NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 638, 15 April 1929, Page 13

NEW REGENT

“BROTHERLY LOVE” Football, as played in a, collegiate penitentiary, supplies the i'un motivation in "Brotherly Love,” now at the New Regent Theatre. It is a new Karl Dane-George K. Arthur laughmaker. In the new comedy feature, a broad satire on "reform” prisons where convicts hide when pardons are being given out, the football rivalry between leading gaols provides situations brimming with mirth and hilarity. The story concerns the love of a prison guard and a convict for the idealistic warden’s pretty daughter, a nurse in the gaol infirmary. Dane, as the guard, tries to eliminate Arthur, a convict, from his scheme of romance by having him pardoned on the eve of the big football match with the rival penal institution. Determined to be in the game to win for his "alma mater” and the girl he adores, Arthur seeks new felonies to commit. Complications then bring Dane himself into the toils of the law and he is sent to prison. When the big game is played within the prison walls Dane and Arthur fight a duel for the fair lady’s hand with touchdowns and tackles. They both win. but Arthur' gets the girl, played by Jean Arthur (no relation to George). Edward Connelly and Richard Carlyle are in the supporting cast, which also includes the University of Southern California football squads. In the courtyard of an abandoned Greek monastery a bandit gang is gathered. It is the band’s rendezvous. They are barbecuing a young lamb. Flaring torches throw fantastic shadows against the monastery’s towering walls. Men sit here and there in the flickering, changing light. Another group is gambling with cards. Such is one . of the most colourful settings of "Stand and Deliver,” Rod La Rocque’s new De Mille picture, which is the second feature on the programme. Greece, and the bandit uprisings Which harassed that country after the World War, provide a most interesting background for this story of the adventures of a. young Englishman in the service of the Greek cavalry. Lupe Velez, a young Mexican player of rare promise, plays opposite La Rocque, while others prominent in the cast are Warner Oland. Louis Natheaux and Clarence Burton. Excellent music is supplied throughout by the Regent Operatic Orchestra.