REGENT THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 49, 28 February 1927, Page 5

REGENT THEATRE.

Starring Thomas Meighau, supported "by Kenee Adoree, Eileen Pringle, and- Wil"am Powell, "Tin Gods" is the feature which is'-now showing at the Regent Theatre. A rising young engineer, Roger Drake, marries Janet Stone. Soon afterwards a baby boy is born, but the wife neglects both son and husband for politics, until one fatal day the boy falls from an open window to his death. Drake, secretly takes to drink, and goes to South America to construct a bridge at DeEio. Taciturn and disagreeable,! Roger is the only man!unaffected by the: charms of Carita, a dancing girl. He sinks lower and lower until, stricken with black fever, he is nursed by r ita, and she makes a man jot 'turn . again; His wife, unsuccessful ,in politics, then arrives, and,Carita, taking •the. i./rong meaning from Drake's eagerness to nieet Kis^wife, leaps to her death from the bridge. Roger, to keep alive the one beautiful episode of his life, builds a chapel beside the bridge and visits.it each year. In the vaudeville portion of the programme, Gerardo and Adair, star dancers from the Capitol. Theatre, New York, combine acrobatics with artistry, such as no others have yet done in : this country. Clement May, the famous Dickens character actor, is also heard in a complete change-of programme; ,