"MISTER ANTONIO."

Hutt News, Volume 3, Issue 26, 20 November 1930, Page 5

"MISTER ANTONIO."

I Booth Tarkington is never anything but delightful.and to know that he is the author of "Mister Antonio," which fctars Leo Carrillo and Virginia Valli •at the Prince Edward Theatre on WedTiesday nest is a guarantee Of genuine i entertainment. . ; "Mister Antonio" was played on the *gtage by Otis Skinner and now LeoOarrillo, one of the stagers greatest -dialect actors, makes this screen debut *in an all-talking Cinema Art Films production, synchronised by RCA Photophone. Anitonio Giovanni Rafaello Garibaldi Mussolini Camaradino is the name of fthis lavattle man, who sells flowers in the winter in the crowded East Side streets of New York and with the first 'whiff of Spring, turns to the open road )-with his hurdyf guxdy. ' . i TTis travels take- him to a small town '/that boasts ofv its purity. To the itramps it is known as t-he town where the only hand-out is a ten day sentence and. wßtere even the eddties in the jail lam % allowed to T>ite r--'---ychr : on'; Suti- j jfi&yl" ■ . - . ..- To this purity centre comes Mister Antonio to park his music box in front •pf "the mayor's house" and''Tend ' the /peaceful air of Staiday inorning" with t .'the strains of ''Onward Christian SolJidaeTs./' Tony and'the mayor have iiet j iib'ef &ro, in a New Y6rk speakeasy when j^the maydr ihad^oigotten that he 'Stood j fbr purity,' and that he wajs a 'paragon of morality,' and Tony's generosity and Good Samaritanism had saved tlie mayor 7s 'spdtl^sa tepntatioii. '" , Now; Tony has a favour to ask of \his! "friend tne mayor" on behalf of la beautiful young girl. It is a most vawkward situation for the mayor, and \bec6mes a pretty serious one for Tony, who has fallen in love "at first lookj^n'gs" with the lovely and unjustly June, played by Miss Talli. j James Flood directed "Mister Anf tonio" uTider the supervision ~of Cairey Wiison. The cast includes Gareth Hughes, Frank Rei&her, Eugenic Bes- ( ■ aerer, Betty Francisco, Fxankiin Lewis j land many others.. , I