NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 672, 25 May 1929, Page 15

NEW REGENT

LON CHANEY ON MONDAY This evening will see the final screening at the New Regent Theatre of the part-talkie picture, “The Shopworn Angel,” starring Nancy Carroll and Gary Cooper, together with the supporting short ‘talkie” features. On Monday the Regent will present “West of Zanzibar,” a sound synchronised picture starring Lon Chaney. Lon Chaney’s past triumphs in “The Road to Mandalay,” “Tell it to the Marines,” “The Unknown.” “London After Midnight,” “Laugh, Clown, Laugh;’ etc., now give place to the greatest drama of the Congo jungle ever brought to the screen, in which “the man of a thousand faces” achieves his masterpiece of characterisation. Set in a surrounding of stark terror, its dramatic story - _ ■

>f a terrible revenge that, like a Frankenstein, devours its creator. ‘West of Zanzibar” has elements never before seen on the screen. Weird and fantastic rites of voodoo devil worshippers in the heart of an African jungle; the strange spell

of a sinister paralyzed “white voodoo” who, with tricks and illusions, rules tribes of superstitious and savage natives; a grim chase through the Dark Continent on a relentless mission of revenge: these are the dramatic high-lights against which a wonderful love story is told. Chaney plays “Dead Legs Flint,” former stage magician, who, paralyzed in a fight with the man who stole the love of his wife, sets out to trail him through the wilds where his quarry has taken refuse as an ivory trader. Lionel Barrymore plays “Crane,” the enemy in the story, and Mary Nolan, who will be remembered as the heroine of “Sorrel and Son,” appears as the heroine, daughter of the revengecrazed magician! Warner Baxter plays the renegade physician whose love for the girl leads him to ultimate regeneration.

An excellent supporting programme will also be presented on Monday.