations and their methods of collecting and instantly distributing news from the far ends of the earth, furnish the original idea for William Haines’s starring picture, 'Telling the World.” The picture deals with a newspaper man in the interior of China, who sends out a story from an isolated town which thrills the entire world. This picture will be released shortly.