CRYSTAL PALACE TALKIES.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19724, 14 September 1929, Page 12

CRYSTAL PALACE TALKIES.

A l JQfci3QK ft lN *'* HE SINGING ■ ' oriiXl.W MONDAY. 'The Singing Fool" in to be presented at the Crystal Palace Theatre Talkies on Monday. Not very often, only in the sjch drama* 'et the great playwrights, are all the human emotions, and all the fine things that human nature is attracted to, found in a play that is so -marvellously generous in •very good thing it offers. "The Singing Fool" is a tragicomedy, played behind a background of the stage, the stoge that, for the layman and the artist, is the one glamorous, alluring quantity left to a prosaic world. Picture producers ar«i wise in their generation in making pictures with this background; and the directors «f AI. Jolson know that, in having the services of the greatest artist in America to-diy, they at least can produce a pieiure that can leave the rest trailing behind. "The Singing Fool" is told in nong, dance, and story. Though the stagings be gorgeous, the ballets the last thing in modern dancing, though the music specialty written for Al. Jolson be melodious, oris, leaves the theatre with a 'sense of having seen an* heard Onlv Jbtson. He is so truly great an artist, that "he overtorts the production, at the same time- never oonrpletely swamping his fellow-players. Duver Lee, the famous Sonny Boy of the equally famous song, is a smalt boy rather lonely for the attentions of a faithless mother, end an adoring father who must spend his ' days lid nights sincing in the cabarets of Broadway. Betty Broneon and Josephine i>uriß .are ,t»e two women, the one the good mentor, tVe other a fair schemer who sees advancement in the Singing Fool. The supporting talking subjects are on a par with the rest of the programme. The New Tosk Philharmonic Orchestra i* heard in the overture to "Tannhauser," Giovanni MartiaeUi, the famovs grand opera tenor, sings "On 'With the Motley," and those celebrated comedians, the Howard Brothers, are toen and heard tn a convulsive comedy turn, trend opera burlesque. The world's news tn sight and sound will complete this superlative bill. Patrons are counselled to book ■tats at The Bristol Piano Company.