AMUSEMENTS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19916, 1 May 1930, Page 9

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODY'S THEATRE. Happy memories of the visit paid t jj 6 Christehurch stage a few months ago by Leo Carrillo ore revived by his-acting in the talkie film, "Mister Antonio," at Everybody's Theatre. In th!s talkie Carrillo again takes the part for which he is so suited. He is an Italian who has lived for a short number of years in New York, and who has acquired a verv few American mannerisms, and a still smaller number of American colloquialisms. His name is adequate—Antonio Giovanni Raftaelo Garibaldi Mussolini Oavour Oamaradino is it* immensity—but Tony, hie American nickname, seems in its to fit him still better. With all this weight upon .him, he runs a flower shop in New York. Happy and care-free, he disclaims any regard for women. A shrug of his shoulders, and he dismisses wealth and social position. A smile, and he captivates the hardest heart. His life runs on simple hues, and he has no desire that it should become otherwise. It does not seem in the nature of things, however, that he should be allowed to go on existing thus blissfully, so that a number of minor happenings conspire to lead up to the time when he i« confronted with something 'Which forces him to depart from his regular habits. This something has for Christian name June, and is a most disturbing influence. Virginia ValH's quiet beauty fits the part, and acts as a remarkably suitablo foil to Mister Antonio's Latin impetuosity. Mister Antonio marries her. The preliminary programme this week is quite up to standard. A comedy, "A Day in the Life of a Man of Affairs" is the best of the well-assorted numbers, and a Ufa sketch, "Oriental Motoring," has a very definite' interest for those who know anything of the way of automobiles in the back-blocks. __' "SUNNY SIDE UP," RETURNING NEXT WEEK. At the request of a large number of talking picture patrons it has been decided to present "Sunny Side Up" for a return season in the city, and after protracted negotiations it has been possible to secure this very popular picture for a (season at Everybody's Theatre next week. The box plana are now open at The Bristol Piano Company, and there w every indication that it will bo necessary to book seats. "Sunny Side Up" was the first ol the real musical romances of the acreen, something that was really written for the new medium, and not an adaptation. An excellent cast of favourites were assembled, including those charming playere Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, and the delightful mnsio by de Sylva,. Brown, and Henderson set heads nodding and feet tripping- The picture 1a full of good things, amusing situations, romantio scenes, merry songs, gorgeous ballots, and a charming love story, between a son of New York's Four Hundred and a daughter of New York's Four Million. The comedians are El Brendel, Frank Richardson, and Marjone White; Sharon Lynn is the girl who makes desperate bids for the heart and hand of Charlie Farrell, and Janet Gaynor is the girl who wins that young man. Soma of the sons* and ballet* that are in "Sunny Side Up" are "If I Had a Talking Picture of "You,"" "Turn on the Heat,. "I'm a Dreamer," and 'Tfon've Got me Picking Petals Off of Daisies," and the motiflief of the picture, "Sonny Side TJp." Book now at The Bristol Piano Company..