AMUSEMENTS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 35, 25 January 1932, Page 9

AMUSEMENTS

COSY TALKIES, HASTINGS “SPORTING BLOOD” Thrills of the racecourse, intimate details of the “inside” of the racing game, and an expose of crooked gambling methods are woven into an engrossing and sometimes spectacular background for “Sporting Blood,” Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s filraisation of the Saturday “Evening Post” story, “Horseflesh,” by Frederick Hazlitz Brennan. Tho picture opened og Saturday night at the Cosy Theatre. Tho central theme is a love romance, and tho story follows the fortunes and career of a racehorse only to show the conflicting human elements. The original story was adhered to in a clever manner, the picture still preserving all the interest that screen technique can give. Clark Gable, who recently leaped into prominence with his work in “The Secret Six,” “A Free Soul” and other pictures, and Madge Evans, the delectable heroine of “Son of India” and “Guilty Hands,” play the central roles. Ernest Torrence gives a convincing character study as Rellence, owner of the racehorse farm, and Lew Cody, as Scanlan, the gambling magnate, has a part that borders on the “heavy,” but makes him a most engaging type of villain. Charles Brabin’s direction is artistic and deft. Other characters are equally well cast. Marie Prevost for Comedy, as tho ex-Follies beauty, Harry Holman as Hartwick, the Chicago magnate with a penchant for the ponies; J. Farrell McDonald as the trainer, and Hallam Cooley.

ARCADIA TALKIES, HASTINGS “KING OF JAZZ” NOW SHOWING Ono of tho most brilliant and spectacular productions yet screened in New Zealand has arrived in Hastings and was thoroughly appreciated by a full house on Saturday evening. It is “King of Jazz,” the Universal super-musical extravaganza, starring Paul Whiteman and his internationally famous orchestra, “King of Jazz” brings to tho alltalking, all-singing, all-dancing and alltechnicolour screen the most scintillating and colourful sound production so far envisioned by any film production. It is the most costly, the most elaborate, the most spectacular and the most entertaining revue over presented on cither stage or screen, a veritable “revue of revues,” which is loaded with the most celebrated stage, and vaudeville headliners and the greatest stars of the studios. The picture, consisting of eight most stupendous musical spectacles between which are interspersed innumerable specialities and comedy acts, dramatic skits and blackouts, is filmed entirely in technicolour, tho most beautiful girls, tho most gorgeous costumes, and the most lavish sets are presented as tableaux of loveliness never before even conceived. Laura La Plante, John Boles, the sensation of the singing screen, Jeanette Loff, Stanley Smith, the famous Russel Market dancers, Grace Hayes, Billy Kent, Charles Irwin, Paul Upward, Al Norman, Tommy Atkins’ sextet and Nell O’Day, all headliners of the vaudeville stage, the celebrated Sisters “G”’, the dancing rage of Europe, brought specially from Berlin, Rose Statler, Jeanie Lang and countless others from all spheres of tho entertainment world appear in their choicest numbers.