THE PICTURE HOUSES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXI, Issue 13, 29 December 1930, Page 9

THE PICTURE HOUSES

COSY DE LUXE. Victor McLaglen sustains bis reputation as a merry pursuer of the fair sex in ‘’On The Level,” Fox movietone comedy drama at the Cosy Theatre. He makes love to a pretty and vivacious French girl and when ho attempts to throw her over for a new and more intriguing woman, the other girl chases him throughout a period of dramatic and humorous situations. The inimitable Fili Dorsay is McLaglen’s first love, while Lilyan Tushman portrays the character of the vamp who inveigles him into a refil estate racket and into which McLaglen plunges his iron working pals. Included with the principals are such well known screen favourites as William Harrigan, Arthur Stone, Leila Mclntyre, Mary McAlister, Hon Hewlett, Harry Tenbrook and It. 0. Pennell round out an unusually strong east. MUNICIPAL. Why are so many wives of wealth and leisure “Paris Bound,” in search of (swift and easy dissolution of the marriage ties? The frankness with which this question is discussed in Philip Barry’s sensational play, “Paris Bound,’’ startled New York when the stage vehicle was presented there. Now it is at the Municipal Theatre via the talking screen, with all the force and brilliance of the author’s social dissection preserved. “Paris Bound" was adapted for the screen by Horace Jackson, who faithfully retained the author’s startling analysis of modern marriage. It was filmed for Pathe under the direction of Edward H. Griffith, with Ann Harding as star and Fredric March leading man. Others giving portrayals of important release .Juliette Crosby, Ilka Chase, Leslie Fention, Charlotte Walker, Carmelita Geraghty, Hal Cooley and George Irving. “The Racketter” is also shown.