NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1020, 10 July 1930, Page 15

NEW REGENT

“THE. GIRL SAID NO” The final screening will be given at the New Regent Theatre today of the splendid double-feature talkie programme which has been delighting audiences recently. This includes “Honey,” starring Nancy Carroll, and “Children of Pleasure,” starring Lawrence Gray. “The Girl Said No,” William Haines’s new >letro-Goldwyn-Mayer all-t&lking picture, which; will open at the New Regent Theatre tomorrow, is said to be as fine as “Alias Jimmy Valentine,” and deals with the adventures of a 3'oung man facing the carlj' stages of busi ness life. Haines plays the early scenes with the same gusto he exhibited in “Alias Jimmy Valentine.” and is hammered by responsibility and hard work, until ho becomes a real business man. The “rescue,” with several hilariously comic angles, the scenes in the brokerage office, showing a typical Wall Street plant in actual operation, the touching family scenes, giving intimate details of his home life, and the delicious clowning with the heroine, at the night club, are among the highlights of the picture. The supporting cast of “The Girl Said No,” includes Leila Hyams, last seen opposite Haines in “Alias Jimmy Valentine”: Francis X. Bushman, jun., the popular comedy team of Polly Moran and Marie Dressier, Clara Blandick, William Janney, Junior Coghlan, Phyllis Crane and William V. Mong.

The second attraction on the Regent programme will introduce Ann Harding, the fascinating Broadway star, who, in spite of her youth, has had an eventful career in both stage and screen experience. Her admirers are countless, and she is hailed as the new screen discovery in Hollywood. Youth, charm and vivacity come with this fascinating young lady and her role as Vera Kessler in “Her Private Affair” enables her to rise to stellar heights.