DE LUXE THEATRE TO-NIGHT.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 26 May 1930, Page 4

DE LUXE THEATRE TO-NIGHT.

ANOTHER BIG- TALKIE ATTRACTION. The screen fare at the De Luxe Theatre opening to-night, presents Douglas Mac Lean in " The • Carnation Kid,” a fast-moving dramatic story of love, politics, elections, underworld machinations and many other elements of life in a busy city. Seen with MacLean are quite a number of wellknowa motion picture players, including Francis Lee, Lorraine Eddy, William B. Davidson, Charles Hill Mailes, Francis McDonald, Maurice Black and a host of types portraying the politicians and the gangsters and others. This Paramount-Chris tie-MacLean production goes through a wide range of fast moving scenes, beginning on a ttain when a typewriter salesman gets mixed up with "The Carnation Kid," a famous gangster from a city where gangsters flourish. There’s a romance on the train as well as a holdup; a chase of a girl in a car in tho city, ts well as a chase of the police and the well armed underworld characters; election campaigns with their torchlight parades, a vamping stenographer who falls for "The Carnation Kid’s' 7 stories of his exploits, and a typewriter salesman in considerable hot water all the way through. In addition a cdmcdy-farcc playette "The Pusher in the Face" and a cartoon "Ye Olde Melodies" will be screened. With a comfortably heated theatre and a talkie programme of exceptional merit an enjoyable evening's entertainment is assured.

Special atention is directed to the all talking, all singing, all dancing screen operetta “The Desert Song” which will bo shown in .natural colours commencing next Saturday. Following this the sensation of the year “The Three Live Ghosts.”