NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 760, 5 September 1929, Page 17

NEW REGENT

“IDLE RICH” ON SATURDAY t Only this evening and tomorrow ■ evening remains for Aucklanders to see and hear the spectacular and j melodious comedy film, “The Broadway j Melody,” at the New Regent Theatre. ; With its catchy songs, colourful stage 1 scenes and melodramatic story by | Anita Page, Bessie Love and Charles I King, “The Broadway Melody” is one | of the most popular lilms ever screened i here. The new attraction at the Regent ; from Saturday will he another alltalkie, entitled “The Idle Rich.” ! Conrad Nagel, Bessie Love and j Leila Hyums play the leading roles in j this comedy of middle-class flat life, j which is taken from the famous stage | comedy hit, “White Collars,” and the supporting cast includes Robert Ober, James Neill, Edythe Chapman, Kenneth Gibson and Paul Kruger. Edith -Ellis wrote the play, which had a phenomenal run on Broadway and played for more than a year to capacity audiences in Los Angeles. Bessie Love plays the role of a jazzy little flapper, who won’t give up her ice-man sweetheart, even though she acquires a millionaire brother-in-law. Conrad Nagel plays the brotlier-in-j law. Leila Hyams, who recently scored a success in talking pictures when she played the leading feminine mlo opposite William Haines in “Alias Jimmy Valentine,” takes the part of. i xho dapper’s beautiful, but seriousminded sister, who wins the love of j her millionaire employer, marries him \ and introduces him to her middleclass family and home. The picture is rich in human in- i tercst, romance and laughter. It is ; an example of talking picture technique ; at its best. j A new programme of short talkies : will also be presented from Saturday, j