TALKIE ATTRACTIONS

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 21 February 1935, Page 2

TALKIE ATTRACTIONS

“MORNING GLORY.”

OPERA HOUSE

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., is. co-starred with Katharine. Hepburn in “Morning Glory,” which opens at the Opera House to-night, and Adolphe Menjou. Despite the fact that his father was one of the cinema’s greatest stars, young Fairbanks chose to start his own picture career at the bottom of the ladder. He did extra work in a number of films before winning a chance to step into featured roles. Menjou broke into the screen limelight only after one of the hardest of struggles as an extra. He got his first big chance in the Chaile s Chaplin film, “A Woman of Paris,” and within a short time after the release of that picture he was a ranking star. “Morning Glory” presents Miss Hepburn a s a fiery and eccentric girl who leaves her little home town to go to New York and conquer Broadway. After a dramatic struggle, far different from those pictured in what are generally called back-stage films, she succeeds. Fairbanks portrays a young theatrical producer, and Menjou is seen-as his chief. Lowell Sherman directed.

GR AND J HEATRIE

“PRIVATE DETECTIVE 62.”

An exceptionally noted list of players appears in the cast of the Warner Bros, picture, “Private Detective 62,” which conies to the Grand Theatre tonight. William Powell .the star, is.a prime favourite, and one of the most- polished actors of the screen. His role of a private detective who worms his way into the good graces of the ladies in order to spy on them is one perfectly fitted for the perfect screen lover. His splendid work in recent pictures such a s “One Way Passage,” “Lawyer Man” and “Jewel Robbery” has strengthened his popularity with the motion picture going public. Margaret Lindsay, his leading lady, while comparatively new to the screen, has already won recognition for her work in “Cavalcade,” “Baby Face,” “All American” and other notable pictures. She possesses an unusual personality and charm of manner in addition to her ability in character portrayal. Ruth Donnelly, who will be remembered for her exceptional work in “Hard to Handle” and “Blessed Event,” adds no little to the humorous side of the picture ns the wisecracking secretary to Powell. Sheila. Terry, Natalie Moorhead, Ann Hovey and Renee Whitney add to the pulchritude of the feminine array of players and lend considerable spice to tho story by becoming, involved in love nests and clandesfine affairs which are brought to light by the redoubtable Detective Powell.

“BLOSSOM TTME.”

The world will bo ever grateful for “Blossom Time,” British International Picture’s lavish musical romance of Franz Schubert, starring Ricliard Tauber, which comes to the Opera House on Saturday for a four-nights’ season. No greater masterpiece of screen artistry lias ever been produced. ’ No mom beautiful, more human story has ever gripped the imagination than this story of Schubert’s love—and renunciation of his beloved Vicki. She inspired the most beautiful music the centuries have recorded—and surely, there has never been anything more pathetically lovely than the spectacle of Schubert lifting up his magnificent voice to toll of his love to the glorious strains oG “Thine Is My Heart.” Yet, she was not for him. Heartbroken, yet the girl’s happiness was “all that mattered” to Schubert and he helped forward her romance to fruition—and in the brilliant finale—midst the peaceful, magnificent settings of the vast cathedral—at the wedding of Vicki and Rludi, the man of her choice—the great composer pours forth his tormented soul to the glorious strains of “Love Lost Forever More.” You forget it is Tauber’s voice—for Tauber is Schubert—and never has the screen seen such a remarkable characterisation.