NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 923, 17 March 1930, Page 15

NEW REGENT

"THEIR OWN DESIRE” There is nothing the movie-going public tires, of so readily as seeing its favourite stars in the same type of roles. Consequently producing organisations whose every move is circumvented by public taste and demand, keep a wary eye on the scenarios presented for the use of their leading players with the avowed purpose of making sure that each one is different from the last. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer gives every indication of having followed this golden rule in its selection of “Their Own Desire” as a vehicle for Norma Shearer’s new all-talking picture which is now at the New Regent Theatre. “Their Own Desire” was adapted to the screen from the novel by Sarita Duller. The picture gives Miss Shearer an opportunity to give another new characterisation to the screen for her role of “Dally” is a far cry from that of the chorus girl of “The Trial of Mary Dugan,” or the sophisticated woman of “The Dast of Mrs- Cheyney.” The story concerns itself with a girl whose attitude toward life has been embittered through the lack of material congeniality between her father and mother. When she comes upon her father in the arms of another woman she takes her mother’s side and the two go away to a resort in the hope that a prolonged absence will eventually clear up things. Instead of being cleared, the problem becomes almost helplessly entangled when the daughter falls in love with a young man who subsequently turns out to be the son of “the other woman.” The unwinding of the complications makes for sufficient interest to satisfy the most hardened movie-goer. Robert Montgomery plays opposite Miss Shearer in her new picture. Lewis Stone, Relle Bennett, Cecile Cunningham, Helene Millard and Mary Doran are in the cast. The special programme of talking and singing featurettes includes a talking comedy by Harry Langdon, a singing and dancing revue in colour, introduced by Gus Edwards, harmony and songs by Ed and Dou Miller, also Clyde Doer and his saxophone band.