NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 884, 30 January 1930, Page 17

NEW REGENT

“SO THIS IS COLLEGE" * The current programme at the New Regent Theatre, which has been such an attraction during the past few days, will have its final screening this evening. This includes the splendid talking drama, “The Virginian,” starring Mary Brian, Gary Cooper, and Richard Arlen, also a number of supporting items. There is something about college—its sentiments, traditions, loyalties, rivalries and enthusiasms —that makes any picture using a college campus for its setting appeal to theatre-goers of every sort. Sam Wood must have had this in mind when he made “So This Is College” for M etr o - Goldwy n - Mayer, a fast, rollicking comedy about campus life, interspersed with dramatic moments and coming to a smashing climax during: the big football game. The campus comedy drama was filmed on the grounds of the University of Southern California, the first university to be. used as the locale for a. moving picture. The film shows picturesque views of the tree-lined campus, he college buildings fraternity row and a nLimber of interesting centres of school activity. Those to whom the life of a college freshman is a deep mystery, will be given an eye-opener in this smart little collegiate comedy, which traces the multifarious experiences the poor newcomer undergoes before he reaches the full-fledged manhood of his senior year when he immediately starts bullying the next batch of incoming yearlings. Highlights in the all-talking, singing and dancing picture, which comes to the Regent tomorrow, are a football scene taken in the U.S.C. stadium, a spectacular bonfire rally, filmed at night, a caterpillar race, something new in sport circles, and a lot of catchy tunes which are sung throughout the picture.

LOLA LANE, not long ago the toast of Broadway, who is now appearing in several Fox Movietone productions. HAL SKELLY, who repeats his success in ‘‘The Dance of Life,” in the spectacular stage film. “ BEHIND THE MAKE-UP.”