King George Theatre

Hutt News, Volume 3, Issue 18, 25 September 1930, Page 5

King George Theatre

X ' ■ '■■■•■ OF THE GUARDS"

REGISTERS GREAT HIT.

Any picture which * brings John Boles's magnificent* voice to an audience is bound to be good entertainment >When ; -in addition, it has an appealing romance, magnificent drama, and a: theme like the "Marseillaise" song, there isn't much left to be desired. "Captain of the Guard/ which will be at the Prince Edward Theatre on Octoiber .Ist,, is a dramatic musical spectacle in all-sound, of the biggest episode in French histoiy. The theme is the spirit which led to the Revolution, as typified by the birth of "La Marseillaise,'' itself. The story by all odds the. moat''stirring piece of music ever written, is the glorious drama upon which the film is built. Morgan, a handsome young gentleman, is working the Mississippi, boats -with Ms "come on" assistants, Beardsley and Suzette, who is in love with him, when he falls in love with Ducy Blackburn.* Unknown to hian_, it is her father whom he inveigles into a poker game. Blackburn,' who is carrying a large sum of money, the greater part of , which has been entrusted to him to in- j vest, loses it all to Morgan in the game. While Blackburn staggers away to his cabin, L-uey, on deck; shows Morgan a locket which she says she will give with her heart only to the" man :she loves., Morgan and Lucy are interrupted in their love-making by Suzette, who, consumed with jealousy, denounces Morgan to Lucyj telling her what he is^ Mor4gan is speechless as Suzette blurts out that Morgan just took from Lucy's father all the money he had. Going to her father's cabin Lucy Ands Blackburn with a revolver contemplating suicide. He confesses the loss of money not his own to her, and, -.after dropping the gun overboard, she .goes to Morgan's eaTrin demanding that lie return his winnings to her father. Morgan, telling her that1 she comld never take back money won fairly in .-«, game, refuses. Lucy insists that her father was simply a sucker, saying that she herself can play poker better than he. Morgan, insisting' that the ' ; game with her father ■ was fair and Jhat he loves her, tells her tha.l; since he can play cards, he will:give her the chanoe either -of winning back the money for her father or of losing herself to him. .-■:>-■ Lucy desperately agrees, and Morganr ■^counts out ten chips for each of them -and opens a new deck of cards- Lucy loses all her chips, and' Morgan thensuggests that she stake the locket onher hand —the locket which goes only ••with her heart. Lucy, sure that she is "beaten, nevertheless throws the locket into the pot. Morgan, laying his own hand face, •down on the table, tells her that she -wins and pushes the chips, her father's money, and the locket to her, then leaves the cabin. Looking at his ca.r<3k sifter he has gone Lucy sees'that Mox*:gan held the winning hand, but allowed her to win the stakes. When she leaves the. cabin she Qv&s -that Morgan has gone, ashore. But as Tie stands there, looking at the retreating boat, a negro shuffles up to him «-nd hands him a note from Lucy— -in JOAN CRAWFORD COMING IN OUTDO OR., TALKJS ■•■•«;.; Metro-Goldyn-Mayer willvh present JToan Gra-wford at the King George. Theatre in " Montana Moon a musical romance of the West. The story is an original and Miss' Crawford's supporting east,. includes: John Mack XJrofwn, Dorothy Sebastian, Kicardo •Cortez, Benny Rubin, Cliff Edwards and Karl Dane. This is one of the first pictures to be ■filmed without the use of artificial scenery, all. the exterior scenes being -taken on a cattle ranch in tine San Jacinto M^unjains, 200 miles north of JLos Angeles"."," A large part of th^.extra cast has'xeernited ffoiri tie cowrboys employed on a local ranch. The story conems' a New York debutante -w?ho visits her -.-father's ;extensive holding's in Montana and falls in love" with^fcne owboy. The' conflict tween their love and the disparity in :their social positions forms a drama•tic situation. :li

Advance reports have it that "Montana Moon" is by far the most lavish production in which Miss Crawford has yet appeared, particular stress having been laid on the wealth of seenSte beauty on hand and the contrast between the Western locale and that of L the sophisticated Park Avenue environ-' . ment, with which the star has hereto- ; fore been nlmost exclusively associated. ; THE ROMANTIC HISTORY OF 'SPLINTERS. ' } . ■ . ■ "Splinters" as the screen shows it, t" is not just a motion picture but a real . life ronxanee which grew out of the War. It conimencd its famous career ; in the rest eaanps behind the lines, dcs veloped amidst the roar of guns and the sre&m of shells, spreading laughter , and hapipiness across the devastation of the; fields of Mandexs. One of Efng- , land's greatest generals realised the urgent necessity of mixing laughter and happiness with high explosives; he was groping for something that would revive his men's fallen spirits when a miracle happened-—he found Boug-et- ' Noirs which la-tor became "Splinters" 1 To Private Hal. Jones must go the credit or organising the first army concert party and the first "show'; on the battlefields. To beg, borrow or steal was Jones's motto during that time which he spent transforming a barn into something that bore, at least, some sort of re,semblance to a, theatre. Also he had to discover talent and early in his talent hunting expedition he was lucky to -find Beg. Stone- "the greyest j female impersonator in the world." : In the short-space'of ■'a. .few months Jones- got together, a'first .class concert party including "A Beauty Chords of Twelve Pcrfct Examples of Pulchritude" everymember of which was described as "a perfect gentleman." ".Splinters" gladdened the hearts of tens of thousands of soldiers in France and the entertainment's . all round excellence might be gauged by they; fact that it is still running, as a stage show in - the- large English centres. Now "Splinters" starts an entirely new phase of its life and becomes a talking picture; an entertainment to be enjoyed by -tli'c multitudes. ; NOTED bofttEDY STAR. Elizabeth Muirayprbvid^1 manylaughs in ''Lucky in Love.'' Elizabeth Murray, comedienne famous in musical comedy and vaudeville; is seen in the role of the landlady in Morton Downey's new Pathe talking and singing production '' Oome Back to Erin" which comes to the King George Theatre on Friday next. Miss Murray ahieved a triumph in *' Madam Sherry," "High Jinks," and "Sidewalks of New York," and other stage productions. She appeared in support of Marion Davies in the picture, "Little Old New York.'? Betty Laiwford is featuTed as leading woman opposite Morton Downey in «*C/ome Back to Erin" ; with. Halliwell Hoibbes, Colin Keith-Johnstone, J. M. Kerrigan, Mackenzie Ward and other noted stage "BEAU BANDIT" < Is Filmed entirely in Desert Locate. With the exception of a feY interior scenes, "Beau Bandit"Radiq Pifetiires 7' colcnrfua all-talking outdoor film, >fras .photographed and recorded in its natural locale. ', Intoi-tlie shimineriMg deserts/; of'vithe southwest, tlia€ lana%6'f-g&lfien sunsets and p^rple-nned-^ty'lineSi fife author, Wallace Smithy^ loosed * M&'^avalier- ■ ; bandit—a- Mexican renegffffetf From i tn^&rld rancHes and -namletg> of **3«£ same region, he dfew-'fiis rugged sheriff's .posse and principal'Snatlßfters. "LOVIN' THE LADIES."Lovin' the Ladies" givefc BdchardDix. the first,-chance hS has Sard injpietures to play a role he originally, created ,on the., stage. The film -:-is&* ■ adapte^it';; f roxC WiKiam' . L£.i;Baisa>s Broadway1 comM^, WI I^y^.Y^" Mfc * which.' Dix ,^as '*$&$* ago^ on the ;<&ew'York 'jhagfc '''v*ne P&y was an onte|andiiig,.Tirt " diucing its long •run on..B*oa^ay; aW is said to even stirp«a?..tiie original. I>ix: is cast as an electrician who attempts'to br;ea^ J^jttf; the smart B#t. Develop^inents- iprove ■'■'<■ to "be- unitenaTly amusing,, giving Dix great opportunity to demonstrate nig ability at S»nclling light «omedy,