NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1023, 14 July 1930, Page 15

NEW REGENT

TWO FINE TALKIES Not since he appeared in “Alias Jimmy Valentine” have we had so good a picture as “The Girl Said No” from William Haines. It is now at the New Regent Theatre. Leila Hyams, the girl who played opposite him in the former

film, is the girl who says “No” very emphatically until the end, when her love makes her ,yield # and Mari© Dressier and Polly Moran, two favourite laugh - producers, help Haines to keep the mirth bubbling over. A human story, Haines is seen as a

Leila Hyams young man making his way in the business world, starting out as a very fresh young man, but becoming subdued when his father dies and the responsibility of running a homo for the family devolves on his shoulders. Tho apparent hopelessness of his love affair gives the theme a highly romantic flavour. This is ono of the most enjoyable talkies in months. That Ann Harding has paptured screen audiences as thoroughly as she won tho affections of New York theatre-goers was demonstrated by the enthusiastic reception accorded this beautiful blonde actress at the Regent on Saturday, where her second Rathe dialogue feature, “Her Private Affair,” is being shown as the second attraction. ROXY “THE MELODY MAN” Jazz exponents have intimated that tho classics are well worn out and positively “old-fashioned.” Revelling in their love, however, the lovers of serious music have ridiculed the intimation and called modern jazz the music of the mad-hatters. In these hectic times everything that offers the slightest possibilities is quickly caught up and set to music. Horses, and even such common articles as bananas, have been glorified by our song writers. The modern world demands something new to whistle and - hum every day. But does it remember them? Will the strains of today’s popular tunes linger in the mind tomorrow as “The Poet and the Peasant,” and “Morning. Noon and Night” have done? Tho conflict between the classics and Jazz has been fought verbally and on paper, but it is fought for the first time on the talking, living screen in Columbia’s “The Melody Man.” Handsome young William Collier, Jun., is the exponent of jazz in this talkie, while a veteran of the American legitimate stage, John St. Polis, extols the virtues of the classics. Other prominent members of the cast are Alice Day and that old favourite of the silent screen, Johnny Walker. Many scenes are shown in beautiful natural colour, SUBURBAN THEATRES The Crystal Palace Theatre is showing “The Trial of Mary Dugan,” the fine courtroom drama based on the famous play. Norma Shearer, Lewis Stone and Raymond Hacket are the stars. The Empress Theatre, Newton, the Regent Theatre. Epsom, and the De Luxe Theatre, Mount .Albert, are all showing the great war” story, “The Case of Sergeant Grischa,” from Arnold Zweig’s famous novel of the Russian and German battles. The West End Theatre, Ponsonby Road, is showing two talkie thrillers in “Black Waters,” a sea mystery, and “Guilty,” a courtroom drama. The Alexandra Theatre, Green Lane, is showing “Her Unborn Child,” the heart-touching story of reckless youth and a mother’s love. Emma Dunn, Hilda Vaughn, Natalie Moorehead, Stanley Fields and Brooks Benedict have been added to the supporting cast of “Manslaughter,” the all-talking picture in which Claudette Colbert is featured.