NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 723, 24 July 1929, Page 17

NEW REGENT

LAST DAYS OF “WOLF SONG” A story' of both romantic and historic interest is revealed in “Wolf Song,” the Paramount sound and music synchronised picture now at the New Regent Theatre. Adapted from the successful novel by Harvey Fergusson, the story is set in a picturesque part of Mexico, and is interpreted by a large cast of well-known players. The leading roles are played by Gary Cooper, Lupe Velez, Louis Wolheim and Constantine Romanoff, who give memorable portrayals in difficult parts. The adventures of Sam Lash, a young pioneer, who elopes with a beautiful Spanish girl, are of exceptional interest, and the film has been very popular. The supporting programme of talkies includes a Paramount all-talk-ing comedy, “The Pusher in the Face,” starring Estelle Taylor, a dramatic sketch by Walter Huston. entitled “The Carnival Man,” and a soundsynchronised cartoon. On Saturday the Regent will present another Paramount all-talking mystery drama entitled “The Studio Murder Mystery.” This film deals with the inside working of a motionpicture studio, with all the apparatus on view, and in addition to the thrilling incidents in the story there has been captured all the excitement that goes into the making of pictures at a busy studio. If you like a good detective yarn, and who doesn’t, there is unequalled enjoyment in “The Studio Murder Mystery.” This story, the .action of which concerns the hunt for a clever double slayer in the absorbing atmosphere of a motion picture studio, contains all the thrills and suspense which, when it ran as a serial in “Photoplay Magazine,” set 2,000,000 people agog. Now this story lives on the all-talking screen. An excellent cast, composer! of stage and screen stars of acknowledged ability, enact this drama. Neil Hamilton Warner Oland, Fredric March, and Loris Hill, are in the group, and Frank Tuttle, who directed that famous screen “thriller,” “Something Always Happens.” directed this picture.