NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 935, 31 March 1930, Page 17

NEW REGENT

“UNTAMED” TOMORROW The current programme at the New Regent Theatre will have its final presentation there this evening. This is headed by Ramon Novarro’s fine drama of the Napoleonic era, “Devil May Care/* and includes a number of shorter items. Tomorrow the Regent will present a new picture entitled “Untamed” and starring Joan Crawford. The story revolves around Bingo Dowling, who has been brought up in the Central American jungles by her father. When he is killed by Bennock, a jungle rat who coveted the young woman, she becomes the ward of her father’s friend, Ben Murchison. Armed with the wealth of the elder Dowling’s oil leases, they start for the north, and Bingo falls in love with Andy McAllister, the first young white man she sees.

Back in New York, her love for Andy continues, but the young man fights marrying a girl with money, and Murchison, mistaking McAllister’s motives, schemes against him. After they had tried being apart for a year, McAllister finally tells Bingo ho loves her. This precipitates a tight with Gregg, who had been interested in the girl. The fight is staged in the drawing room of the Murchison home. Murchison starts men around the country club talking ,about McAllister as a man who would marry a wealthy girl and goads him to the point where he offers a cheque for £IO,OOO in the hope that the youngster would be insulted and clear out. Instead, McAllister grabs the cheque, proposes to Marge, who is crazy about him, and tells the whole crowd, in the presence of Bingo, that he would not marry Bingo Bowling. There is a flash from under Bingo’s coat and later Murchi- j son explains that the wound in McAllis- ! tor’s shoulder had been caused by a j gun that he didn’t know was loaded, j Old Murchison is filled with remorse, j but the two kids are blissfully happy, j for all the misunderstanding is ended j at last.