NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 919, 12 March 1930, Page 15

NEW REGENT

“THE HOLLYWOOD REVUE” John Gilbert, Marion Davies and Norma Shearer* are included in the pageant of stars and near-stars who appear in “The Hollywood Revue,” Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s huge singing and dancing motion picture spectacle which is now playing at the New Regent Theatre. Almost everybody at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio, except possibly the gateman, seems to be part of {he personnel of this musical extravaganza, which is said to be patterned after the more ambitious of the New York revues. Among the stage and screen celebrities who will be seen in the picture are Buster Keaton, Bessie Love, Charles King, Anita Page, Joan Crawford, William Haines, Marie Dressier, Polly Moran, the Brox Sisters, Cliff Edwards (Ukulele Ike), the Albertina Rasche ballet, the Rounders. Natacha Nattova, Gwen Lee, Lionel Barrymore, Karl Dane, George K. Arthur. Stan Laurel. Conrad NageU Jack Benny, and others. -Lewis Stone plays another misunder-stood-husband role as Norma Shearer’s father in “Their Own Desire,” which is coming to the New Regent Theatre as a new Metrd-Goldwyn-Mayer alltalking picture on Friday. Stone won his first laurels upon the screen in parts of this nature, but recently has been seen in more tragic characterisations in “Madame X,” “The Trial of Mary Dugan” and “Wonder of Women.” Robert Montgomery appears in' the part opposite Miss Shearer in her new starring vehicle and the suporting "last includes Belle Bennett, Helene Millard, Cecile Cunningham, Mary Doran and June Nash. Joan Crawford will never complain of the heat any more. She has just returned from two weeks high in the San Jacinto mountains making exteriors for her new talkie, “Montana.” The locEile was at a point 5,000 feet above sea level and the temperature—-well, Joan claims it never went any higher than zero.