NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 690, 15 June 1929, Page 15

NEW REGENT

“INTERFERENCE” The Paramount all-talking picture, "Interference,” will toe the feature attraction at the New Regent Theatre from today. This talking picture is the first Broadway stage production filmed that features dialogue from beginning to end

There are four principal players well known to film fans in the cast. They are Clive Brook, Evelyn Brent, William Powell and Boris Kenyon. All of the

players, including tho supporting cast, have had previous

stage experience. It has been conceded by leaders of the film industry that “Interference” will make motion picture history in that it marks the first successful attempt to give a legitimate stage attraction just as presented on the stage without one iota of a change. Every speech heard in the stage production will be heard issuing from the Regent Theatre’s screen. It is a most notable achievement.

The play “Interference” was first produced in England where it graced the boards for two years. In the autumn of 1927 it was given its New York premiere and ran for nine months in that city. Roland Pertwee and Harold Dearden are the authors of the play, with the dialogue for the talking picture version begin prepared by Ernest Pascal.

Roy J. Pomeroy, for three years indulging in research and experimental work for Paramount Quality Sound pictures, directed the sound version of the film for Paramount. Pomeroy was the man who applied sound effects to the air epic “Wings,” which introduced sound in motion pictures.

“Interference” is a story of a woman scorned.

The New York “Times” said of “Interference”: “Through the painstaking r work of Roy J. Pomeroy, the film magij cian, the audible screen adaptation of I the play ‘lnterference’ is in many re- : spects so remarkable that it may ' change the opinion of countless sceptics concerning talking photoplays. The 1 vocal reproductions are extraordinarily I fine and the incidental sounds have j been registered with consummate ini telligence. . . . ; “As the picture, with excellent dic- ! tion. was unfurled, it became quite | clear that the Paramount officials had | learned something by the mistakes of j others.” i The Regent’s new programme will i also include a number of new short ' talkie features. The attractions will include a song by Eddie Cantor, a popular American entertainer, entitled "That Party in Person.” and a short lecturette by Madame Elinor Glyn, widely known as a writer of romantic stories, who will speak on “What Is ‘lt’?”