NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 837, 4 December 1929, Page 17

NEW REGENT

LAST DAYS OF THE “COCOANUTS”

“The Cocoanuts,” the Paramount musical comedy show which is at the New Regent Theatre, sends tho audience into roars of laughter at the mad antics of the Four Marx Brothers,” who are starred in the show. But everyone is also charmed with the wonderful dancing in the picture, the ballet being perfect and the solo dancing and eccentrics something worth looking at. Then there are the lilting melodies from the tuneful ear of Irving Berlin, who was responsible for the lyrics and music. The dancers are some of the most famous ballets of America, and their work calls forth rounds of applause as they tread in faultless step to the intricacies of the ballet, both jazz and classic. The singing of Mary Eaton, whose lyric notes are heard to advantage in “When My Dreams Come True,” is excellent. She is one of the musical comedy stars of Broadway, and for a long time one of the stars of the world-famous Ziegfeld Follies that we have often heard so much about. Dorothy Revier, native daughter of San Francisco, plays the most important role of her brilliant screen career in “The Dance of Life,” the Paramount picturisation of the popular stage hit, “Burlesque,” which will show at the Regent Theatre, starting next Saturday. Miss Revier joins Hal Skelly. lead in the stage production, and Nancy Carroll in “The Dance of Life.” She recently was seen opposite Douglas Fairbanks in “The Iron Mask.” John Cromwell and Edward Sutherland, who recently collaborated on “Clo4l# Harmony,” made “The Dance of Life.”