NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 606, 7 March 1929, Page 15

NEW REGENT

“THE BUSHRANGER” The new programme to be shown at the New Regent Theatre this evening is headed by “The Bushranger,” in which Miss Dale Austin appears. The director of “The Bushranger”

has brought a chapter of early Australian history to the screen with remarkably vivid and convincing effect. Aided by a selected group of wellknown Australians, headed by “Snowy” Baker, as technique directors, Whitney, the director, combed the romantic history of Bal-

larat, Victoria, and the highly adventurous bushranging days, for material for “The Bushranger,” and in this story, chocked with romance, thrills, and adventure, he has unfolded with fast, action thrilling in scenes typically Australian.

1 im McCoy plays the role of a voung English soldier who suffers transportation to Van Diemen’s Land for his brother’s crime. He escapes from the settlement, and not knowing that a Pardon has been issued, embraces the life led by Starlight. Thunderbolt, the Kelly Gang, etc. He appears on the highway leading to Ballarat in the days when that city was the first in Australia, and by robbery under arms has a high price set on his head by the police. The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture, “The Baby Cyclone.” co-starring Lew Cody and Aileen Pringle, will also be shown. Supporting the co-starring team are Gwen Lee, whose Pekingese dog was impressed to take the title role of “Cyclone,” and Robert Armstrong. stage actor of “Is Zat So.” How love flies out of the window when a dog conies in the home is narrated in the film with many unusual gags and opportunities for novel comedy touches. Two romances are almost wrecked through the attention showered on the pun. before the love tangles are untied. The only villain in this satire on modern marriage and society is the inoffensive canine pet. The women love it. the men detest it. When forced to choose between the men and the pet, both women choose the dog. On the stage Manual Hyman will present a pot pouri of iazz and singing, and new music will be played by Mr. Maurice Guttridge’s orchestra. One of the biggest “sets” ever erected at the Paramount studios represents a street in the Chinese quarter of San Francisco, and was used for a number of dramatic scenes of “Tong War.”