KING GEORGE THEATRE and PRINCE EDWARD THEATRE.

Hutt News, Volume 3, Issue 30, 18 December 1930, Page 5

KING GEORGE THEATRE and PRINCE EDWARD THEATRE.

"THE UNHOLY THJIBiS."

The use of five separate voices in the most annbitious "first talMe" ever attempted by a star Diaries "The tTnhbly Three" Lon Cftaney's initial dialogue production for Metro-|Soldwyn--1 Mayer which wiil be snown at "the King George thea'ti-e on Saturday. y Not only does Chancy spealc but he ' also does a ventriloquist act, working with the dummy in an actual feat of ventriloquism, an art learned in his yttuth on the stage. •Chancy always kept in practice in ventriloquism, using it to amuse guests at parties at his home. , r "AXIAB PItEKCtt GEBTIE.'* Xmas Eve brings to patrons of the King George Theatre an unusual Radio Pictures' treat. Befoe Daniels and Ben Lyon, Hollywood's ideal sweethearts, "team" together in the all talking crook romance '' Alias French Gertie." This is their first appearance together and Miss Daniel's first straight dramatic role since the advent of the talkies. Adapted from "The Chatterbox" a successful play by Bayard Veiller the role imposes a test of Miss Daniel's dialogue abilities. One third of the star's lines are delivered in French, the other in the argot of the underworld. It/goes wit-hoiit saying that Bebe adds new laurels to her talkie fame. , . • • LOVE COMES ALONG." Prodigious evidence of Bebe Daniel's versatility is seen in her Second alltalking Radio starring picture "Love Gomes Along" showing at the King George Theatre next week. HeT golden voice, which is termed • the most startling sensation of the year in "Bio Rita" again is heard. In addition, shp plays the guitar and aaricels a Spanish tango with exceptional skill. Belbe also designed her own costuin&j for the production. Being of Sp'anisii descent herself, she helped Rupert Julian, director, to infuse . the right tempo into the play. Its locale is a mythical island ofl the coast of South Atoerica. More than once she was called upon to give the.correct pronunciation of a Spanish world.^ "THE HATE SffitP." ; Cmce again Britain risfes to the oc-'\<-,asion and has produced the great talk in^ picture surprise of the year. The dialogue from beginning to end is recorded with remarkable clarity and the cost includes players with remarkable pftwe'ra 6f elocution who are also distinonishea character artists. •*HT GAY MADRID." A Spanish setting was selected for the locale of Mmon NovaTro's new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer all talking and singing picture "In. Gay Madrid?' wliicn will open on the 27th at the King George Theatre. The chief sequences of the picture, take place in a. small Spanish university town and the atmosphere and general1 ieeMg of I>he picture is somewhat in the manner of Nbvarro's previous success "The Student ' Prince, >' in which he co-starred witW Norma Shear".Midnight Mystery." Radio Pi«t^ newest ail fctfSigrfltfHS Srama corned;loie King George Theatre on 27th December. Set afaink the background- of an isofei£& isTand oft the surf-beaten Maine coast in the black of nighty ".Midnight Mystery^ creates an atmos phere of nerve tingiing-mystery that i£ guaranteed to fiiill the most jaded^ theatregoer. It describes the tragic consequences of a "dummy" murder that takes on gruesome realism, and the solving of the mystery by the quickwit of a girl who is a member of the «ddly assorted house-party on this forsaken island. 'THE LOST ZEPPELIN" Some of the sound and picture sequences in "The Lost Zeppelin," the i : ; uem Art Films' Telease, ,featuring Conway Tearle, Virginia Valli and Ricurdo Corte'z, which is to be shown at the King George heatre on January 3rd were taken from four aeroplanes which trailed the Graf Zeppelin when she reached the Pacific Coast on her xound-tluMw-orld flight. This was the first time in the history, of talking and »«uud pictures that such an undertaking was attempted.

"THE BbGUE SONa." "The Eogue Song" is a romance laid jn the Caucasus Mountains of Russia. TibTaett has the rqle- of a bandit chief -who steals from the rich only to give to the poor in the manner of B!<ybin Hood. The songs are heard at consistent points in the story and do not interfere with the continuity of the plot. Included in the supporting cast are Catherine Dale Owen and the comedy team of Laurel and Hardy. The production is filmed entirely in technicolor. ; •• SWELIBE AD." The Prince Edward Theatre's change of programme next Saturday brings that popular aetoT James G-leason in the Cinema Art Films' all talking drama of ihe b6xing rint "SwelEiead" Johnny Walker, Marion. Shilling, Natalie Kingston Paul Hurst, Lilian Leigh 'ton and a ot of other good artists: sup£brt <3-leas6n in the A. P. Touliger story of a young fighter who achievessuccess throug-li. the support and env eowragement of his fiends and then Sets so sweUteaded that he loses his friends, loses his confidence, loses Ms Sfirl and neaTy loses his tite of champion. 1 'SEVEN HaiihSi *# iAIKPATE.' » ■!. - In a role he cUose himself from imdng all available dramatic mateTia, Richard D.ix comes to the screen of the Priuee Edlw^Trd Theatre next Monday. As the heTO-novelist of "Seven Key's to Baldpate" Dix begins his new career - as a star of Radio Pictures. • "COIJCJB^I! I.6VB'* All the witty wise cracks so insepaT -able from life on the campus are actually heard dlring the screening of '■' College Live" whtclT comes to the Prince Edward Theatre on 24th. "X3TTDER THE SOUTHEIUSr CROSS" A. screen production that s idestined to ive long in tlie memory, particularly of New Zealand audiences is the Universal Super production "Under the. Southern Cross"' which commences1 at the Prince Edward Theatre on Xmas Day. i