REGENT THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 10, 12 January 1929, Page 7

REGENT THEATRE.

From tho dizzy heights of the skyscraper, Blondy, the steelworker, looked down on the little chorus cirl ho was to love, but because life among the swinging girders and spluttering drills of a giant new building is a dangerous business, the course of true love ran anything but smooth. So in "The Skyscraper," which Is half of the doublo feature bill at the Regent this week, the audience is given thrills, tragedy, loveniaking, and very real humour, woven into an unusual picture, and excellently played by William Boyd, Alan Hale, and Sue Carol. In "Beau Broadway," Lew Cody and Ailccn Pringle have the leading parts in a talo of a flght promoter who was "bequeathed" the small daughter of an ex-hcavy-weiglit boxer. A richly-equipped nursery awaits the arrival of the "little lady," but hurried rearrangements have to. be made when a very attractive miss of some nineteen years arrives. Further complications arise when tho Beau's expensive lady friend, Yvonne Marcel, nnds how much in love the Beau is with his ward, but, fortunately for her peace of mind, she has a former lover-boxer, "Killer" Gordon, to whom she becomes engaged, and the Beau marries the pretty Mona. The realistic fight staged at Madison square is ono of the highlights of tho picture. "London After Dark," showing cabarets of tho great city, and a gazetto arc the other films. Music and dancing of other lands is brought to the theatre in the new stage band presentation, "Round the World." With Maurice Guttridge at the head of the orchestra and the Sydney Regent Ballet to dance appropriately to the music, the elaborately staged act met with great approval. Vivacious Stella Lamond and her songs was an added attraction, but particularly successful was tho dancing of Ivy Towe, and of Freddy Hodges, who "brought down the house" with his, amazing grace and agility. The high standard combination of film and vaudeville should make the programme very popular durintr tho week. "The Crowd," featuring Eleanor Boardman and James Murray, which comes to the Regent on Friday, takes in backgrounds from tho amusement piers of Venice,, California, to Coney Island, includes a honeymoon sequence at Niagara Falls, street scenes from one end of New, York City to the other, steamer excursions up the Hudson River, and dramatic action shot against the backgrounds of the great steel mills of Pittsburgh; Pennsylvania, the big Kodak factories of Rochester, the Loop district of Chicago, and the great automobile manufacturing plants of-Detroit, Michigan. , The story begins with the life of ail ambitious young clerk, employee of an institution which has hundreds more exactly like him. He becomes enamoured with a shop girl and tho . two romantically marry without thought of the future, spend a honeymoon at Niagara Falls, return to Now York and fall into, the rut occupied by so' many young married couples who fall to emerge from It despite ail their puny efforts against the circumstances which' life throws about them. On tho stage. "Dick Wilmington and His Cat," the famous London pantomime, will be staged under the direction of Ed. Warrington, with the Sydney Regent Ballet and a great cast.