NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 455, 10 September 1928, Page 15

NEW REGENT

VAUDEVILLE AND PICTURES A modern young woman with advanced ideas of woman’s rights and capabilities provides an entertaining hour’s fun at the New Regent Theatre this week, where the film “The FiftyFifty Girl” is now being shown. The star actress in this picture is that vivacious little lady Miss Bebe Daniels. She is Kathleen O’Hara, who inherits a mine and insists that she can run it as well as anyone else. Her finance, Jim, makes a bargain that he will do all the woman’s work on the job if she will do his, the first to complain to forego their share of the mine. Bebe’s troubles and trials as minemanager are the most enjoyable parts of the picture. She has to contend against one Morgan who tries to bluff her out of ownership. Then Morgan incites his Italian miners against the now terrified girl, and she has to cry for Jim’s help. Jim snaps out of his petticoat role and, by strategy and a pair of able fists, saves Kathleen and the mine. As Jim gathers Kathleen into his arms at the finish, with the mine now all his own, Kathleen insists on her woman’s rights again, and points out that she will recover her half of the mine, under the California law,as soon . as they are married. Tom Katz and his saxophone band held the complete attention of a full house at the Regent on Saturday evening. More than that, the band commanded rapturous applause at the conclusion of each rendition, and was several times recalled.

There are half a dozen performers in the band, and they are all artists at their work. The instruments are all saxophones, of every key and size, but in the hands of the little negro boys they excite the emotions of the audience to a pitch of enthusiasm- The old popular tunes come forth with new and amazing vitality. Sometimes they are low and sweet, sometimes sad and sombre, sometimes radiant and happy, but at all times pleasurably welcome. They stir the emotions according to the nature of their moods and fancies. These master musicians syncopate their way through a programme surprising in its novelty and originality. An excellent supporting programme is also provided, and the musical accompaniment is again in the hands of the Regent Operatic Orchestra, under the baton of Mr. Maurice Guttridge. Every extra player has his day, and now is the time when ugly men come into their own. All sorts of curiouslooking people are seeking parts in “Me, Gangster,” a new Fox production. The wicked visaged have been in big demand for some time past, notably in underworld dramas.