REGENT THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 32, 9 February 1929, Page 7

REGENT THEATRE.

Although Lawrenco Gray and Louiso Lorraine play a large part in tho success of "Shadows of tho Night." the chief pi.cturo tin's week at tho Regent Theatre, it is Flash, the wonder dog, who is the real hero of tills underworld drama, who finds clues when police and Press aro batl'led, and who wins tho admiration of all through his bravery and sagacity. Jimmy is au alert reporter who takes his job seriously, oven to tho extent of disguising himself as a waiter in tho Dreamland Cafo, where the notorious gangster I'cagau is hatching plans for tho shooting of Sergeant O'Flahcrty. In tho cafo is a dancer whom Feagan Is intimidating, and Jimmy champions her effort to i;o straight. Flash, living up to his name, sets a messago to the sergeant, but in the ensuing police raid on the dive Feagau disappears. Tho police concentrato on watching his house, but Flash noses out his real "hlde-up" and takes Jimmy to it. Even then the crook wins, for the tlrno being, and escapes as a corpse, duly attended by his gang in deep mourning—and revolvers handy. But tho detectlvo. force lost a good man when Jimmy joined a paper, and with his canine friend tho reporter is in literally "at the death," for evidently Alsatians with their minds mado up are tilings to steer clear of, and Foagan needs no handcuffs when found. In the vaudeville section Alec. Hcgan is an engaging comedian with a host of friends in Wellington, and judging by tho hearty applause last night most of them were In the theatre to mark his return. Ue sang "Just Like a Melody," "Sonny Boy," and

"I Just Koll Along," but "Fifty Million Frenchmen" was his best number. Recalls and even a speech were obtained before Mr. Began was allowed to go. Tho exotic star, Jeta Goudal, figures as a spy In "Tho Forbidden Woman," another excellent picture on tho bill. It is tho talo of two brothers and ono woman, and its denouement is of a startling simplicity Quito new in this type of Dim. Victor Varconl and Joseph Schildkraut are tho male leads, and tho action takes place in Paris and Morocco, both places making suitable backgrounds for tho passionate Jetta, her loves, and. her deceits. Tho Itegent Orchestra plays delightfully during tho evening, and there is a budget of news from all over the world to open tho entertainment.