NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 996, 12 June 1930, Page 17

NEW REGENT

“CHASING RAINBOWS” The current programme at the New Regent Theatre will have its final presentation there this evening. This includes the two talkies, "Not So Dumb,” the latest comedy-drama starring Marion Davies, and "The Awful Truth,” an unusual drama starring Ina Claire. Sixteen dressing-room settings were constructed for "Chasing •Kainbows,” Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s new picture of the life behind the scenes of a travelling musical troupe. featuring Bessie Love and Charles King, which is coming to the Regent tomorrow. Four theatres are pictured in the story, with four sets of dressing-rooms for the quartet of the troupe’s principals. Almost the entire action of the picture takes place in the back-stage regions of the four theatres, and the dressing-rooms a!re as different in size, furnishings, and appearance as are the show houses in which they are located. Many of the most pathetic scenes of the story take place in the concrete cubbyholes assigned as dressing quarters. Charles ("Chuck”) Riesner, who is directing the picture, is a stickler lor accuracy of detail. He personally supervised the furnishing of each set to ensure four theatres which were utterly different in appearance both back-stage and "out front.” In addition to the four principals, of the picture’s travelling troupe, the "Chasing Rainbows” cast includes Jack Benny as the stage manager; Marie Dressier as the character woman; Polly Moran as the wardrobe mistress; George Jv. Arthur as a chorus boy; Gwen Lee as one of the troupe’s prima donnas; Toucca Troubetskoy, Nita Mart an. and Eddie Phillips. A chorus of 150 girls and men participate in a huge revue scene which was filmed in technicolour. Hollywood with all its foibles, heartbreaks, tinsel and comedy is pictured by those who live there in "Show Girl in Hollywood,” a First National and Vitaphone production starring Alice White. In this picture Hollvwood Pokes fun at itself, raises hearty laughs at its own expense, and opens the studio gales for a long peep at how movies are made.