NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 416, 26 July 1928, Page 17

NEW REGENT

“SOMETHING ALWAYS HAPPENS”

Pola Negri’s great dramatic picture entitled, “The Secret Hour,” will be shown at the New Regent for the last time this evening.

The story Is laid in the orange-grow-ing country and tells of a girl who was undecided between two lovers, the one rich, and the other with youth on his side. . The first-class vaudeville entertainment of Florrie Le Vere and Lou Handman will also be presented for the last time this evening. Miss Le Vere is a singer, dancer and impersonator of no mean ability, and Mr. liandman plays and sings some of his own popular compositions. Commencing to-morrow the management is preesnting another big programme, a musical and vocal act of a very high class will be provided by Miss Hawn Assheton and Mr. Laszlo Schweartz, and the picture, “Something Always Happens,” starring the beautiful actress, Esther Ralston, will be screened. “Something Always Happens” is an unusual but enjoyable picture. The story is mystery, enlivened by farcical and mysterious situations, and distinctly different from anything the popular star of “The Spotlight” and “Love and Learn” has ever done. The plot centres about a young American girl, as jazz-mad as the rest of the modern fair sex, who becomes engaged to a young Englishman. In England she tires of the cut-and-dried existence and wants something to happen to her. Something does happen and action comes in abundant quantities. She becomes embroiled in a hunt for a notorious Chinese bandit, Chang-Tzo, played by Sojin, the Oriental star, and gets mixed up with a bandit gang.

“SHARPSHOOTERS” AT EDENDALE "Alias the Lone Wolf.” an exciting mystery melodrama, will be shown at the Edendale Theatre this evening. The major part of the action takes place on an ocean liner. The heroine. Eve de Montalais (Lois Wilson), is smuggling a valuable collection of jewels into the United States. The knowledge that Miss De Montalais has in her possession a king’s ransom in jewels is shared by a gang of desperate and unscrupulous thieves, who have taken passage on the same boat in order to filch them from her. Also on board is Michael Lanyard, "The Lone Wolf” (Bert Lytell), who is known as one of the most daring adventurers on the continent. "Sharpshooters,” a story of the American Navy at Morocco, will also be shown, starring Gorge O’Brien and Lois Moran. “SOMEBODY’S SON” AT EMPIRE "Surrender,” starring Mary Philbin and Ivan Mosjukine, will be shown this evening at the Empire Theatre. "Somebody’s Son,” the second attraction, stars Willy Fritsch, Lillian Hall Davies and Pauline Garon in a powerful and interesting story of a search for a king. "Rookery Nook” will be staged until Saturday evening, a performance being presented in the afternoon. On Monday next and on the three following evenings "A Cuckoo in the will be produced, and on the final four nights of the season "Thark” will be staged.