STAGE AND SCREEN

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 12 January 1929, Page 16

STAGE AND SCREEN

OPERA HOUSE. To-night—- " The News Reel’’ (Fox Films). January 14 and 15— “Home James; ' Laura La Plante (Universal). January 16, 17 and 18 — “Th© Last Command;”. Emil Jannings (Paramount Special). J anuary 19— “Under the Block! Eagle; Flas-, the Dog (Metro-Goldwyn). GRAND THEATRE. To-night—- “ Telling the World.” January 16 and 17— “Half a Bride;” Esther Ralston (Paramount). January IS—■ “Under the Bilac-k Eagle;” Flash the Dqg (Metro-Goldwyn). January 19— “Painted Post;” Tom Mix. and episode 1 of “The Scarlet Arrow.” COMING ATTRACTIONS. January 23 and 24 “Rough House Rosie;” Cla'ra Bow (Paramount Special). January 3Q and 31; February 1— “Battle o.f Coronel and Falkland Islands.” British special attraction. January 28, 29 and 30— “Red Hot Speed;” Reginald Denny (Universal). February 6 and 7—“Ten Modern Commandments”. (Paramount special). February 13, 14 and 15 — “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” (Universal special). ' February 25 to March 1 — / “The Trail of ’.98,” (a Metro-Gold-wyn epic). February 27 and 28— “No. 3 Collegians.”

In “Red Hot Speed’’. Reginald Denny portrays the role of a young assistant- district attorney who meets the sweetest girl in the world under exceptional circumstances, first in a motor car collision in which they both express their personal opinions of one another in heated words, and later in the court where he _ has to bring the ' case of .speeding against her and which ho does with genuine enthusiasm. An uproarious series of unique situations follows in which th© young attorney, the girl, her boy friend, her father and the judge are involved. Th© supporting cast included Alice' Day, Thomas Ricketts, Fritz! Ridjg-eway, De Witt Jennings and Charles Byer. Once more Tom Mix. ace of western stars, tells a thrilling story of the early ’nineties, replete with startling episodes' and ntagnificifent .scenic effects. “Painted Post,” his newest for Pox Folms, is due for an early release in New Zealand. His horsemanship, his roping, his dexterity with his sixshooters, together with an intriguing plot and a splendid cast, are the last words in western actions. _ Natalie Kingston has the leading feminine role while Al. St. John supplies the comedy. An intriguing study of modern fast living and its antithesis is “Half a Bride,” which opens a two night season at the Grand Theatre, Wednesday next. The story moves from the gilded ball-rooms of the wealthy, to the sordid underworld pleasure dives, to the clean deck of an ocean-going yacht and to the intriguing setting of a deserted island. It was adapted to the screen from the story, “White Hands,” by Stringer. Esther Ralston and Gary Cooper are starred. “The Trail of ’98,” Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer’s stupendous screen version of the Klondyke gold rush, will be shown in Haw-era shortly. It is said that the stark realism of this great production was largely contributed by advisors in the company who had taken part in the original stempede to Alaska in the ’9B. Ralph Forbes. Dolores Del Rio, Karl Dane, Tally Marshall, Harry Carey and George Cooper have the leading roles, and 15,000 extras appear in the picture. Cosmopolitan Havana, with its wealth of Spanish charm, forms a colourful background for an important sequence in “The News Parade. ’ Fox Films production which screens at the Opera House to-night. The Cuban capital and its nearby_ tobacco plantations, were made an integral part of the story. Nick Smart plays the part of a news-reel cameraman, who is pursuing a camera-shy millionaire. Despite his many hardships and adventures, Nick finds time to fall in love with the millionaire’s beautiful daughter, Sally Phipps. Earle Foxe and Cyril Ring are the villiaiis of the place. "One of the characteristics of theatrical people is that successful players m the comedy field want to do tragedy and great, tragedians usually acne to make audiences laugh. Among the exceptions to this, however, is blonde Laura La Plante, star of Home Janies,” Universal picture showing atthe Opera House Monday and Tuesday next. She is satisfied to remain m comedy parts, in which she lias achieved great success. William Beaudme directed her present production. Included in the cast are Charles Delaney, Aileen Manning, Joan Standing, George Pearce, Arthur Hoyt and Sidney Bracy. . Emil Janning’s latest picture, liie Last Command,” comes to the Opera House on Wednesday next with the great European actor surrounded by the most imposing supporting cast as-s-embled for any of this season, s pictures. Evelyn Brent, tlve heroin© ot “Underworld,” Paramount melodrama sensation, is cast as Jannings’s leading, woman, while William Powell, arch-vil-J ]ian of the screen, is seen as a schein-. ing and sinister revolutionist in a role | that gives him unusual scope for his j admitted ability. The picture is said to be distinguished by not only remarkable performance of Jannmgs, _as a Russian general who is caught m the vortex of revolution and swept to oblivion, but by the outstanding story and directorial treatment _of Josef von Sternberg, the young director whose dramatic touches‘and camera effects m “Underworld” established him as one of the screen’s elect. Playing the role of Jannings’s adjutant is Nicholas I -Soussanin, the Russian actor, who leaped into front-rank popularity by | Jiis performance as “the waiter who ( wept,” in the Adolphe Menjou picture “Service for Ladies.” The cast also includes Michael Visaroff, another exactor of the imperial theatres of Russia who plays Jannings’s valet, and bntz Feld, one time director for Max Reinhardt in Berlin, who came to America in the cast of “The Miracle.” . . William Haines is more entertaining than ever in liis 'latest picture, ‘ TeLing the World,” which is now screening at the Grand Theatre. The report that his acting is almost entirely extemporaneous must he true. No one ■ could possibly be so funny in cold blood i As the newspaper reporter who doesn t recognise love until lie has- almost lost j it Haines makes audiences everywhere ■ rock with laughter while still gulping to keep hack the tears. Anita Page, who makes her first screen appearance | as William Haines’ leading lady ml “Telling the World,” is a real find. Aj replica of a New York City night club was constructed at the Metro-Goldwyn- J Mayer studios for scones in William Haines’ latest starring picture. “Toll- 1 in" the "World.” The cabaret furnishes the locale for one of the funniest se- j quences of the picture.