NEW REGENT
CLARA BOW’S FIRST TALKIE “The Wild Party,” a breezy tale of American college life, and Clara Bow’s first talking picture,, will be presented at the New Regent Theatre for the first time today.
The story commences when Clara and her “gang” of eight school-mates at an exclusive girls’ school get all excited over a new professor, Fredric March, and sign up for his class. They find out that he is serious and intends to make the students work hard. He and Clara clash the first day.
A few weeks later Marceline Bay, head of the student body, excludes Clara and her gang from a costume ball because their dresses are too daring. The girls then go to a roadhouse. While there they are insulted by Ben Hendricks, a drunken braggart. Hendricks tries to carry Clara to town in his car. but March intercepts this ! move'. There is a fight. March rescues Clara; they realise that they are in love. Joyce Compton, college snooper, sees March bring Clara home. The next day March “bawls out” Clara in class and she walks out. Clara persuades Shirley O’Hara, her studious room-mate, to attend a house party a week later. It is a wild affair. Shirley falla in love, genuinely, with Jack Luden at the party. On the same night Hendricks shoots and woLinds March for revenge. Clara ! goes to March’s study and re-avows her love. Joyce, the busybody, again J sees the meeting and steals and turns i over to Marceline Bay a letter from i Shirley to Jack. Clara learns of this, j and to protect Shirley, tells Marceline i that the letter is her own, not Shirj ley’s. j The voice of the star, the “whoopee” J shouts of the dance-dizzy girl friends, ! and the accompanying musical sounds j are brought forward with great clarity and distinctness in this all-talking film. ! In addition, another fine supporting j programme will be presented. The j talkie features will include a comedy | sketch by the Hebrew comedians, j Smith and Bale; a Pathe Sound News; i and Eddie Cantor in Ziegfeld’s Mid- ! night Frolics. New musical selections : | will bo played on the Wurlitzcr organ j iby Mr. Arthur G. Frost. j
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 768, 14 September 1929, Page 16
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369NEW REGENT Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 768, 14 September 1929, Page 16
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