NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 637, 13 April 1929, Page 15

NEW REGENT

“BROTHERLY LOVE’’ Stone walls don’t make a prison of the penitentiary that is shown in “Brotherly Love,” the current attraction at the Mew Regent Theatre, a new comedy feature for Karl Dane and George K. Arthur. In fact the walls and guards are only there to keep the crooks out, for in this laugh riot the gaol is a strictly collegiate affair with post-graduate courses in football and ukelele playing keeping the convicts busy. The story is a broad satire on “reform” prisons and coddling of convicts and shows Dane and Arthur behind the walls of “dear old Newberry” prison, where they are star members of the baseball brigade. Of course when the warden’s pretty daughter appears on the scene they both fall in love and stage a football duel for her hand. They both score touchdowns, but Arthur makes a forward pass to the fair lady’s heart and wins the game and her hand. Charles F. (“Chuck”) Reisner, the well-known comedy director, made this film. He has given Dane and Arthur a great opportunity, which they apparently tackled with relish. Jean Arthur (no relation to George) is the girl in the picture and the supporting cast includes Edward Connelly, Richard Carlyle and Marcia Hariss.

Scintillating with action and brimming with romance is “Stand and Deliver,” Rod La Rocque’s latest De Mille picture, which is the second feature on the programme. A dashing, colourful screen story of modern Greece, it reveals in fascinating style the experiences of an adventuresome young Englishman, who, after the war, missing the excitement of the battlefront, enlists in the Greek cavalry in quest of the thrills attendant to the stamping out of banditry in that country. La Rocque, as Roger Norman, has brought to the screen another delightful swashbuckling hero. The gist of the story is this: —Roger Norman, a Greek cavalry officer, in an attempt to save a Greek peasant girl from the evil advances of his commanding onicar, maims his superior. He becomes a fugitive and escapes with the girl, the latter admirably portrayed by Lupe Velez. The two are captured by outlaws, and the former is given his choice of death or of becoming a bandit. He accepts the latter alternative. Then the excitement starts and Norman experiences thrills a-plenty, all of which he shares with his audience. Interesting supporting films are also shown, and new music played by Mr. Maurice Guttridge’s Orchestra.