"HOT NEWS."

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19676, 20 July 1929, Page 6

"HOT NEWS."

A BEBE DANIELS' COMEDY. CRYSTAL PALACE, MONDAY. The return of Miss Bebe Daniels to the Christchurch screen is in the nature of an event. On Monday, her latest comedy, "Hot News," will play a week's engagement at Crystal Palace Theatre, with Neil Hamilton as her leading man. The story deals with adventures of two rival camera people, and depicts the hjiir-raising adventures enjoyed by cameramen and camerawomen. Miss Daniels photographs for one "paper," and Hamilton for another. Professionally they are enemies, but in private life they indulge in excursions into the land of romance. "Blindfold" is from a story by Charles Francis Coe, and features the Press and the police working together to capture a gang of jewel thieves. This theme _ has been handled so many times that one is justified in thinking that there can be no more original exposition of it, "but "Blindfold," in its startling ingenuity, completely repudiates this idea. It is original, clever, and always supremely interesting. George O'Brien is always pleasing to watch, and it has been interesting, too, to watch Miss Moran develop from the gauche and unsophicated child to a creature of the underworld, alias a newspaper woman suffering from amnesia! Earle Foxe is a menacing villain. Mr Alfred Bnns Was selected a special musical score to accompany this programme. Box plans are et The Bristol ~*iano Company, where seats may be reserved.