CIVIC TALKIES.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19732, 24 September 1929, Page 15

CIVIC TALKIES.

an international stage success. • •BULLDOODRVMHOKD.'' The 'Western Electric System for the **- productlon of talking pictures now being inHUlled in the divie theatre will be »U*d '<* the first time ttest Friday night, when tlie Mayor will offioUlljr opta the new talking picture theatre. The management of the CiTifc are fortunate indeed td nettnfe Colman's first all-talking picture. Bulldog t>rummond," for the OpMH&g. The film has been Warmly praised by the leading reviewers in London, where it has been running tor many months, thrilling thousands, as it did in Haw YWk. The story has been adapted from the interhatiofial state sttecMa which was, uv tuf-n, the stage version of a famous book By "Sapper." the picture is also anique, beeatue the entire east ate Sngllsh Stage P}**" #rs, (peaking th« King'* English impeccably. In its review of the premierescreeuingof the pletufe the "Hew fofk Hefajd k *! s :~7 "it proved to be, thanks to a brilliant and Imaginative production and *ft adMlrable performance by its star, Mr Ronald Oolman, the most advanced of the audible photo-plays. Td ft greatM than Bis itjy in the new mannet. Bullwi PiftllDffiotta suceeedi in combining authentic in«t hods With stage dialogue. .. . Bulldog Druftuftond' motes with a gratifjrih* rapidity talking pictures seldom achieve, and its Atmospheric pfcotogTaJSfiy Is brilliant. • . . the resttlt is excellent entertainments . . . Whetli the greatest break that most stars of the sileiit fllto rttieive 1« thnt vdices go not lnj-ire them too teach, Mr Oolfflan is the fortunate than whose stature is increased about 300 times by the coming of speech. The possessor of a pleasfcnt, eultured Voice and an easjf manner, Re playd with such charm, gaiety, ease, and resource that his portrayal is one of this distinct achievements of the talkidf photo-plaj'. . A djetinet Step In the progress of SCfeen dialogue. _ The short featu?es include a tao|t interesting Jfew ISealdfid fil® "Bwordfiihing" whieh will haVe talking ftfld sound novelties. I"he bo* plara* are now open at ffcfc Bristol. and also at the Farmers Coop. Ceuritfy patrons ife advised to riiefvt thrttlgS the Farnnts'.