NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 633, 9 April 1929, Page 15

NEW REGENT

If one wants to keep ahead of these jazzing* and dancing times, see “Our Dancing Daughters” at the New Regent Theatre.

With Joan Crawford, Johnny Mack Brown, Dorothy Sebastian and Anita Page in the leading roles, "Our Dancing Daughters” has a cast as scintillating as its spectacular settings. Supporting these featured players is a stellar supporting cast which includes Kathlyn Williams and Nils Asther. The supporting programme includes the dramatic picture, “Midnight Madness,” starring Jacqueline Logan and Clive Brook, also the wonderful performance by Gautier’s Dogs. The music is, as usual, supplied by Mr. Maurice Guttridge’s Operatic Orchestra, Karl Dane and George K. Arthur are partners in crime as well as in comedy in "Brotherly Love,” which comes to the New Regent Theatre as a Metro - Goldwyn-Mayer fun feature next Th ursday. In the satire on “reform” prisons, the famous laugh team are seen as convicts in a collegiate penitentiary where they have guards only to keep paroled prisoners from breaking in again. A gaol football team supplies the principal motivation behind the love interest in which the warden’s pretty daughter is the centre o.f complications. Dane and Arthur, as the prison baseball gladiators, duel ■with touchdowns for her hand and their football antics are uproarious with side-split-ting situations. . Jean Arthur (no relation to George) is the leading lady, and the supporting cast includes Edward Connelly, Richard Carlyle and Marcia llariss. A second big picture will be shown on Thursday in Lillian Gish's latest picture, entitled “The Wind.” Her new role is that of a delicatelyreared Virginian girl suddenly thrust into the hardships of the cattle coun-. try by the death of a relative. In this wild desert • country the girl’s soul is seared by the constant privation. The dreaded sand-storms of the prairies and desert are the backgrounds for most of the scenes in this powerful drama. Lars Hanson, who played opposite Miss Gish in "The Scarlet Letter,” lias the leading male role.