NEW REGENT
“THE VAGABOND KING’’ The romantic operetta, “The \ agabond King,” which is set in Paris in 1403, is being sung from the talking screen at the New Regent Theatre. The picture, which lias been adapted by the Paramount Studios from the stage presentation of the same name, has as its centra] hero the disreputable but immortal balladist, Francois Villon. Dennis King, a leading actor-singer of the American operatic stage, takes the part of the carefree poet, who becomes in turn the leader and saviour of his nation and the captor of a princess’s heart. At the time the story opens Paris is besieged by the Duke of Burgundy and Louis XI. is reduced to desperate straits by the imminence of disaster. Villon, the leader of the vagabonds of Paris, seems to offer some promise of ability to weld together the disunited power of the city. He is captured after an episode which renders him liable to the punishment of death, but the king offers him the throne of France for six days, sentence of death to bo carried out on the seventh. Villon accepts the offer and the way in which he saves himself and his country, and wins a royal princess’s heart and hand, provides a most romantic and enthralling story. Several bright talkie shorts are also being shown.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1008, 26 June 1930, Page 18
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221NEW REGENT Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1008, 26 June 1930, Page 18
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