REGENT’S NEXT CHANGE

Evening Star, Issue 20572, 26 August 1930, Page 7

REGENT’S NEXT CHANGE

• DYNAMITE • ON FRIDAY Once called by critics the “ bizarre Cecil B. De Mille,” it appears that the producer-director is about to reclaim that title in ‘ Dynamite,’ which comes to the Regent on Friday. It is his first talking picture, and presents girls, gowns, and gaiety of the frivolous sort, although his early reputation wes made with this type of material. ■ ■ ‘ Dynamite ’•'•is said to have food tor the eye in two particular sequences, one at a country club, tho other m the home of Cynthia, the feminine lead. The country club sequence finds Kay Johnson and Julia Faye racing in the sensational new “ aero-wheels to determine whether Miss Johnson shall pay IOO.OOOdoI or 200,000d0l for Miss Fare’s husband. Conrad Nagel! To provide tho dramatic leavening for this highlv modern situation, Do Millo shows Charles Bickford being condemned to death and later a marriage of Bickford to Miss Johnson on the eve of his execution. How Bickford' escapes death, and what happens afterwards at a party in Cynthia s home, and in tho coal mine of which tho lead is gang boss, completes the dramatic framework .of this original It is evident, therefore, that ‘ Dynamite ’ is of tho typo of ‘ Manslaughter,’ ‘ Male and Female,’ ami ‘ Why Change Your Wife!' 1 rather than ‘The Ten Commandments,’ ‘ King of Kings, and ‘ Tho Godless-Girl,’ more recent De Millo productions.