NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 940, 5 April 1930, Page 14

NEW REGENT

LAST DAYS OF “UNTAMED" ! In “Untamed.” now at the New Rej gent Theatre, Joan Crawford has the role of a gorgeous beauty with the predatory instincts of a jungle cat. She stalks her man with relentless fury and cunning, unmindful and oblivious of what constitutes right or wrong in civilisation’s game of love. And when everything else fails, and

her nearest rival seems successful, she shoots him down in an amazing climax! This popu 1a r star of “Our Dancing Daughters” and other noteworthy MetroGoldwyn - Mayer pictures, enacts the role of an untamed, uncivilised girl who is

suddenly removed from her primitive jungle existence to wealth and luxury in a magnificent city mansion. Totally unfitted to cope with the wiles of her own sex, she is compelled to fight for the man she loves according to the law of the jungle. In “Untamed,” Miss Crawford reveals sensational dramatic abilitv. Featured in a large cast arc Robert Montgomery, Ernest Torrence, Gwen Lee, Holmes Herbert, John Miljan and Gertrude Astor. The remainder of the programme includes a talking comedy “Great Gobs,” selections by “Ukulele Ike,” lund

by Irving Aaronson’s “Commanders,” and the latest edition of Hearst’s Metrotone News. “It’s a Great I>ife,” which will be shown at the Regent next Tuesday, is the first talking and singing picture of the famous Duncan Sisters for M etro - Gofd wy n - M ayer. A capable cast supports the iDuncan Sisters in the new picture. Lawrence Gray plays the male lead. Other players include .led Prouty, Dudley Chambers, Willis Marks, Benny Rubin, Oscar Apfel, George Davis and George Periolat. • A distinctive feature of the new picture is the fact that it was filmed with technicolour sequences. This new process, which is making sweeping changes in the photographic end ot the moving picture industry, gives ar. entirely different character to costumes and scenery used in films. Mrs. Natalie Kalmus directed the technicolour work involved in the making of “It’s a Great Life.”