TWO INTERESTING TALKIES

Evening Star, Issue 21036, 25 February 1932, Page 2

TWO INTERESTING TALKIES

STRAND'S BILL FOB TO-HOBBOW

A double-feature programme will be screened at the Strand Theatre to-mor-row. The 'first picture is entitled ' Captain Applejack,’ with John Halliday in the leading role. 1 Captain Applejack ' took Broadway by storm. The white-collar crowds who saw it—and beheld the timid Ambrose Applejohn suddenly whisked into the midst of a nightmare in which his desires to be like his fierce grandfather, the pirate ‘Captain Applejack,’ are realised—shook with laughter. John Halliday plays the title role in 1 Captain Applejack.’ Lovely Mary Brian as his American ward, and Kay Strozzi as an adventuress, also appear in the pirate sequences. Louise Glosser Hale is in the cast together with Julia Swayne Gordon. Alec B. Francis, Claude Allister, Arthur Edmund Carew, Otto Hoffman, and William _ Davidson. The picture is an adaptation of the stage success of Walter Hackett. The screen version is by Maude Fulton. Hobart Henly directed, ‘ Captain Applejack ’ is outstanding among comedies, by reason of the fact that the pirate interludes are made of the stuff of dreams—and the thrills and the final discovery of the hidden treasure of old sea-raider—are reality. ‘ His Friend's Wife,’ the other film, is a gripping melodrama of railroads and the men and women who run them. Grant Withers, Mary Astqr, and Regis Toomey share the leading roles. It concerns the love of two men for one woman—two friends of the engine cab who become deadly rivals for the same girl. Ail the thrill of a railroading is added to the power of a gripping love story to make ' His Friend’s Wife ’ one of the most interesting pictures of the season. Janies Cagney, Fred Kohler, J, Farrell MacDonald, and Joan Blondell complete the cast.