NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 771, 18 September 1929, Page 17

NEW REGENT

“THE WILD PARTY” “When better whoopee is made, Clara will make it,” might well have been the motto of the Paramount sponsors of Miss Bow’s latest confection of the screen, “The Wild Party,” which continues to delight the audiences at the New Regent Theatre. The story of “The Wild Party,” from from one written by Warner Fabian, calls for youth’s maddest flaunting of the conventions, and the action reaches many a crescendo pitch as Clara and her mates have their wild, unbridled flings in night clubs and at week-end parties. There is an undercurrent of true romance throughout the play which bubbles to the surface, triumphantly, in the last few scenes. It is an alltalkie. Fredric March furnishes the heroic male appeal in the play, carrying off the role of a college professor with a delightful intelligence. He is darkhaired and handsome, and his directors did well to choose him as the lover. A dazzling group of “baby stars” supports the inimitable Clara in true “hey-hey” style, furnishing an “.It” in the full curves of wholesome femininity. The talkie programme also includes a Path© Sound News, Eddie Cantor in Ziegfeld’s Midnight Frolics, and a comedy sketch by Smith and Dale. Arthur G. Frost plays a number of new selections on the Wurlitzer organ.