THE PICTURE HOUSES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 75, 12 March 1930, Page 9

THE PICTURE HOUSES

COSY TALKIES. ■ Every important member of the cast of “Hulldog Drummond,” the mystery thriller which Samuel Goldwyn brhigs to the Cosy Theatre tonight for 6 nights and three matinees, with Ronald Colman as star, is an actor of considerable stage experience. Colman himself was a prominent juvenile on the English stage before coming to the United States and got his first chance in pictures after Henry King, the director, saw him in a New York production and signed him io play opposite Lillian Gish in “The White Sister.” Joan Bennett, who plays the leading feminine role opposite’ him, is making her first appearance in films, having recently completed playing in “Jarnegan” on Broadway with her father, the famous Richard Bennett. Lilyan Tashman, the blonde temptress of the picture, began her/stage career as one of Fiorelli; Ziegfeld’s glorified show girls. Montagu Love and Lawrence Grant are both well-known American stage actors in character specialities and Claude McAlister, playing Algy Longworth, Bulldog Drummond’s bosom friend, played the same role in the days when “Bulldog Drummond” was the stage hit cf London. MUNICIPAL. The rapid development and acceptance of domestic science gives rise to the speculation—will a school of professional family managers be a part of the regular family life of the future? Just what sort of future this envisions can in some measure be determined at the Municipal Theatre this change where a film, “The Head of the Family,” is playing. This is a Gotharfi production which treats of the problem of family management under a stranger’s supervision, and what doesn’t happen before sundry domestic traditions are ironed out. is a caution. Besides being edifying, the story as portrayed by Virginia Lee Corbin and William Russell is decidedly entertaining. Go see it, and decide this question for yourself. Joseph C. Boyle has done a masterful job «of direction, retaining a great truth of life in the guise of comedy burlesque. The cast contributes nobly to the entertaining design. The story by George Randolph Chester, ran in the ‘‘Saturday Evening Post.”