NEW REGENT
“THE VAGABOND KING” “The Vagabond King,” which is continuing its successful season at the New “Regent Theatre, proves definitely the suitability of a romantic operetta l'or the talking screen. The production is acted in a manner befitting the martial and romantic nature of the piece, and has as its background the changing scenes of Paris in the fifteenth century. The* central figure of the romance is the disreputable chief of the vagabonds of Paris, who became King of France for six days, faced with the prospect of execution on the seventh. Scenes of the underground dens of the vagabonds and of the rabble army which marched upon the Burgundians present in an unforgettable manner the history of the period. The romantic element is provided by the love of Villon, condemned to die for an attempt to weld together the disunited rabble of the city, for a royal princess. Dennis King, a leading principal recruited from the American operatic stage, gives a line interpretation of the renegade, and opposite him is Jeannette Macdonald, seen in Auckland last in “The Dove Parade.” A splendid supporting programme of shorter talkies is also being shown.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1010, 28 June 1930, Page 14
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193NEW REGENT Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1010, 28 June 1930, Page 14
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