REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1073, 10 September 1930, Page 15

REGENT

LAST DAYS OF “SEVEN KEYS” An unusual melodrama, “Seven Keys to Baldpate,” adapted from the wellknown stage success of same name, is enjoying a most successful season at the Regent Theatre. The ever-popular comedian, Richard Dix, appears as a writer of fiction, who makes a wager that lie can write a novel within 24 hours if he is given a quiet place in which to work. He chooses Baldpate Inn, a deserted summer resort, for the purpose, and on arrival is handed the “only” key to the place. No sooner does he settle down to work than a second key turns in the lock, and he becomes involved in a series of startling adventures The night is a procession of arrivals.,, it being revealed that there are no" fewer than seven keys to Baldpate. When Marie Dressier and Polly Moran open on Friday at the Regent Theatre in “Caught Short,” a new Metro-Goldwyn-Jlayer talking comedy, the theatregoers of this city will see one of the most thoroughly tested and .proven comedy teams of the screen. Pairs of comedians and comediennes have risen anti fallen through the years with astounding rapidity. It is difficult always to find out why the vogue of any one team suddenly passes. Marie Dressier and Polly Moran continue on and on, their popularity entirely unabated. “Caught Short,” a comedy of the Stock Exchange, is only one of a long series done by the buxom Marie and the very Irish Polly, including “Bringing Up Father,” a picture that made Auckland laugh a year ago.