NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1055, 20 August 1930, Page 15

NEW REGENT

“THE BAD ONE” TOMORROW “Journey’s End,” the brilliant talkie based on the English play, will conclude its lons season at the New Regent Theatre tonight. In United Artists’ “The Bad One,” coming to the Regent tomorrow, which stars Miss Del Ilio in the first alltalking picture of her career, and which features her again in a striking role with Edmund Lowe, the actress is given ample opportunity to demonstrate the rhythmic grace of the celebrated Latin dance, the tango. In “The Bad One” Miss Bel Rio is seen in the greatest role she has ever portrayed on the screen—that of a beautiful entertainer in a Marseilles waterfront cafe, whose business is to make light love to the customers and forget them as quickly as they are out of her sight.

She falls in love with a roistering American sailor, and then .begins a rapid series of comic and dramatic situations which end in a spectacular gaol break. Though this is the star’s first talking picture, she already shows in the picture that she will attain even a higher position in the audible medium than she did in the old silent form.

Lowe is seen again in “The Bad One” in one of those swaggering roles for which he is justly famous. In combination with Bel Rio once more one is reminded of the vivid characterisations these players gave in “What Price Glory.”

The new programme will also in dude several new talkie featurettes.