REGENT THEATRE,

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 147, 23 June 1928, Page 7

REGENT THEATRE,

The principal attraction in a double-feature programme which commenced screening at the Kegent last night is "Feel My Pul3e," a fastmoving comedy in which Bebe Daniels makes wlint is admittedly the greatest hit of her career. Bebe plays the part of a society girl who. under her father's will, ia required to lead a "germ free" life until she is 21, and during that timo she is surrounded by a bevy of doctors and attendants who minister to her for a host of imaginary, ills, the ch\of of which is a supposedly weak heart. Upon attaining her majority, however, the girl passes into the care of her second guardian, an uncle from Texas, and he soon diagnoses her real trouble. His prescription is "romance and adventure," both of which she finds in plenty when she arrives at a sanitarium, which is really a rum-runners' base, where her heart, although beating safely through a succession of thrilling adventures, fails to weather the romantig dose of the prescription. Packed with laughs, the picture goes with a swing from the start to the exciting climax. The supporting roles are played by Richard Arlen and William Powell. The other picture, "The Pioneer-Scout," is a tale of the covered wagon days of1 '49. Fred. Thompson, with-his wonder horse Silver King, plays the title role, and he is called upon to rescue from the hands of an unscrupulous renegade the beautiful granddaughter of an aged pioneer. The picture is full of action, and not the least exciting episode is a race between the wagons and teams of the rival outfits. • The Regent Operatic Orchestra, under the direction of Mr. Ivor Fosello, plays a variety of selections to. suit every taste. "CHANG." "Chang," the great picture to be shown at tho Regent Theatre next Friday, is a drama with suspense, comedy moments, and a story. It is a drama produced with natural actors in their own environment, living the story of their lives, and their struggle for existence. "The story which we have set in the jungle," says the director, >"is the story of people surrounded by a super abundance of food. There Is constant menace that this teeming vegetable and animal life will overwhelm the humans struggling against it. On this is our story built. We chose a family living in the jungle for our central character?, and the drama of their life is the drama of the picture, stark, real, tense. In photographing the lives of these people, wo always kept the dramatic values in mind, and believe that we have made a picture equalling in drama anything made in a studio." It is all marvellous melodrama, a- human story, set against the pitiless jungle background, with intimate glimpses of wild animals that baffls description.