TALKIE ATTRACTIONS

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 27 September 1933, Page 2

TALKIE ATTRACTIONS

q, OPERA HOUSE. “SAT IT WITH MUSIC. ’ ’ Jack Payne has toured England, and if any proof were needed of his popularity, a recital of the triumphs of that tour would be sufficient. Erom north to south lie played to packed houses, breaking all box-office records. His first film, “Say It With Music, 7 ’ will open at the Opera House, Hawera, to-night for a season of two nights and a matinee to-morrow. It concerns the fortunes of Philip Weston, a composer, who fails to write the music popular to-day, and, therefore, is practically destitute. His little girl, Betty, not realising her father’s ideals in regard to music, happily admits she prefers Jack Payne and his band. Weston takes hi's latest composition to a hard-headed publisher, who advises him to give up writing such “stuff” and points out of the window to the great sign outside a theatre advertising Jack Payne and his band. “Write music that he will play and I’ll publish it,” he states. Hungry and disheartened Weston unseeingly steps in front of a car and is knocked down, but not seriously hurt. The owner picks him up and then greets the startled Weston as an old friend. The accident occurs outside the stage door of a 1 theatre, and the unrecognised friend, after introducing himself as Jack Payne, takes him into his dressing room. It is only after incidents ’’that happened during the war are discussed that Weston realises Payne was a fellow-officer in the Air Force. How Payne brings fame to Weston makes a sentimental, but wholly successful background for exploiting the popular band. “The White ’Sister” will be presented on Friday. Seats may be reserved at Miss Blake’s. ■GRAND THEATRE. “THE WARRIOR’S HUSBAND.” Wise-cracking mythological characters strut across the screen in “'The Warrior’s Husband” one of the brightest of any of the film comedies present- , ed in years. The film deals with a j situation in -which women completely lominate the male and it is the woman, really, who wears the trousers. “The you have imagined only half of “The Warrior’s Husband” shows at the Grand finally to-night. The dialogue [s as sparkling as Burgundy and equally as refreshing. This Jesse Ir. Lasky production for Fox presents Ernest Truex as the diminutive male who is dominated by a face of Amazons who find their love where they take it. There is no watery courtship here, no romancing of the modern type, for if a group of sixfoot women, led by lilissa Landi, Marjorie Rambcau and Helene Madison, choose to raid a man’s habitat, they descend upon him for the love of it—and nothing else.