NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 826, 21 November 1929, Page 15

NEW REGENT

“THE COCOANUTS” Sound has more than doubled the j ■ effectiveness of mystery melodrama in ' i pictures, according - to Howland V. I.<ee, j veteran Paramount director, who made the all-talking thriller, “The Mysteri- ! ous Dr. Fu Manchu” which is now’ drawing to the close of its season at the New Regent Theatre. “The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu,” the famous Sax Rohmer story, has J been made to live on the screen j through the sound medium. The j j atmosphere of mystery and dramatic j realism that permeates the story is considerably heightened by the audibility of the accompanying sounds and dialogue. The current programme a 1; the Regent, which also includes a number of short talking and singing featu.r«ttes, will be shown until Friday next. There is a musical comedy on the screen that can only be seen in the flesh on Broadway, and it is coming to the Regent on Saturday. There has never been anything quite like it on the screen, and everyone will enjoy the melody of Irving Berlin and the merry antics of the Four Marx Brothers, who are presented by Paramount in the original stage production that made them famous and made the Xew Yorkers' gladly pay thirty shillings for seats. In addition to these four comedians, the like of which have never before been seen in this part of the world, there is Mary Eaton and Oscar Shaw, themselves head-liners in musical comedy on Broadway. All these will be seen in “The Cocoanuts,” a merry farce on the real estate boom in j Florida. All Auckland will laugh with the i comedy and hum the lilting melodies | of this Paramount all-talking and singing musical show. The London “Daily Express” said, j “ ’The Cocoanuts’ is so good, it must j be heard to be believed.” Saturday’s programme will also in- j elude several new all-talkie short