NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 845, 13 December 1929, Page 16

NEW REGENT

NEW PICTURES TOMORROW Glorious with colour and music, the lieart-throbbing romance of Skid and Bonny that thrilled New York last season in the stage play, “Burlesque,” has been at the New Regent during the past week as the motion picture masterpiece, “The Dance of Life.” Paramount has taken this intriguing and highly interesting burlesque “wheel” and given to it all the possibilities and advantages modern science and art have contrived for the most perfect moving picture entertainment. This picture, together with its supporting items, will have its final screening this evening. The big new double-feature programme to be presented at the Regent from tomorrow will be headed by the talkie, “The Dummy,” a Paramount production, in which Ruth Chatterton, the principal of “Madame X,” has the leading role. She is supported by Fredric March, John Cromwell, Fred Kohler and other clever players. The story, a comedy touched with melodrama, deals with the strange adventures of an astute youth who pretends to be deaf and dumb in order to disarm the suspicions of a gang of kidnappers with whom he comes in contact. The second attraction will be “Single Standards,” a silent film, in which Greta Garbo is said to give a fine performance. Photographed mostly at sea, aboard a picturesque windjammer, Greta Garbo’s “The Single Standard” has many novel and charming departures from the conventional and the underwater love scenes in the submarine gardens are not only intriguing to the imagination, but quite thrilling as well. Pictorial beauty is to be found in abundance throughout the picture, but on no manner does it intrude or detract from the absorbing story unfolded and the work of the big supporting cast. In addition the Regent will present several new talking featurettes.