The Picture Houses

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 162, 28 June 1930, Page 11

The Picture Houses

COSY OE LUXE. Saturday, Monday and Tuesday. June 28th and 30th, July Ist. Matinee Tuesday. “Nix On Dames (Fox). Mao Clarke and William Harrigan have the other principal roles in the film, a tuneful and entertaining story of two woman-haters and their conversion. Maude Fulton, who also wrote the story, George Macfnrlane, Camille Rovello, Hugh McCormack. Marshall Ruth. Grace Wallace, Benny Hall and other celebrities are in the supporting cast. .Also—Talkie Comedy, Schubert Serenade, Novelty and News. Wednesday, Thursday Friday and Saturday. July 2nd, 3rd, 4th and sth. Matinees Thursday and Saturday. “Sunny Side Up” (Fox Special) Janet Gaynor s aepng is aengucful in ’sunny Side Up.” Her performance is as fine as anything she has done on the screen. David Butler, ths director, has done extraordinarily good work. El Brendei, the Sweue of “Tne Cock Eyed World,” affords gales of laughter by his comedy. The musical numbers are shrewdly devised. There is a real reason for the singing as well as the presentations and one particular song called “JTinr on the neat,” is especially cieverly done. ‘■Sunny Side Up” is a production which abounds in good tun, whimsical touches and brilliant staging. Talkie Supports.

♦ * * * “SUNNY SIDE UP." Starts at the Cosy De Luxe Wodnasday.—Showing Four Nights, Two Matinees Thursday and Saturday. “Sunny Side Up,” Fox Movietone musical comedy in which Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell are cofeatured, is the forthcoming attraction at the Cosy de Luxe Theatre on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The “Pearl of . Old Japan” number of ‘ Fox Movietone Foliies” aroused much comment because of its reproduction in natural colours without distortion or overlapping, as is common in many coloui processes. The water carnival number comprises three songs, one of which is a solo by Miss Gaynor, “I’m a Dreamer. Aren’t We All,” a love duet, “If I Had a Talking Picture of You,” sung by Miss Gavnar and Farrell and “Turn On the Heat,” a spectacular iazz number sung and danced bv Sharon Lvnn and an ensemble of 60 beautiful chorus girls. DeSylva, Brown and Henderson wrote “Sunnv Side Un.” including the storv and lyrics and music. David Butler directed and Seymour Felix. Broadway’s most famous dance director, staged the ensembles and song numbers. Reserve early at Fail’s. * ♦ ♦ ♦ “THE YOUNGER GENERATION.” Showing Twice Only at the Municipal Theairo—Thursday uni Friday. Jean Hersholt, one of America’s most talented actors and a master in the art of make-up demonstrates his great skill in Columbia’s Do Luxe production, “The Younger Generation,” which is coming to the Municipal Theatre on Thursday. In the early sequences of the drama Hersholt portrays Pa Goldfish as a middle aged man, a pushcart merchant struggling to support his two children in a tenement of the East Side in New York. There is a lapse of several years. Morris, the boy, played by Ricardo Cortez, has moved the family from the East Side to a luxurious apartment on Riverside Drive. Pa Goldfish has changed considerably. The advance of years and the inactivity of retirement have aged him. The third stage of Pa Goldfish's maturity comes after another two years has elapsed. Morris has sent his sister, Birdie, delineated by Lina Basouette, adrift because she married her childhood sweetheart on the East Side, a role in the capable hands of Rex Lease. Heart-broken, unhapnv and robbed of all his companions, Pa Goldfish appears a man much older than his years. Mr. Hersholt’s work has been declared nn ov+standing piece of histrionic art. The face, carriage, build and personality all undergo a change with the passing years, ♦ * ♦ *

“BROADWAY BCANDALB." One of the Two Stiff Ft:.* res showing at the Municipal Theatre on Thursday and Friday. Sally O’Neil, who is starred in “Broadway Scandals,’’ the ali-talking, singing, dancing musical comedy sensation coming to the Municipal Theatre on Thursday, possesses that rare combination, good common sense and artistic ability. Both these characteristics are hers by inheritane. The common sense comes to her through her father. Thomas Francis Noonan, who was a Justice of the Supreme Court. Artistic ability, in good measure was contributed by her mother, Hannah Kelley, who was an opera singer. These qualities make Sally an extremely intelligent and congenial artist. On a coast visit she met Marshall Neilan. who was then a director for M.G.M. He was so impressed with her vivacious personality that he selected her for the lead in ■■. Mike.” “Sally, Irene, and Mary-’’ for M.G.M followed. She was made. Then came one Success after the other. Miss O'Neil has appeared on the stage but once. This was o.uite recently in a Fanchon and Marco net. But she loves the footlights and is preparing herself for the time when she will take Broadway by storm. And Sally will. Her dancing and singing in “Broadway Scandals” surnasses that of many Broadway musical comedy oueens who rre now the talk of th- Great White Way. Jack Egan and Carmel Mrers appear with Sully O'Neil in Columbia's musical exi l av.-iganza. George Archbold directed.

MUNICIPAL. Saturday, Monday and Tuesday. June 28th and 30th, July nt. “Marianne” (Metro Goldwyn). Come and hear Marion Davies talk! Marion is everybody’s favourite, and you’ll admire her more than ever after seeing and hearing her in her first big all-talking picture. Talkie supports — Comedy, Songs, News Reel. Wednesday and Thursday. July 2nd and 3rd. Two Star Attractions. “The Younger Generation” (Greater Australian Films), with Jean Hersholt, Lina Basquette and Ricardo Cortez. Absorbing drama of ambition, tradition and lonely hearts. Presented in a finished manner by an all-star cast. Directed with rare understanding of human emotions. “Broadway Scandals,” starring Sally O’Neill. A sparkling scintillating musical comedy sensation. Presented' on a lavish scale with beautiful girls, infectious song hits, peppy dances, and riotous comedy. ♦ * * ♦ “NIX ON DAMES.” To-night, Monday and Tuesday, Matinee Tuesday at* the Cosy De Luxe. The famous “Lost Battalion” was a grim reality to William Harrigan, who plays a leading part in the Fox Movietone production of “Nix On Dames,” opening to-night at the Cosy do Luxe Theatre. As captain of Company I, 307th In-fantry.-which played a heroic role in rescuing Whittlesey and his men, Harrigan saw much of the affair. “The battalion never was ‘lost,’ ” Harrigan commented. “They advanced during an attack, and, encountering light resistance, had progressed ahead of the rest of our line. Then the Germans pinched out the salient, and boxed them in a narrow valley. We always knew where they were, but for several, days it was impossible to drive through the enemy defences and rescue them. We finally broke through the German ring, however, and brought the survivors back.” During the rescue Harrigan was bndlv wounded by machine-gun fire and spent the following 17 months in a French hospital before he recovered and went back to America, where he at once attained fame in New York productions. Mao Clarke and Robert Ames have the other featured roles. Donald Gallaher directed. ♦ * * * “MARIANNE.” Showing at the Municipal Theatre on Saturday, Monday and Tuesday. Local movie-goers will be pleased to know that at the change of programme at the Municipal Theatre for to-night, Monday and Tuesday, Marion Davies will appear in her newest Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer starring vehicle, ‘'Marianne,” her first alltalking feature. “Marianne” is a story about a French peasant girl who tried her hardest to keep Allied soldiers at arms’ length at the end of the war, but finished up by marrying one of them—in spite of the fact that she once had a French soldier sweetheart of her own. Five songs, specially composed for the picture, and various musical interludes help considerably to make “Marianne” one of the best screen entertainments of the year to date. On the same programme is also a fine two-reel comedy entitled “Men of War,” in which Laurel and Hardy, described as the world’s supreme screen idiots, appear. Hall’s for reserves.