THE PICTURE HOUSES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 19, 6 January 1930, Page 8

THE PICTURE HOUSES

COSY TALKIES. Starring Paul Muni and Marquerita Churchill, supported by Johnny Mack Brown and Henry Kolkcr, “The Valiant,’’ a Fox all-talking production is the current feature at the Cosy 'do Luxe Theatre. There is a shot, a door opens, a man steals out and in the next scene gives himself up to the police, is tried, condemned, and sentenced to death. But lie will not tell the authorities who be is or why he killed his man. In the meantime in Pennington, Ohio, Mrs Douglas a dear old lady, secs in the man a likness to her son', Joe Douglas, who had left home fifteen years before. Such arc her feelings that she decides that she must go to New York to see the murderer, but her daughter dissuades her by offering to go herself. She secs the mqn, but sis she was a child when ho left home she cannot bo sure of his identity. Throughout the interview it is plain that he is Douglas, but she leaVcs fully convinced by him that her brother was killed in France. The Weakness of the drama lies in the fact that the cause of the murder is never told, and that anyhow Joe is not much of a follow ns lie has prnetieallv deserted his mother and sister for fifteen years. Nevertheless the acting of Paul Muni is rrinpy. and Miss Marguerta Churchill is sweetly emotional as the sister. MUNICIPAL. Most motion pictures dealing with the West have the West nnd its early day conditions as the story basis, but Charles 11. Rogers, producer, of May-

uarcl’s features for First National Pictures decided to change it around and sec what the result would be. And from all indications he has produced a decidedly novel’and entertaining film in “The Royal Rider.” The tnemc deals with a troupe of Texas cowboys travelling through Europe with a Wild West show and in the course of their travels present a show in a small kingdom of the Graustark type of which a little boy of ten years old is king. The show with its Indians. cowboys and bucking bronchos is of course enough to make any youngster of that age willing to chuck a king’s job. One of the high lights of the picture is the huge rodeo staged for the populace of the town, in which the king and his court attend en masse. An all start cast is to be seen in Olive Hasbrouck, Phillip do Lacy, .Joseph Burke Theodore Lorch, Barry Somols and Billy Franoy. Of course Tvm and Tarzan have some now and thrilling stunts to offer. Harry •T. Brown directed.