REGENT THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 34, 10 February 1927, Page 8

REGENT THEATRE.

Attired in full^ Indian costume, complete from -, head-dress of feathers and Deads to mocassins, and with weapons the American Red Indians who perform the 5> eCla» prologue tto '.'The Vanishing ■Kace, : the Paramount masterpiece which is no* showing at the Regent Th.atre, present a staking spectacle. In addition there is the melody of haunting Indian music, played by the Regent Orchestm, under Mr. M. Dixon. Its 'splendid dramatic intensity/its majestic and stupendous settings, and the wonderful story woven about the straggling remnants -of a noble, fast dying people, make "The Vanishing Race" a picture of ' superlative merit. The action.takes place in the Grand Canyon region, a region noted throughout the world for the majestic grandeur of its mighty valjeys. Nophaie, a Navajo Indian youth, sees that under the tyrannical rule of the whites his people are slowly drifting to stagnation in the reservations. He loves .Marian/,Warner, the little school teacher, and endeavours to gain knowledge to help him. in. his-fight for his fast disappearing •tribesmen." Then icomes the war, and Nophaie, with many of his blood-brothers, marches away. On the return of the straggling remnant of the detachment. Nophaie finds his people in open revolt. How he averts-disaster and works but his destiny is a dramatic tale, bold and noble. The principals of. the picture are . Richard. Dis, Lois Wilson, and Noah Beery. ■ ,