NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 719, 19 July 1929, Page 17

NEW REGENT

“WOLF SONG” ON SATURDAY This evening sees the final screening at the New Regent Theatre of the line talking and singing production, "Close Harmony,” starring Nancy Carroll and Charles Rogers, also the entertaining short talkie features. The big attraction at the New Regent tomorrow is "Wolf Song,” a romance with an exciting Mexican background. The stars are Cary Cooper, the handsome young actor who rose to fame through his work in "Beau Sabreur” and "Region of the Condemned,” and Lupe Velez, the fiery little Mexican actress. Cooper has the role of a blonde giant of the California mountains, incapable of any fatigue, ever moving and attractive, and always attracted to women. In a. dance hall lie meets a beautiful and high - spirited Spanish girl, daughter of a proud and wealthy family. She is engaged to a young Spanish grandee, but bates him, nlid is anxious to see some wild life. She is attracted to Cooper, who practically kidnaps her and marries her, carrying her away to the mountains. Soon afterward, he becomes engaged in a fight with Indians, and returns to find bis bride gone. Her family has come and persuaded her to leave him. How he follows her and wins her back despite the hatred of her proud Castillian people, is told in a melodrama that is moving continually and is always full of action. There are five songs in this Paramount film version of the Harvey Fergusson novel, "Wolf Song.” The theme song, "Yo Te Amo,” which is sun by Miss Velez to her own guitar accompaniment, was written by Richard Whiting and Leo Robin, New Y r ork composers. The other songs in the picture which are sung by various characters are "The "Wolf Song,” "Mi Amado,” "My Honey, Fare Thee Well” and "Te Lola.” A number of exceptionally interesting talkie features will be presented on the new programme, including another Pathe Sound News and Audio Review; a Paramount short all-talk-ing comedy entitled "The Pusher in the Face”; a dramatic sketch by Walter Huston entitled "The Carnival Man”; also “Daisy Bell,” an animated cartoon with sound effects.