JOY AND JAZZ WEEK

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 136, 30 August 1927, Page 15

JOY AND JAZZ WEEK

REGENT’S NOVEL SHOW One week of irresistible jollity will commence at the New Regent Theatre on Friday week, when Joy and Jazz Week will be ushered in with all the jovial spirit of carnival. For this novel season the Regent, with customary enterprise, has arranged an extraordinary number of bright attractions, each one chosen for its suitability for such a joyous week. Variety is its keynote—variety in pictures, variety in vaudeville and variety in music. First, there will be one of the most colourful Paramount pictures of the year, “Cabaret,” with Gilda Gray. What film could be more appropriate for a joy and jazz session? Glorious golden Gilda Gray, as the dancing rage of the world is known, is hailed as the most fascinating exponent of modern dance hits on the stage and screen to-day. In “Cabaret” she has the ideal role, even though the bright scenes in the famous night club at which she appears are in deep contrast to the main story of the tinselled turmoil of life behind the closed doors of the night clubs and cabarets of the Great White Way. If you like the Charleston you will go into raptures over Gilda’s exhibition—if you don’t like it, you will assuredly be converted after seeing her and find yourself practising its intricate steps. The very title “Cabaret” suggests the carefree spirit of life and that is just what the picture, in which Gilda is supported by Tom Moore and Chester Conklin, radiates. Secondly, there will be Tilton and West, the Joy Boys of Vaudeville, who are also known as the fashion plate lads of the stage. They will provide a dashing act that has never yet failed to make a hit. The Regent’s new Operatic Orchestra will add to the fun, Maurice Guttridge having arranged all the latest and popular numbers for his splendid combination. The jazz entracte promises to be a riot. Eddie Horton, too, will join in the fun with jazz and joy at the Wurlitzer, and the Regent’s Ballroom orchestra and other special musicians will be called upon to augment the musical side of the programme. The Regent will confidently offer Joy and Jazz Week as the gladdest, merriest theatrical attraction of the year. The plan for this gay season is now open at the theatre, phone 46-SBS.