NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 808, 31 October 1929, Page 15

NEW REGENT

CLARA BOW ON SATURDAY | Only two more evenings remain for i Aucklanders to enjoy the amusing j comedy-drama now at the New Regent j Theatre. This is entitled “Nothing I But the Truth,” and is Richard Dix’s first all-talking picture. The story of “Nothing But the Truth” concerns four young men in a New York broker’s office. Three of them dare the other to tell nothing but the truth for 24 hours, then with the assistance of two girls spread a j net for him, to the amusement of the I audience. ! The Regent programme also in- ! eludes short talkie items and selections on the Wurlitzer by Arthur G. Frost. On Saturday next the Regent will j present Clara Bow’s latest and briglit- ; est film, “Dangerous Curves.” “Dangerous Curves,” the sweeping | loops of the aerial performers, the { somersaults of the bare-back riders, the action-packed circles of the five ! big rings under the “big top” of the 1 lirst all-talking authentic picture of I circus life. The greatest thriller for ; love, drama, glamorous colour and heart-throbbing life Auckland has ever I seen. Two acres under canvas: the “big I top” with a five-ring show in full j blast; 200 circus performers; an aerial ! ballot of 26 girls; riding acts, acrobats. tight-wire walkers, clowns, wild ; west shows; educated horses, ponies. | brass bands, all these are introduced in “Dangerous Curves.” The authentic sounds of the saw- \ dust lot —the “ballyhoo” of the side- ‘ shows, the shrill wail of the calliope, the barks of the pop vendors, the smack of the slap-sticks, the grandiloquent speeches of the ring master, the roars of the wild animals. A whole circus in celluloid —plus Clara Bow in a role that will amaze and gratify her every admirer. She weaves the wide band of personal pep and enthusiasm which runs through the play, making it bigger than the most supreme circus ever could be. They’ll see and hear her crying, and loving and performing dangerous stunts and talking the lingo of the “big top,” loving her man for love alone, and winning him after the teardrops. The Regent’s new programme will j also include several enjoyable short * talkie features.