NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 704, 2 July 1929, Page 15

NEW REGENT

FINE PROGRAMME If you have never visited a motion picture studio, don't fail to go to the New Regent Theatre and see MetroGold wyn-Mayer’s “Show People.’* The picture co-stars Marion Davies and William Haines, and offers the most interesting picture of a motion picture studio ever drawn.

Not that “Show People” hasn’t other attractions to offer —it has John Gilbert, Douglas Fairbanks, Mae Murray. Leatrice Joy, Norma Talmadge, Rod La Rocque, Charles Chaplin and many other great screen stars. It will probably rank as the best and most unusual comedy of the year. Marion Davies is easily America’s leading comedienne, and William Haines tops his own particular field. The story is entirely new’, unusual and full of a million laughs. King Vidor has taken the story of a little Southern girl who comes to Hollywood, enters motion pictures and eventually rises to stardom, and with this material has made use of all the funny incidents of life in the film capital that have occurred in the last years. The result is a, masterpiece.

A word should be said also for the very excellent work of the regular cast, which includes Polly Moran, Tenen Holtz and others.

A graphic plumbing of human souls in the torment of love, and one of the most remarkable “dual-personality” narratives of all times. is being screened as the second picture at the Regent, where John Gilbert is starring in “The Masks of the Devil.”

The picture is unlike anything ever before produced on the silver sheet; it violates all rules of dramatic construction in its daring audacity in telling the truth about human nature — and as a result it is one of the most griping, haunting human documents an audience has even seen.

In addition to these sound-syn-chronised pictures there are a number of talkie supports. They include Vincent Lopez on the piano, and George Dewey Washington, a negro baritone, who sings “There’s a Rainbow Round My Shoulder” and “Sonny Boy.”

Finally the big Wurlitzer organ is heard in a number of enjoyable pieces played by Arthur G. Frost. .