AMUSEMENTS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 90, 31 March 1932, Page 10

AMUSEMENTS

MUNICIPAL THEATRE HASTINGS “SKYLINE.” The towering buildings, the blazing light* of the streets, the onrush of traffic, the palatial hotels, the theatres, the shop.; and something deeper, the exotic mingling of innumerable race--the roar of its civilation, the stark man power of everything, the entangle meat of human destinies in a great city. All these are in Fox Films’ “Sky line,” showing at the Municipal Theatre, Hastings. “Skyline” tells how a youth leaves his cruel stepfather after his mother's death, and gets work on a skyscraper being erected by his real father, whom he doe. not know, but hates for having deserted his mother. How he falls in love with a sweet girl, and is rescued from a siren’s coils by his father, works toward the gripping climax of recognition. The ever popular Thomas Meighatportrays the role of the father, whil< Hardie Albright enact, the role of the boy. Maureen O’Sullivan appears as the girl with whom he falls in love. Myrna Loy and Donald Dillaway also have featured roles The cast supporting the featured players includes Stanley Fields, Jack Kennedy, Alice Ward. Robert McWade and Lee Shumway. The supporting featurettes include a comedy, “Land of the Shamrock,” a novelty and a News Real. Reserves al Denton Wyatt’s.

COBY TALKIES, HASTINGS “TRANSATLANTIC.” A man who probably has played more diversified roles than any other actor on the screen is enacting one of the featured roles in “Transatlantic,” the Fox romantic drama, which is showing at the Cosy Talkies, Hastings, with Edmund Lowe and Lois Moran in the leading roles. He is Jean Hersholt, who started his career as a jiortrait painter and who now applies his artistic ability to his astounding makeups such as the one he wears m this production. Hersholt, who has been in pictures since 1914, has played almost every conceivable type of role. He and the late Lon Chaney started experimenting with makeups together. They shared the same dressing room when they started their careers with

Universal and used to try out disguises on each other. Chaney tended toward the sinister, while Hersholt played more lovable characters. In “Transatlantic” he portrays ai» old German lens grinder, who has invested his life's savings in a trip to the fatherland on a de luxe ocean liner in the company of his young and beautiful daughter. Aboard ship he learns that the bank which issued his letter of credit had failed and that the president of the bank is a fellow passenger. Other passengers who further complicate the delicate situation are the banker’s wife, his mistress, a Robin Hood type of gambler and an infamous international crook. There are as supports to this great feature, a comedy, interest film, novelty and a news reel. Reserves may be had at Hall’s

ARCADIA TALKIES, HASTINGS ROBERT WOOLSEY IN “EVERYTHING’S ROSIE.” Romance, as it lives and flourishes in the grimy sawdust of side shows—in the patched, poverty-ridden interior of a medicine man’s home on wheels! —and laughs as they come in the supreme essence of humour —sublime laughs from sheer ridiculousnessbooming laughs from hilarious situations I That in spirit is in R.K.O. Radio Pictures “Everything’s Rosie,’’’ which opened at the Arcadia Theatre yesterday, starring the ace of comedians, Robert Woolsey. Woolsey soars to far higher comedy in this production even than he did with Bert Wheeler in their string of successes “The Cuckoos” “Half Shot at Sunrise,” “Hook, Line and Sinker.” and “Cracked Nuts.” As the faker who sells “Driko,” which cures everything from love to rheumatism ; as the petty crook with the great heart who adopts a helpless, abused waif and raises her to a creature of grace and beauty; as the auctioneer who sells “Big Bens’’ with “27 Jewel Swiss Movements,” Woolsey acts with more than his accustomed speed, yet finds opportunity to give some excellent pathetic acting that lends a depth of pathos as effective as it is surprising. Radio Pictures have found a new Robert Woolsey in this production, one whose fame should exceed that of the former Woolsey. The excellent cast includes Anita Louise, John Darrow, Florence Robert and Alfred P. James. The box plan is now open at the theatre shop, ’phone 4336.