REGENT THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 100, 30 April 1927, Page 7

REGENT THEATRE.

"Tho Canadian Pioneer," a story of tho wheat lands of Canada, in which Thomas Meighan plays tho part of Frank Taylor, n struggling farmer, is tho star attraction at tho .Regent Thentro this week. Taylor works for his friend Marsh, and there moots Marsh's city-bred sister Nora, who m!(il VV 1'""- 1? «>f life in tho interior hoi brothers homely wifu, and wishing to leave his house takes the only chance ?[ escape and quarries Taylor. Harvesti«B being finished, Taylor leaves for his own shack, taking his wifo with him, nml their experiences together during a venr of mnrncd life mnko tho second half of in© picture. Itoiu being im ineompotcnt shrmkniK housekeeper, Nora leurns to bo ..f 1*"1; I<>V »'X wife, and Frank is chastened from n contemptuous, bullying overlord to an adoring lover Thn •upportma, pictlire* «ro a ga/ette and SiH. C?h° UlC"i- CIlcU Of. Whic, h fonml f «vouf W i VL° nU(IIc!KC- who also greatly cui»* t i n <lmuslnK contortions of tho litgent ballet engnged in tho "Blank Bottom. Mish Kathleen Boylu and Miss baiJio l'awcett were tho soloists. Tlio ballet .improves each week, but is still lacking in combination and. pop. Tho musical side of the programme was, ns usual, excellent, tho overture "William Toll" being accompanied by realistic lightning ,Co^;<,,- ?' 10 ontr'neto was a trombone solo, "Sliding Jim." Stirring days of the French and Bed Indian wars, when the Kronch colonies were menaced hy the French and their wiviigo, naked allies, form (ho colourful background to a romantic adventure story in "Winners of the Wilderness," coniMiu next Friday to the Regent Theatre. Tho leading players avo Tim M'Coy nml Joan U'nwford, who nppenrs as the daughter of the coniundant of a frontier foil.. Tho enst introduces several famous figures of that period, including George Washingtori, as a young major iv (ho Kervico of tlio British Crown, Captains Gage and Gates, ,the former a noted soldier mid tho latter to become a famous national patriot.