NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 964, 6 May 1930, Page 15

NEW REGENT

TWO FINE TALKIES Youth of all ages of civilisation have suffered from the complaint known by the common term of love. It is not new or original, and all kinds of men are apt to be affected. But to find a cure for this, many of the ages produced love philtres, and other concoctions designed to bring the lady or man of your affection to you. But what has all this to do with the picture? you might ask. In “The Love Doctor,” the latest Paramount picture at the New Regent Theatre, Richard Dix as the love doctor himself, administers a love cure to one of the ailing young men in the picture. Dix is a doctor without practice and a confirmed bachelor, despite the efforts of Miriam Seegar to trap him. He avows he will never fall in love, but when June Collyer comes for a job, he gives her one, although he knows there is nothing to do, and he has no patients to attend to. He doesn’t know it, but he has fallen in love.

The second big talking attraction on the Regent’s new programme, “Love Comes Along,” is a splendid romantic tale of South America and a stranded chorus girl. Bebe Daniels repeats her success of “Rio Rita,” in the leading role and sings a number of new songs. She is accompanied by Lloyd Hughes as the hero, a sailor who rescues her, Ned 'Sparkes, Lionel Belmore, Evelyn Selbie, Alma Tell and Montague Love as the villain.

Sixteen stage and screen celebrities make their talking picture debuts in “The Trial of Mary Dugan,” MetroGold wyn-Mayer’s 100 per cent, dialogue dramatic special, which opens at the New Regent Theatre on Saturday.

Norma Shearer, hailed by critics as “the girl with the 100 per cent, talkie voice,” heads the all-star cast. Featured with her are Lewis Stone, H. B. Warner and Raymond Hackett. Lilyan Tashman, Olive Tell, Adrienne d’Ambricourt. Mary Doran, Dewitt Jennings, Wilfred North, Landers Stevens, Myra Hampton, Wescott Clark. Charles Moore, Claude Allister and others appear.