THE REGENT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 233, 1 October 1929, Page 11

THE REGENT

A POPULAR PROGRAMME. The programme now showing at the Regent Theatre,' where 1 * Show People,” a sound synchronised production is the principal film, is particularly attractive. The stars are Marion Davies and William Haines, and they are supported on occasions by such world-famed screen artists as Douglas Fairbanks, Norma Talmadge, John Gilbert, Mae Murray, Rod la Rocque, Renee Adoree, Leatrice Joy, K. Arthur, Karl Dane, Aileen Pringle, Estelle Taylor, Dorothy Sebastian, and Polly Moran. Their appearance in the picture was due to the fact that scenes in the “Show Peoplje’’ story include also life behind stage, and the stars are shown going through the process of making five other pictures. This represents a most novel innovation in the matter of story background. The story is the romance of a girl (a haughty Southern girl), who wants to break into the movies, enters upon a career by the comedy route, becomes a dramatic star, nearly loses everything because her success goes to her head, and is saved at last by the machinations of a comedian and her own sense of humour. The scenes taken in and around the studios are vastly interesting. As a result, audiences are given a quick look at William Haines and Anita Page making “Telling the World”; Joan Crawford, Anita Page, Dorothy Sebastian, Nils Asther, and John Mack Brown making “Our Dancing Daughters”; Louise Lorraine and Lawrence Gray with “Flash,” in “Shadows of the Night,” “Show People” presents the story of Hollywood with all the genius of showmanship at its best, with innumerable laughs, real heart-stirring romance, and an unprecedently brilliant cast. The supports which include a Pathe Sound News, songs by Van and Schenck (singing comedians); Vincent Loper (a jazz conductor a the piano) and Joseph Regan, the notable Irish-American tenor, are particularly good. The latter is an’arist of worldwide popularity and has previously been heard in Wanganui. Qommencing To-morrow

“When better whoopee is made, Clara will make it,” might well have been the motto of the Paramount sponsors of Miss Bow’s latest confection of the screen, “The Wild Party,” from one written by Warner Fablau, calls for youth’s madest flaunting of the conventions, and the action reaches many a crescendo pitch as Clara and her mates have their wild, unbridled flings in night clubs and at week-end parties. There is an undercurrent of true romance throughout the play which bubbles tp the surface triumphantly in the last few scenes. It is an all-talkie. Fredric March furnishes the heroic male appeal in the play, carrying off the role of a college professor wiih a delightful intelligence. He is dark-haired and handsome and his directors did well to choose him as the lover. A dazzling group of “baby” stars supports the inimitable Clara in true “hey-hey” style, furnishing an c HIt” in the full curves of wholesome femininity. ARAMOHO SCHOOL BAZAAR. The committee of the Aramoho School are taking active steps to maintain an improvement fund and to that end a bazaar and sale of work is being opened to-morrow. This is to take place in the school hall, and. in the evening, a special feature will be a children’s concert. The grounds at the Aramoho school have been favourably commented upon by visitors to

Wanganui, and any aim to improve them should meet with support.