NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 458, 13 September 1928, Page 15

NEW REGENT

SAXOPHONES AND PICTURES The picture of a modern young woman with advanced ideas on matrimony, entitled “The Fifty-Fifty Girl,” which has been showing at the Regent Theatre, will be presented for the last time this evening. Bebe Daniels is seen at her best in this picture, playing the part of a girl who inherited a mine and told her fiance she could run it as well as any man. Her experiences in living up to her boast provide a very enjoyable entertainment. To-morrow evening there will be presented the latest Richard Dix picture entitled “Easy Come and Easy Go.” Richard Dix has made an enviable name for himself as an actor who knows how to bring new characterisations to the screen. He has been an Indian, a tank officer, a golf suit salesman and has played in other roles of various kinds, but it is said that #>is latest part, that of a typical young American man-about-town is his best yet.

Further, the new story abounds in laughs, for the story is delightfully humorous right from the first scene. With Nancy Carroll, the youthful star, as %.s leading woman, Dix offers a lively, laugh-provoking characterisation of a young man unwittingly made the accomplice of an accomplished crook.

Charles Sellon, whose screen career has been a series of clever supporting parts, has the important role of Jim Bailey, the veteran crook, with whom Dix becomes involved. The part calls for an unusual amount of fine acting in the humorous twists which the situations demand. That the saxophone is an instrument of art as well as an instrument of jazz music, is demonstrated by Tom Katz and his saxophone band every evening at the Regent. It is the best a 11saxophone band that has been heard in Auckland.

The members present a humorous appearance with their coal-black faces and coloured bellboy costumes, but they give the aydience what it wants, music all the time, and every kind of music from jazz to old-time ballads and the classics. The leader is one of the finest saxophonists that has ever visited Auckland and has a wonderful control over his instrument.