VAUDEVILLE AND TALKIES

Evening Star, Issue 20864, 6 August 1931, Page 7

VAUDEVILLE AND TALKIES

REGENT’S BILL FOR TO-MORROW Commencing to-morrow, tho management of the I’egent Theatre will present a J. C. Williamson celebrity vaudeville act in conjunction with the picture programme, which will undoubtedly be of great interest to picture patrons. Joy and Lazzeroni have come to New Zealand direct from the loading vaudeville theatres, and have just concluded a record-breaking season .in Auckland. Joy and Lazzeroni will present an act known as tho Skating Aviators, It is a spectacular and breath-taking act which is claimed to be all too short for a thrilled audience. The skating of both is perfect, and this allows for the execution of a series of dare-devil evolutions in which one slip means at least serious injury to one or both of the partners. The act is j)erformcd on a raised platform 10ft square, and in this small space Lazzeroni whirls at high speed on his skates, sending Joy floating through the air in a number of amazing gyrations. The culminating thrill is tho Whirl of Death, in which both are yoked neck to neck. Lazzeroni’s rapid skating in the small circle throws his partner in a giddy whirl about him. Faster and faster they twirl, holding the audience bound in a spell which is not broken until, With a graceful flourish, the act is finished. ‘Scandal Sheet,’ the main'picture, presents George Bancroft as a ruthless, unethical managing editor of a tabloid daily, whose creed is “If it’s news it get’s printed, no ‘ matter whom it hurts.’’

Dignity, pride, reputations fall before the withering blows _ delivered by tho stories he publishes in his paper. Brutal and belligerent, he defies even the owner of the sheet in seeking out and publishing stories about everybody and anybody, in spite of the heartbreaks that may, and often do, result. After a series of hectic news-gather-ing episides Bancroft is at last drawn into a_“yarn ” of his own making. Ho sees his own reputation at stake with the publication of this story, the news of hja,wife’s elopement with tho town’s leading banker, but ho remains loyal to his predacious code and orders that the “yarn” be run, with surprise snap-shot pictures of the elopers which his photographers have brought to him. But he tells his staff to prepare for a bigger story—tho slaying of the hanker at the hands of himself. Saying this, he stalks out of the office, never more to return. It is a story of hectic, high-tempoed lives, steeped in the rich pulsating drama of modern life and throbbing with action. Clive Brook, Kay Francis, Regis Toomey, Lncien Littlefield, and Gilbert Emery provide support for the star. Reserve at The Bristol.