NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 685, 10 June 1929, Page 15

NEW REGENT

“ALIAS JIMMY VALENTINE” .The exciting talking production. “Alias Jimmy Valentine,” continues to thrill the aLidiences at the New Kegent Theatre. \\ illiam Haines has the leading - role of Jimmy Valentine, who has won an international reputation as the cleverest safe cracker in existence. For years he, with his pals, Avery and Swede, laughed at the police force of every big city in the country. Hoyle, a detective on the New York city police fo.rce, is determined to “get” Valentine. When an express office is robbed and a bomb exploded in the safe. Hoyle is satisfied that Valentine committed the robbery. Swede and Avery go to a small town some distance from New York to lavlow until the robbery blows over. Valentine joins them there, and finds they have made plans to rob the bank, lie meets Rose, a beautiful girl, and is greatsy impressed with the sweetness of her life with her father and her young brother and sister. He falls in love with her. but goes ahead with, the robbery plans. They rob the bank, but as Jimmy is leaving town he discovers that Rose’s father owns the bank. The banker offers him a job if he will stay. Jimmy puts the money back in the vault and tells Swede and Avery they are going straight. Swede agrees, but Avery tries to rob a manufacturing plant, and is killed. Jimmy, under the name of Randall, becomes cashier of the bank when Hoyle discovers his whereabouts and comes to arrest him for the express robbery. Jimmy manages to convince Hoyle that he is really Randall instead of Valentine. Just then the young sister becomes locked in the new vault and Jimmy reveals his professional skill to have her life. In addition there are a number of excellent singing and talking pictures. These include “Songs of the Roves,” a revue of songs and dances in natural colours, entertaining vaudeville sketches and songs by “Bob” Nelson, two songs by Johnnie Marvin, the well-known H.M.V. recording artist, and several selections by Barnardo He Pace, the wizard of the mandolin.

PLAZA “THE SINGING FOOL” Saturday evening marked the commencement of the sixth week of the most successful Auckland season of the talking and singing production, “The Singing Fool,” at the Plaza Theatre. A 1 Jolson, the celebrated American artist, plays the leading role. He is cast as a successful vaudeville entertainer in the film, which abounds in scenes. He marries a beautiful actress, who, however, proves to be unfaithful. His happiness is further shattered when liis only child dies. In “The Singing Fool” A 1 Jolson is revealed as one of the most powerful emotional actors on the screen, as well as an excellent singer and entertainer. Betty Bronson and Josephine Hunn are seen in the leading feminine .roles. There is an excellent programme of supporting talkie subjects. including songs by Giovanni Martinelli, numbers by Mischa Elman, the violinist, and a burlesque of opera players by the Howard Brothers. The setting of a monastery cell is used for the remarkable offering of a quartet of cowled friars.

Maurice Chevalier sings a song titled “Louise” in the Paramount all T talking and singing picture. “The Innocents of Paris,” which will prove one of the big hits of the coming season.