NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 634, 10 April 1929, Page 15

NEW REGENT

“BROTHERLY LOVE” AND “WIND” This evening will see the final screening at the New Regent Theatre of “Our Dancing Daughters,” a startling story of ultra-modern girlhood starring Joan Crawford, Anita Page and Nils Asther; also “Midnight Madness” and the first-class vaudeville act by Gautier’s Dogs. If all the prisons were run like the one Karl Dane and George K. Arthur are seen in in “Brotherly Love,” coming to the New Regent to-morrow, all the crooks would be behind bars, for a strictly collegiate atmosphere prevails in, the “reform” penitentiary where “two-timer losers” rate seniority and ukulele-strumming fraternities hold full sway and post-graduate courses in football claim the time of most of the inmates. In “dear old Newberry” penitentiary, where Dane and Arthur spent their time making this new laugh riot, they don’t stand for anything crooked. One chap was thrown out for stealing a base in a ball game. The cells are luxuriously appointed with private baths, electric refrigerators and radio installations, not to overlook Karl Dane, bellboy and maid service. The warden is a grand old man who seeks to keep his gaol on the top of the athletic scores, and stays awake nights trying to think of more ways to make his “boys” happy. In the fun-maker M-G-M has given the famous comedy team as a new vehicle. Dane starts out as a prison guard who tries to make life uncomfortable for Arthur, who gets in gaol so he can better woo the warden’s pretty daughter. Complications land Dane in the toils of the law and he, too, becomes a convict. A football contest against the rival gaol supplies the chief motivation. After several years in roles covering almost every nationality, period and type of womanhood, Lillian Gish, queen of emotional stars, has come back to where she started. She first leaped to fame by playing a Southern girl in “The Birth of a Nation.” For the first time since she again plays the daughter of the old South in “The Wind,” a film version of Dorothy Scarborough’s vivid novel of the dreary desert plains which Victor Seastrom directed, and which will be the second feature to-morrow. Lars Hanson has the chief supporting role. New music will be played by the Regent Operatic Orchestra.