NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 508, 10 November 1928, Page 15

NEW REGENT

BRILLIANT ENTERTAINMENT A well-balanced and varied programme of music, jazz and pictures is the delightful fare offered at the New Regent Theatre this week. The popular Stage Band is back in all its glory, augmented by a really brilliant dancing show from Sydney, trained by that capable ballet master, Maurice Diamond, For snappy and clever ballet work Mr. Diamond’s PLipils are unequalled, and the applause they receive at the New Regent shows that the audience appreciates their work. The performance is set going by the syncopation of “O’Kay” by the band and Mr. Guttridge, followed by the neat “Wooden Soldier Ballet.” Perhaps the most outstanding feature of all is the Indian Dawn Dance by Ivy Towle and Freddy Hodges, a most graceful act full of character!s-

tic poses. This is followed at rapid intervals by dance numbers from different members of the company, finishing up the pretty full 25 minutes with the snappiest of all—the Regent Varsity Ballet. In the main pictorial attraction on tho programme, Clara Bow makes her debut on the screen as a tragedian. The picture, “Ladies of the Mob,” is a raw slice cf the underworld, and Clara Bow’s work only makes it the more tense and terrible. W'ithout Clara Bow this picture would be fascinating; with her, it is lifted to the heights of one of the really great screen dramas of the underworld. The story tells of a little girl, Yvonne, always living in the slums, who loves as “her man” Ted, a hardened, successful bank-robber. They rob a bank together, but their descriptions are secured by the police and they slink off to California like hunted rabbits. The life of peaceful domesticity i* as enjoyable to Yvonne as it is detestable to Ted, and beaches to be on the job again. He plans one last mad robbery, but Yvonne won’t let him—she shoots him in the foot to save him from himself, and the last tragic scene shows them handcuffed and taken away to prison. This story of the woman’s side of the underworld’s losing battle with the law shows that, come what may, the ladies of the mob stand with their men. Richard Arlen plays “Ted” to the life and the whole production is most artistically fir $ .ed. The latest English, American ami Australian news is presented in the Gazette and a laughable comedy completes a most enjoyable programme.