ENTERTAINMENTS

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2504, 18 March 1930, Page 4

ENTERTAINMENTS

‘ON TRIAL” TALKIE AT THE LYCEUM TO-NIGHT

Another big change goes on tonight. The Lyceum has secured that too per cent, talkie sensation, “On Trial.” The scenes are laid in the courtroom where the trial of Strickland for the murder of Gerald Trask is in progress. Strickland’s wife and small daughter are present as witnesses, as are the widow of the slain man, his secretary and others. All the routine of the law is followed to the letter, and the result is thrilling in the extreme. The cast includes Pauline Frederick, Bert Lytell, Lois Wilson, Holmes Herbert, Richard Tucker, Johnny Arthur, Fred Kelsey, Edmund Breeze and Edward Martindel. Archie L. Mayo directed. The play was written by the celebrated playwright, Elmer Rice, at the time a clerk in a New oYrk law office. The human drama w'hi’ch he saw daily in the pursuance of his duties finally crystallised into the play which when produced =et New York agog. “DANGER STREET” AT TIVOI T This is an unusual play theme. The underworld of New York, probably the most colourful and fascinating community of any city in the world, forms fhe background for ‘Danger Street,” an epic of gangster stories. Warner Baxter, as the suave young thoroughbred of York’s exclusively fashionable 400. renders a performance equal to that in “Ramona,” his latest triumph. Martha Sleeper, cast as a lunch room cashier in the leading feminine role, furnishes the heart interest. The story is based on a Red Book-Maga-zine success, “The Beautiful Bullet,” by Harold MacGrath, while Enid Hibbard is credited with the screen adaptation. “Our Modejjn Maidens'* and a matinee to-morrow. - ■