NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 688, 13 June 1929, Page 15

NEW REGENT

“INTERFERENCE” ON SATURDAY Only two more days remain for Aucklanders to see the all-talking programme headed by “Alias Jimmy Valentine,” at the New Regent Theatre. This thrillling picture disproves for once and all the old theory that a story loses dramatic strength when transposed from the stage to the screen. William Haines, as Jimmy Valentine, is a whimsical burglar who reforms for love of a girl, outwits a detective, and then, to save a child locked in a safp, opens the strongbox while the detective watches, facing gaol to save a life. Star, cast, story, direction, production, drama, thrills, comedy—“ Alias Jimmy Valentine” has them all. Clive Brook, the polished gentleman of the screen, is cast, as one of the four central characters in •‘lnterference,” the Paramount all-dialogue production coming to the Regent on Saturday. Brook essays the role of Sir John Mar lay, an eminent English surgeon, who narrowly escapes a tragic climax to his brilliant career. The other three characters with whom Brook appears are William Powell, Evelyn Brent, and Doris Kenyon. Before turning to the stage and screen for a career, Brook was a reporter in London. He became interested in elocution, and gave up his career as a newspaper man for the study of the art. This naturally led him to the stage, and he appeared in several English stage productions. Screen offers followed. and after working in several English pictures he was taken to America to appear in the films.

His most recent picture for Paramount was “Forgotten Faces,” in which he registered an emphatic personal success. He was 'then cast in the important role of his present picture, and has won additional praise wherever the film has been shown. “Interference” was adapted to the screen from the stage play of the same name. It was presented in Kngland for two years, and enjoyed a successful run in New York for nine months. LiOthar Ylendes, the famous German director, handled the direction of the screen version for Paramount. The production offers each of the four central characters equal opportunity for performing stellar work, and each of them has previous stage experience in preparation for this fine talking production.