NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 605, 6 March 1929, Page 15

NEW REGENT

NEW PROGRAMME TO-MORROW

This evening will see the final screening at the New Regent Theatre of “Excess Baggage,” a comedy-drama of vaudeville players and movie actors, starring William Haines; also of “Honour Above All,” starring Beatrice Joy and Nils Asther. The new programme to be presented to-morrow will be headed, by “The Bushranger,” an American picture notable for the inclusion in the cast of Miss Dale Austen (“Miss New Zealand”). The new picture is a vivid romance of Australia’s’ early bushranging days —adventure, thrills and robbery under arms depicted, with amazing fidelity to early history. The story tells of Edward, son of an English gentleman, who shields his younger brother when he finds the latter embracing his Colonel’s wife. He is blamed and is deported to Van Dieman’s Land, later escaping to become a bushranger. Some time afterwards his father is appointed a Commissioner to inquire into the colony’s police administration, and Edward, as “Captain Hazard,” holds up his father, brother, and his father’s pretty ward. At a Ballarat Ball that night he eludes the police, but returns to Lucy and is arrested. Lucy enlists the aid of other bushrangers to release Edward, but is kidnapped. Edward escapes and rescues her, but the younger brother is killed in the fight and confesses that Edward has been the victim of his gLiilt. Edward and Lucy find happiness at last.

Marion Douglas, herself an Australian girl, the heroine and Tim McCoy is “Captain Hazard.” Russell Simpson, Arthur Lubin, Edwin J. Brady, Rosemary Cooper, Billy Franey and Frank Baker, brother of the famous Australian sportsman, “Snowy” Baker, are among the players in the new picture.

A second big picture will be shown in “Baby Cyclone,” a gay comedy starring Aileen Pringle and Lew Cody. Manuel Hyman will appear on the stage in a pot-pourri of dancing, jazz and singing. Music will as usual be pi’ovided by Mr. Maurice Guttridge’s Orchestra.