NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 697, 24 June 1929, Page 15

NEW REGENT

“INTERFERENCE” A most remarkable performance is presented in the all-dialogue production, “Interference,” a Paramount picture featuring four film favourites — Clive Brook, Evelyn Brent, William Powell, and Boris Kenyon. “Interference” is aptly termed “ a melodrama of the upper world.” It is gripping and thrilling throughout. It concerns a roue who comes back from the dead, and is discovered by an old fiancee. She pleads to be taken back, but it seems that the man, for once in his life, is really in love with his wife, whom he married before going away to war, where he was reported killed in action. His wife since had remarried. His cast-off love jealously seeks revenge by blackmailing the wife —now the wife of an eminent surgeon. Powell goes to the surgeon, where he discovers his wife, and that she is supremely happy. After being told that he is suffering from an incurable heart ailment, he resolves to make amends by retrieving some letters with which the wife is threatened by the jealous one. He does it in a most unusual way. The surgeon, because of some events, that follow, comes under the suspicion of the police. It is a remarkable plot, with remarkable characterisations by the four main characters. William Powell is the roue, Boris Kenyon the harassed wife, and Clive Brook the surgeon. It is laid in London, and was masterfully directed by Lothar Mendes from the original stage play of the same name by Roland Pertwee and Harold Bearden. There is also an excellent supporting programme, including three talkie sketches. In one of these, Elinor Glyn, the famous novelist, speaks on “What Is ‘lt’?” and in another Eddie Cantor, a delightful American comedian, is introduced to Auckland.