GRAND THEATRE

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19666, 9 July 1929, Page 16

GRAND THEATRE

AX EXCELLENT PROGRAMME. FIRST CHAPTER OF TARZAN. Karl Dane and George K. Arthur are amusing at any time, bnt in their latest picture, "Detectives," they excel themselves, and with beautiful Marceline Day to support thoin, make a delightful trio. The two comedians, one tall, powerful, but rather dull and homely, the other small, dapper, and certainly very mischievous, produce excellent comeiiy 1 in this new farce, with the surprisingly wide i background of a fashionable hotel. Karl 1 Dane is the house detective, extremely se.fconfident, 't not so capable, Georko K. Arthur is a <erky bell-boy, and Marceline Day is the pretty typist. There comes a jewel robbery with its consequent complications and the futile and idiotic methods employed by tho detective show him up as a "big noise and little else. It is left to "Buttons" to trace the robbers, and he discovers that Dt. Orion", a so-called Egyptologist, is the head of a gang of society crooks, and is practising his misdeeds in the hotel. In the not unbecoming guise of a housemaid, Georgo X. Arthur has some really funny love scenes with the susceptible Dane. The pearl thieves discovered by the typist, Lois, kidnap her and take her to a most mysterious mansion in the country. The detective and the bellboy are close on their heels, however, and they have some very exciting adventures in a house of secret trap doors and dungeon cells. Eventually the villains are run to ground and George K. Arthur is the lucky one to win tho girl and the substantial reward. This is a first-class picture with clever . subtitles to add to its attractiveness. Hoot Gibson plays the lead in « new "Western, "The Lariat Kid," which is considerably above the average. Gibson is. one of the most popular cowboy actors, and has plenty of scope for his riding and fighting abilities in this play. This week the management of the Grand are screening the first chapter of the serial picture, "Tarssm the Mighty." The screen adaptation compares very favourably with tho popular book by Edgar Rice Burroughs, and the instalment, "The Terror of Tarzan," is most exciting aud spectacular. The scene is set in the jungle wilds of Central Africa, where Tarsan, the son of an English gentleman, grows up amoncat the apes and rules this strange people with an iron hand. Frank Merril, muscular and well fitted to his part, and Natalie Kingston, have tbe leading roles.