NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 865, 8 January 1930, Page 15

NEW REGENT

“THE UNHOLY NIGHT” TOMORROW * Why- Bring- That Up?” the typically merry talkie comedy by the Two Black Crows, will have its final screening at the New Regent Theatre this evening. The remainder of the programme will also be changed after tonight. Dorothy Sebastian, famous for her work in “Our Dancing Daughters” and other hits of the silent pictures, has the leading feminine role in “The Unholy Night,” Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s weird all-talking filmisation of Ben Hechfs famous mystery story, “The Doomed Regiment,” which is coming to the New Regent tomorrow. The new story, directed by Lionel Barrymore, is a grim mystery drama of London, concerning a group of British officers and a mysterious crime in their midst. Miss Sebastian plays a Eurasian girl, daughter of an officer in the regiment, who works an uncanny influence during the course of the plot. It is an intensely dramatic role, different from any in her entire career. The cast in the new picture is a very exceptional one, including Roland Young, the British stage star whom Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer have signed to a long-term contract as a result of his amazingly fine work in “The Unholy Night”; Ernest Torrence, Sojin, and the Australian actor. Claude Fleming. Tomorrow will also mark the first appearance of Ewart Lyre, master organist, who is coming specially from Canada to play the Regent’s “Wurlitzer” organ.