NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 518, 22 November 1928, Page 15

NEW REGENT

TWO PICTURES AND DANCING Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton have taken their second step into the new motion picture realm of melodramatic comedies. This type of picture merited much success when introduced with “Partners in Crime.” The new picture, “The Big Killing,” to he shown this evening at the New Regent Theatre, is a clever" satire, bristling with humour, on another section of American life, the backwoods mountaineers. The hew Beery-llatton melodramatic comedy, “The Big Killing,” goes a long way r from the larger cities, and even from the front pages of the newspapers. It deals with a family feud war among the moonshine-making mountaineers in the backwoods. This type of individual still exists in the United - States in large numbers, but, being remote, his activities being largely confined to his own virgin territory, little is heard or known of him. When the two moving picture comedy men enter this environment, there is a complete barrier of laughter thrown up around the serious aspects of this little known life, but all the unusual customs and the peculiar activities of the characters are utilised, without distortion, to provide exquisite moments of fun. The second big picture to be shown at the Regent this evening will be “The Sawdust Paradise,” starring Esther Ralston. The star appears as a blonde Venus in the glittering life of the travelling circus; “The Sawdust Paradise” is an unusual story of love between totally different types of people—a circus girl and an itinerant evangelist, played by Hobart Bosworth. Mr. Maurice Diamond’s big stage presentation this week will include a fine dancing act, entitled “The Evolution of Jazz,” N staged in silhouette, and depicting the minuet, the waltz, the cake walk, the Charleston, Black Bottom, and Varsity Drag. Stella Lamond, the fascinating singing soubrette from Sydney, will make her first appearance this evening, and new items will be contributed by Ivy Towe and Fred Hodges. Two of the outstanding features of the show this evening will be the novelty musical satire, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” and new jazz items by the Regent Syncopators, under Mr. Maurice Guttridge.