NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 887, 3 February 1930, Page 15

NEW REGENT

“SO THIS IS COLLEGE” The breezy college picture, “So This is College,” starring' Elliott Nugent, Robert xvlontgomery and Sally Starr, again delighted the audience at the New Regent Theatre. Nugent and Montgomery share honours in this uproarious college picture, which goes with a tremendous swing from first to last with quantities of singing, dancing, ragging and fooling of every description. With Bally Starr, the little brunette coquette, they are fresh from Broadway favours, and as inseparable college chums —however tired we may be of college films —it must bo admitted that they make a first rate job of it. The continuity is remarkably good for tile type of story, and the backgrounds are just 0.K., especially in the football sequences. It wouldn’t be a college picture without a big game of some sort, which is nearly gummed up by the perfidy of the little brunette,, who is of that despicable type who draws on both boys to love her, and after wrecking (temporarily), their Damon and Pythias friendship, coolly exhibits a third lover, fortunately in time for the big football game to be saved by the fresh cementing of the friendship which carries their college to victory. The enormous crowds at the game, and its conduct must be “from life.” All the dialogue thi-oughout is snappy and full of “wisecracks,” the voices very tolerable, not too American. The Regent programme also includes a number of entertaining supporting items. There are musical selections by the Regent syncopators orchestra, solos on the Wurlitzer organ by Ewart Eyne, dancing by the girls known as “The Dancing Bolls” and finally a Pathe sound and colour production.