"PARADISE FOR TWO”

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 89, 6 July 1927, Page 15

"PARADISE FOR TWO”

REGENT ON FRIDAY “Paradise for Two,” a rip-roaring comedy-drama that will send any audience into spasms of laughter, opens at the Regent on Friday next. The ever-pleasing Richard Dix as Steve Porter, the handsome and affluent young bachelor, who never can say no to the pretty youjjg things who panhandle him for money, adds another ray of light to his shining star of popularity. Other peculiar problems that Dix has to face in this newest starring role of his are a fortune that is not his unless he gets married, and he doesn't want to get married, an irate uncle with a lock on the Porter inheritance and who insists that the key to the strong box is a wedding ring for Richard, and a pretty girl, Sally Lane (Betty Bronson), with whom he falls in love after hiring her to pose as his wife. There are complications to the plot that form situations to make an audience hold its sides in laughter. But there’s pathos enough to add spice to the comedy and bring it out to better advantage. Andre Beranger as Maurice, the stage producer, and Edmund Breese as Uncle Howard, in their able character interpretation add much to make the picture as fine as Dix has ever done.