AMUSEMENTS.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19664, 6 July 1929, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS.

GREAT TALKING COMEDY.

"GIVE AND TAKE." HEAR GEORGE SIDNEY AT LIBERTY. The excellent standard of talking programmes set by the Liberty Theatre is continued in the bill to be offered next week. The main attraction is the talking comedy, "Give and Take," in which appears a great cast, beaded by those two seasoned veterans, George Sidney and Jean Hersholt. The pro gramme of short subjects to be seen and heard inciudea the Royal Hawaiians in new Island meiodies, two short comedies, Raw Recruit," and "Barnum and Bailey," Fox movietone news of the world, and perhaps the most interesting of ail, the recording of last year's service at the Cenotaph in Whitehall on Armistice Day. This is a most impressive film, showing the arrival of H.M. the King, hearing the massed bands of the Brigade of Guards, Last Post, Reveille, and the National Anthem, and the march past of troops, ex-Servicemen, and V.A.D.'b. The principal picture, the comedy, "Give and Take," is a delicious bit of whimsical humour. Love and business, in a strongly Jewish atmosphere, again provide al! the inherent humour that is to be derived from such a combination, and the droll George Sidney is now heard in some quaint lines. He and Jean Hersholt play business partners who are more concerned with quarrelling over their personal differences than attending to their fruit preserving factory. And when George Sidney's son returns from college with bright and modern ideas for the factory, he is roundly abused by the partners. George Lewis, of "Collegians" fame, plays this juvenile role with much eclat, anJ Sharon Lynn is the girl in the case, who ranges herself on the side of the two old men. The whole thing becomes delightfully complicated, nothing at all serious or tragic happening throughout this purely comic piece. And wi;h talking it is so much more fascinating. Every word comes through with great strength and clearness, and George Sidney's little mannerisms and his quaint accent are not the least of the picture's attractions. "Give and Take" is the first all-laughing talkie to be screened in New Zealand. It is a story of everyday life, human, funny, and clever, not ambitious, but with a personality about it that makes It one of the comedies of the season. Patrons are advised to book seats at The Bristol Piano Company, where seats may be reserved for this picture.