THE PICTURE HOUSES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 240, 27 September 1929, Page 9

THE PICTURE HOUSES

COSY DE LUXE. Josephine Dunn, leading lady of “China Bound,” Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer comedy feature co-starring George K. Arthur and Karl Dane, at the Cosy Theatre to-night is a product of the Ziegfeld “Follies.” When she was fifteen years old, she accompanied a girl friend when the latter went to the New Amsterdam for a chorus tryout. The director did not choose the friend, but told Josephine she might have a job if she wished; and offered her oOdol a week. Miss Dunn abandoned the stage for filmland several years ago, and has been featured in many pictures. “China Bound” is an original story for the screen, written by Sylvia Thalberg and Frank Butler. It is the first production of the famous Dane-Arthur team in which tho two arc not pitted against each other in love. This time they arc both in love, but with different girls, Arthur with Aliss Dunn and Dane with Polly Moran. Cosy Attraction. Laura La Plante has a personality that is positively magnetic. Add to this a remarkable beauty—and brains! She is capable of investing her role with a comedy strain that, for sheer joyousness and piquant cuteness is irresistible. Then she can run the whole gamut of the emotions from grave and gay. In her dramatic work, Miss La Plante has risen to sublime heights. As the solo dancer of the Imperial Russian Ballet in “The Midnight Sun,” she gave a performance that her right to the pinnacle of fame as a dramatic artist. Contrast again with her rollicking comedy part in “The Love Trap.” Surely few stars oi' the screen to-day could make outstanding successes of such a variety of roles; 1929 is going to be one triumph for Laura La Plante. MUNICIPAL.

An important part of the Zane Grey story, “Avalanche,” which was filmed by Paramount with Jack Holt in the lead, at the Alunicipal theatre, requires the appearance of large numbers of Indians. The headquarters ot tho Paramount players taking part in the film was established at Flagstaff, Arizona, near the huge Navajo reservation. Many Indians of this tribe took part in the picture. Bae lanova, tho great Russian actress, whom Paramount has signed for a scries of important motion picture roles, was once a star of the Moscow Art theatre, and later alternated with Lady Diana Alanncrs in the nun role in Alorris Gest’s, “The Miracle.” She rose to prominence in motion pictures because of her work in Emil Tannings’ picture, “The Street of Sin.” Her latest role is a dance hall girl in “Avalanche,” to be seen at tho Muni cipal Theatre to-night. Municipal Matinee. “A Woman Against the World” will bo shown on Saturday at the Municipal Theatre, it is an exciting story of newspaper life in which a smart and clever girl reporter outwits the best man of the city staff in solving a murder mystery and saving an innocent man from the electric chair though her acumen. In the cast are such well .known screen players as Harrison Ford, Georgia Hale, Gertrude Olmstead, Harvey Clark, Lee Aloran, Sally Rand and a host of others.