REGENT THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 34, 12 February 1929, Page 5

REGENT THEATRE.

"Shadows of tho Night" is the chief picturo at the Regent Theatre. Jimmy is au alert reporter wlio -takes his job seriously, even, to the extent of disguising himself as a waiter In the Dreamland Cafe, where the notorious gangster Feagan la hatching plans for the shooting of Sergeant O'Flaherty. In the cafe is a dancer whom Feagan 13 intimidating, and Jimmy champions her effort to go straight. Flash, living up to his name, nets a mcssa'go to the sergeant, but In tho ensuing police raid on the'dive Feagan disappears. The police-concentrate ou watching his houso, but Flash noses out bis real "hide-up" aud takes Jimmy'to It. Even then the crook wins, for the time being, and escapes as a corpse, duly attended by his gang in deep raou-niiig—and revolvers bandy. But the detective force lost a good man when Jimmy joined a paper, aud with his canine friend the reporter is in literally "at the death," for evidently Alsatians with their minds.made up are things to steer clear of, and Feagau needs no handcuffs when found. In the vaudeville suction Alec. Regan is an engaging comedian. The exotic star, Jetta Goudal, figures as r spy in "The Forbidden Woman," another excellent picture on, the bill. ' It is the tale of two brothers and one woman, and its denouement. Is of a startling simplicity quite new in this typo of film. The Regent Orchestra plays delightfully, and there is a budget of news from all over the world to open the entertainment.

Having made her debut as a star in "Hose Marie," Joan Crawford co-stars in "Four Walls" with that perpetual favourite, great actor, Irresistible lover, John Gilbert. Gilbert portrays the role of an underworld youth—he is just as convincing as a gangster as he was as a cavalier, as a dashing prince, as a soldier, as a-newspaper reporter in former roles. Miss Crawford as tho gangster's "girl" is just as fascinating; she responds to Gilbert's magnetism and ability with a lure and skill all her owu which makes It hard to decide which one likes best. "Four Walls" comes to tho Regent on^Frlday next. On the same programmo will be' "The Cameraman," in which Bustor Kcaton plays an apprentice newsreel cameraman in a hilarious series of adventures and misadventures in New York. He falls Into a Chinese Tong war, and off a boat during a Newport race; he figures in a fire and near riot,' gets walked over by a parade and drops oIT a four-story-building—all for_ the sake of laughter. The new Keaton comedy incidentally shows the inside workings of newsreel photography, and a pretty love story with' Marccliiic Day.' The production . lias been elaborately staged, with replicas nf sonic seven city blocks, and a complete replica of v Chinatown street with five hundred Oriental actors taking part in a hiacliiuo-gun affray. About.two thousand extras, altogether, were used in (liming a- street mix-up, a traffic jam, boat race scenes, and other incidentals to laughter.