THE PICTURE HOUSES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 282, 13 November 1929, Page 4

THE PICTURE HOUSES

COSY DE LUXE TALKIES. “Give and Take” concerns an old fruit canning factory owner, played by Jean Hershot, and his superintendent, played by George Sidney. George Lewis plays the owner’s son and heir, and Sharon Lynn the daughter of the superintendent. That young lady also has the dual role of secretary to the boss and fiancee to the boss' son. It is when the son comes home from college and tries to re-organize his father’s business on a profit-sharing basis that the fun starts. The addition of a hard-boiled banker who holds a mortgage on the factory, and a crazy millionaire with a wild chain store scheme, rolls the plot merrily along but almost wrecks the romance. George Sidney is said to hpve the funniest role of his career in this screen comedy. Jean Hershnlt also is provided with a role of great character possibilities. The two screen veterans make an excellent comedy team. George Lewis, of “Collegians” fame, and Miss Lynn are seen in pleasing characterizations. AfUNICIPAL. The mysterious East provides the settings for the prologue, and the beautiful countryside of England the locale for the rest of the interesting story of “Afterwards,” Metro-Gold-wvn-Mayer picture at the Municipal. Finding themselves ahead of the rest

of a hunting part}’ in the hills, an English girl and a young doctor are seized by the fanatical priests of a Sacred Shrine for peeping at its ageold idols, such thing being forbidden to the “unbeliever.” The girl dies at her own request rather than await the torture of the fanatics but the doctor is rescued. Then tho fiance of the dead girl seeks to avenge himself on tho doctor, and pursues the most unreasonable and, indeed, dramatic course back in England some years later. The story is based on the novel by Baroness Orczy—a most popular authoress—and the cast of English and Continental favourites is headed by Marjorie Hume and Julie Suedo. “Speedy,” one of Harold Lloyd’s biggest comedy successes, is also shown.