AMUSEMENTS

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LVII, Issue 10018, 6 March 1929, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

TOWN HALL. “The Noose,’ starring Richard Barthelmess, will be the featured attraction at the Town Hall tonight and to-morrow night. “The Noose’’ is a highly dramatic vehicle of which the star and director have fully availed themselves. It is unquestionably one of the finest stories Barthelmess has had. He enacts the role of Nickic Elkins, a youth raised in an underworld environment, who is caught in the ironic meshes of a very melodramatic combination of circumstances. To tell you what the situation is would be to spoil your enjoyment. Sufficient to say, it is gripping and unusual. Barthelmess avails himself of the broad opportunities for histrionism and achieves the dramatic heights of which he is capable. On Saturday next the first of the Town Hall’s line of all-British pictures will bo shown. This is “Sailors Don’t Care,’’ featuring Estelle Brody. The story is not one of the war, but is a comedy of .naval life on the lower deck, into which a romantic element has been introduced by the rivalry of two shipmates for the "same parlourmaid, and a dramatic theme' afforded by the counter operations of Q-ships and U-boats. The Admiralty afforded facilities for filming scenes aboard H.M.S. Qbam- | pion, light cruiser, and the Q-boat of the film is “Mandrahe.” An allBritish supporting programme will also be shown. The box plan is now open at Stevens Bros., the Strand.