The Picture Houses

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 197, 9 August 1930, Page 15

The Picture Houses

COSY DE LUXE. Saturday, Monday, Tuesday, August sth, 11th and 12th. Matinee Tuesday. “Navy Blues” (Metro)—A great star and two supporting favourites—William Haines, Anita Page and Karl Dane—will give you the greatest entertainment that has oome your way for weeks when you see the albtalking picture “Navy Blues.” All Talkie Featurettes: Our Gang Comedy. “Aoe of Scotland Yard.” Song- and News Reel. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, August 13th, Uth and 13th. Matinee Tuesday. “Thunderbolt” (Paramount)— Drama that erupts with the great primitive forces of love and hatel Bancroft’s compelling characterisation! Talkie Supports in Addition: Paramount Comedy Screen Novelty, Talkie News Reel. ♦ ♦ ♦ MUNICIPAL. Saturday Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, August sth, nth, 12th and 13th. Four Nights. “Dynamite” (Metro Super).— “Dynamite." De Mille’s first production for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. features Conrad .Nagel, Kay Johnson Charles Bickford and Julia Fave. Also Screening- Entertaining Songs, “Pirate of Panama.” Friday. August 15th. once Only. '. - “Trailing Trouble” (Universal).— Starring Hoot Gibson. A thrilling comedy drama that starts as a Western story but leads Hoot into town and trouble in. the Chinese quarters. Talkie Short Subjects: Sporting Youth Series. Collegians, Talkie News and Gaieties. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ “THUNDERBOLT,**. Showing at the Cosy do Luxe Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Bancroft and Von Sternberg! Marvellous portrayers of life on the screen With “Underworld” it seemed that these two, star and director, achieved the greatest things possible on the screen, but “Thunderbolt” coming to the Cosy de Luxe Theatre for a three days’ run and the miracle workers have per fected a new and greater picture of life in the little known melieu of the underworld. No stronger drama has ever been conceived: no greater emotional climax ever screened than Von Sternberg and Bancroft have brought forth in “Thunderbolt.” Opening in the intriguing atmosphere of New York’s underworld where Bancroft as a fearful death dealer sways the lives and destinies of hundreds of human beings, it swings to the awe-inspiring setting of Sing Sing’s Death Row where the final exciting climaxes in this most gxciting drama are enacted. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ "DYNAMITE.” Four Nlghtr sereenlng at the Municipal Theatre Saturday, Monday Tuesday and Wednesday. “Dynamite,’ the powerful Cecil de Mille production of Jeanie Ma:Pherson’s newest stoiy, which will be introduced to the Municipal pairons, is aptly mimed The story deals with a young society girl and her relationship to a polo-playing dilettante and a stalwart two-fisted coalminer. A youthful heiress who is going .the pace, is left a fortune on condition that she is married, and living with her husband on her twenty-firtt birthday. This modern girl does nothing by halves She first Of all agrees to buv a husband from another wcman for 100,000 dollars, and then, in order to get the fortune, marries a murdeiei a few hours before he is due to be hanged. Everything might have gone all right had not the condemned man been pardoned, and returned to his wealthy wife. The mingling of both sides of life is very cleverly done in this remarkable motion picture which talks. One oi the highlights in the brilliant production iq a scene at a fashionable country club, showing an aero-loop race, an archery competition a came of “dong,” and many of those lavish and unusual touches for which De Mille is renowned. “Dynamite” discusses a modern story in modern language spoken by modern people. The plan for reserves is at Hall’s. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ "NAVY BLUES.” A Metro Super Comedy Drama Showing at the Cosy do Luxe Saturday, Monday, and Tuesday Evenings with Matinee Tuesday g. 30. Adventures on land and sea, comic complications on a destroyer combined with a romantic drama showing William Haines not only as the comedian but as the delineator of the more serious side of life, mark the star’s first all-talking picture, “Navy Blues,' cbming to the Cosy de Luxe. The now Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production is one of the moat elaborate starring vehicles Hainee has ever bad, and under the dels direction of Clarence Brown it sparkles with poignant bits of heart interest interspersed among the comedy sequences, in a peifectlv rounded piece of entertainment. Haines's whimsical humour is not lacking and there are many screamingly funny sequences. But in the love story that is the central theme of the picture. Haines strikes a deepei note to show himself not only a good comedian but a fine actor of the serious and romantic emotions. Mu-h of the picture was 'actually filmed on a destroyer, and real sailors on the vessel vie wAh the sailors from the studio in grvrug realism to these sequences. This was made possible through ,eo-opr*ra-tion of the United States Nary Department.