NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 840, 7 December 1929, Page 20

NEW REGENT

“THE DANCE OF LIFE” "The Dance of Life” is the ultimate in perfection in the motion picture medium. It has everything that makes for thrilling, gripping entertainment—jx mmantic love story of backstage life, burlesque sequences, dancing a gorgeous “Follies” revue in colour. It is l’aramount’s master production made 1 rom the remarkably successful stage play, “Burlesque” and will show at the New Regent Theatre from today. Hal Skelly, who originated the role of skid in the stage production, con-

tinues in this part in the motion picture production. Nancy Carroll, redhaired beauty of “dose Harmony” and “Abie’s Irish Rose,'* has the other featured role. The cast includes such stage and wreen favourites as Dorothy Revier, Ralph The&dor, < ’harles I>. Brown,

i mines xj. crown, Al St. John and May Boley. A spectacular revue scene, with lavish costumes, brilliant settings and SO beautiful girls, is shown entirely in colour by the Technicolour process. The story takes one behind the scenes in a burlesque theatre and follows the love affair of two interesting ■performers throughout a series of events which takes one of them to the Broadway circuit and the big revues. Six original song hits were written tor the production, and many old-time nnd popular songs are heard throughout the picture. New dances, originated by the leading dance masters of America, are seen for the first time in “The Dance of Rife.” Two of the greatest directors of stage and screen productions, John Cromwell and Edward Sutherland, makers of “Close Harmony,” collaborRted for this picture. Then to add to an already excellent programme there will be screened a brilliant collection of talkie featurettes. BAND AT ZOO TOMORROW The Municipal Band will give its usual Sunday afternoon performance at the Zoological Park tomorrow at 3 o’clock. A nicely-varied programme will include the overture “Nabuco,” selections “The Mikado” and “Lucia di ! *ammermoor,” Ed. German’s “Nell Gwyn” dances, bright marches, hymn tunes, and other tuneful items. “LOVE HUNGRY” AT GRAND Something new in theme and plot is furnished at the Grand Theatre, where Love Hungry” is showing with Lois Moran in the featured role. It is a happy, joyous comedy romance of youth and a fascinating and revealing story of the inner workings of a metropolitan newspaper office, especially as it applies to the “sob sisters.” In this c ase the “sister” is a man played with humour and sympathy by Lawrence Gray. It is his job to give and write advice to the lovelorn. But as usual lie finds it is much easier to tell others what to do than to do it himself. Lois Moran is cast as a little chorus girl who listens sceptically to what he has to tell her and then proceeds to prove to him that he does not know a thing about the subject. Rex, the wonderful natural horseactor, does some remarkable acting in tho second feature entitled “The Devil Horse.”