STAGE AND SCREEN

Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 31 August 1929, Page 18

STAGE AND SCREEN

OPERA HOUSE. To-night.— “Out of the Ruins”—(Richard Ra;rrheimess, F.N.) Sept. 2-3. — “His Lucky Day”—(Reg. Deruiy). Universal. Sept. 4-5. ‘The Bellamy Trial,” M.G.M. (Leatrice Jov and Betty Bronson). Also “Lady of the Victories”— 1 (Technicolour added attraction). Sept. 6. — “Girls Gone Wild.” (Sue Carol).) Fox Films. So irt. 7. — “Girls Gone Wild” (Fox). Also “Show Girl” (First National).

GRAND THEATRE

To-night.— * “Port of Missing Girls” (Fox). Also Episode 1 ‘‘Tarzan the Mighty.” Sept. 4. —“His Lucky Day.” Reg. Denny. (Universal).

Sept. 7. “Show Girl” (First National). Also Episode 2 “Tarzan the Mighty.”

Reg. Hinny will be seen at the , Opera House on Monday next in his uitest production “His Lucky Day.” ■ -yeamy, in tne course of his professional i duties, has essayed, many ciiaraoters 1 riom bisnops to pugilists—but in '“His I Lucky Day’ he pjfeys the role of a ! snte&man, a part which he embellishes). with such lianciful antics &si to astonish anyone of that profession. Episode I of the Universal chapter , puiy, ‘‘ 1 arzan the Mighty,” will be screened at- the. Grand Theatre this evening. A special competition is being lun in conjunction with the screening of this serial at the Opera House every Saturday afternoon.. The competition i® open to children not over 14 3 ears or age. The six valuable prizes ottered are now in view in Messrs Laidlaw s shop window. j-i * Trail” is sicreehing at the Operia House on Wednesday next, With Leatnce Joy in the leading role as the beautiful murder defendant, the drama is played by a cast that represents one of the great assemblages’ of screen talent ever to appeal- m one production. There are seventeen principa'i players, and: during the- filming 0 f the huge court-room scenes •some eighty 1 persons were under weekly contracts and several hundred extra players were used. Introduced to the screen in a most novel manner by Monta Belt, who. wrote and directed lgcreen pltiv from the sensational magazine serial by Frances Noyes Hart, the mystery drama maintains a thrilling tempo of suspense that is dispelled only in the final! footage that reveals the real murdterer. Devotion seldom encountered but often told of in stories of fact and fiction, occurs in “Out of the Ruins,’ the First National Picture starring Richard Bartheimess, which come® to the Opera Hons© to-night. A young lieutenant of chasseurs in the French Army during the war falls in love, while on leave, with the sister of his buddie. They are separated by the call to duty, and a slacker tries to marry the girl. Unable to get leave when he hears this, the lieutenant deserts and is murt-martial-ledi when he eroes back. How this difficult problem is straightened out to the satisfaction of all make® a very fine drama.

The William Fox production, “Girls Gone Wild,” Trill be screened at the Opera House on Friday next. Sue Carol tion.

Miairie Bremner, who plays one of the principal parts is the great J. C. Williamson musical production, “The Desert Song,” is a Melbourne girl, who has already made a. great name for inr&df in the firm’s big productions, “Bose Marie,” ‘Lilac Time,” and other musical plays- Commencing by the winning of the Melba Scholarship at the Albert Street Conserva.torium of Music, Dame Neihe took a keen interest in the new pupil, whom she considered mo.?t premising, and in 1924 she joined ibe chorus of the Williauison-Melba. Grand Opera Company. Melba, however, con'idered that Mss Bremner’s future Jav ifiamiy in musical comedy, and when the’ firm organised the “Maid of the Mountains” she was transferred’ to this company . Subsequently .she appeared in “The Lady of the Rose,’’ “The Street Singer” and 1 “Rose Marie.” For two yeans she was Harriet Bennett’s understudy in the title rdl e of the lastmentioned musical comedy, which she played on fourteen occasions. Motion oictui'e audiences will hear Harold Lloyd’s voice for the first time m the sound and talking version of his latest feature comedy for Paramount, titled “Wdicome Danger.’’ The silent version was recently completed. Barbara- Kent plays the feminine lead, and' Mary McAlister has another important featured role.

Holly wool is one of the most, cosmopolitan cities in the world, and casting directors have little difficulty in obtaining types of almost any nation under the sun. to use in film productions. Even among the ranks of the stars representatives of many nations are included, while the “bit” land “extra” players gather themselves into little self-contained colonies. In “Betrayal,” the latest Emil Jennings’ picture for Paramount, over 100 Swiss types were required. Although the mountain republic hap not a great many representatives in Hollywood, and the number was obtained with little difficulty. A large number of French “extras” were used in Maurice -Chevalier’s first, all-talking picture for Paramount, “Innocents in Paris.” French types are plentiful in Hollywood,; and can be obtained in almost any number through the Central Casting Bureau. Three hundred Orientals are among the “extra” players appearing -in “The Mysterious Dr. Fu Munch u,”. another Paramount all-talking picture. They worn obtained from the Los Angeles Chinatown.

Marking another step "in technical! advancement of talking •nicturcs, engineer Lodge Cunningham, of the Paramount Christie staff, lias worked out what is believed to be tlie first perfected “lap dissolves” done with voice and picture, in the current Douglas McLean fea--1 ture, “Divorce Made Easy.” Scenes which dissolved back and forth between various characters in which the voices as well as the pictures merge perfectly on one picture and sound track required much careful manipulation. The results are said to b- strikingly novel and developed; to the same'state of oerfection which the sinibler lan dissolves i had attained in the former 'silent pic- , tunes. Even further achievement has just been accomplished by Cunningham in completing u process for double exposure in picture and' sound, whereby a. talking character can play a dual role, conversing with himself on the screen and using two different-voices. First us®, of the new methods will I>e made in the next Paramount Christie talking ■play.