AMUSEMENTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17437, 8 April 1931, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

THE REGENT “The Sea God” is an entirely new idea in talking pictures. For the first time action ami sound have been recorded on the bottom of the ocean. This feat was only obtained alter many weary heart-breaking months of incessant labor and risk. For this feature alone the production would be remarkable, blit it has in addition one of the most original plots screened. Although most thrilling, the story is quite within the hounds of reasonable fact. The big climax where Richard Arlen walks out of the sea clad in his diver’s dress and the hostile savages mistake him for a new kind ot god, actually happened years ago to a pearl diver named Emil Do Closay. Adventure piles upon adventure in this presentation. Richard Arlen plays the part of a reckless pearl trader who is willing to sail his schooner into the wildest cyclone to heat his rival. Fay Wray is," as usual, exquisite in her portrayal, but in this picture she gives a splendid exhibition of tense dramatic acting. Eugene Pallette is the bluff South Sea trader to the Bfe, ] u .avv of fist yet big of With the permission of the British Government the producers were able to make arrangements with a remote hill tribe to piny the part of the cannibals. Many of these savagus had never even seen'a white man, and the way they till their parts is naturally most lifelike. A. splendid programme ot foaturettes is also screened. TIIE MAJESTIC Ever since Warner Baxter appeared in “Old Arizona,” the picture-loving world lias clamored for another feature, of the same kind. At last it has come. In "Romance of the Bio Grande” one secs the same dare-devil laughter-loving Mexican one saw in “Old Arizona. Warner Baxter is a. delight as tlie iiery. impetuous Mexicanu. In this picture one sees him in a most romantic role, singing his way with his guitar into .the hearts of the fair and beautiful senorilas. Mona Maris is very dainty and her singing is a feature of Mm production. Mary Duncan, the Broadway actress, plays opposite Baxter, and her fine sense, of drama is given full scope. Antonio Moreno is a Mexican of the revengeful type, and he. gives a splendid performance. The story deals with that hectic period when the border of the Rio Grande was the, happy limiting ground of men who sought adventurous death and men who hid from the law. One sees the most clashing and reckless man of this whole band braving the guns of his enemies for the. smile of his adored one. Carefree and heart-whole, he makes love to three women at once and thereby brings all the trouble in tlie world about his head. Lovers of clean, wholesome, spirited entertainment, should enthuse over “Romance of the Bio Grande. ’ Bright featurettes support the star attraction. .