NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 832, 28 November 1929, Page 14

NEW REGENT

“THE COCOANUTS"

The delightfully amusing com*“The Coeoanuts,” continues to d*h : audiences at the New Regent Thea" The locale of “The Coeoanuts' . Florida. The story or satire is cwhich ridicules with much hilarity •„ real estate boom, amid the sumptuo colourful environment of Palm Bea and Cocoanut. Grove. A debutante “wintering” in one of the exclus hotels with her socially ambitious an: And the girl and a poor hotel derail madly in love. So, of course, t> hotel clerk falls for the get-rich schemes with dire results, until tt ; happy ending! A slight plot, like all musical coir: dies; but an ideal one with opportune for an array of shapely, richly dres.v. girls and sumptuous scenes and s> In fact, a glittering vehicle wfcic serves primarily to introduce toAuci, land (the Ziegfeld star), Mary Eat:-, and the irresistible antics of the fee Marx Brothers.

The Marx Brothers are considered : many to be the funniest entertaineron the stage today; and they real" are. Their shows are always laug getters, and “The Coeoanuts” is u exception. A varied and exceedingly attract, short subject programme is alt shown. A fine quartet from “Kip letto,” a Pa the Review aud a talkcomedy, “Post Mortems,” are spec: features. CRYSTAL PALACE “GENTLEMEN OF THE PRESS “Gentlemen of the Press,” a fa*i: ating story of American n?wspa;life, is the chief attraction on thef.: programme at the Crystal Pak. Theatre. The cast is composed several Broadway favourites, include Katherine Francis, Charles Bußte and Betty Lawford. The film has been treated in a firished manner and the result is a spit: did production. An excellent budget of shorter fcu; ing pictures will support the chiefs:traction.