NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 480, 9 October 1928, Page 15

NEW REGENT

“PARTNERS IN CRIME” “Knife” Reagan, terror of the underworld, scourge of all law-abiding citizens in a crime-torn community, is at large, while police are frantic and the rival underworld gang trembles in apprehension because it has broken an agreement and invaded the terror’s district! Into such a situation Wallace Beery and RaymondiHatton make their bow to the world as Sherlock Holmes’s greatest rivals, in “Partners in Crime,” Paramount’s melodramatic comedy, now being shown at the New Regent Theatre.

For the first time since they furnished the comedy in such pictures as “Behind the Front” and “We’re in the Navy Now,” Beery and Hatton forsake burlesque and ludicrous costumes in “Partners in Crime.” They are real characters in a story that furnishes the maximum in comedy through legitimate situations. Beery has the part of a detective with a good heart but a thick head. Hatton plays a dual role. He is a hard-boiled newspaper reporter who loves to ridicule the police, especially Beery, and he also takes the part of “Knife” Reagan, the mysterious outlaw who brands his victims with his merciless knife. An ambitious young assistant district attorney seeking advancement so he can marry the girl he loves, declares war on the underworld. He is kidnapped, and Beery and Hatton start on the trail. Mile. Michel and her Parisian models present their sensational act, “The Enchanted Web.” Mile. Michel performs some brilliant work on a flying trapeze. “The Czarina’s Secret,” another gorgeous technioolour production, completes the programme. *

The musical programme is again in the hands of Mr. Maurice Guttridge and his Regent Operatic Orchestra.