ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 111, 7 April 1927, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

KOSY THEATRE.

“GOING CROOKED” AND “EXIT SMILING.”

“Going Crooked,” George Melford’s first picture for Fox Films, which is now showing at the Kosy 'theatre, has many original little twists that make it altogether intriguing. More than that, the director has carefully selected a cast' which fits the characters exceptionally well. Bessie Love plays the leading feminine role, that of a little adventuress, the only one in the gang of jewel thieves not afraid of the leader, Mordaurit. On a vacation she falls in love with the young district attorney, a part played by Oscar Shaw, who in the end goes crooked for a night to 6ave her from prison and a boy from the electrio chair. Gustav von Seyffertiz plays the part of the suave, crafty Mordaunt, who has made but one mistake in his entire career of crime—a mistake that proves fatal to him. Edwin Kennedy has the role of the stolid, blundering detective who is always on the verge of “discovering a solution,” but who never seems to see the obvious things that present themselves before his very nose. The plot is so well worked out and the story runs so smoothly that it seems to be happening to real people involving real lives. Bernard Siegel, Lydia Knott, William Worthington, Hank Mann and Evelyn Selbie complete the cast. “Exit Smiling” is a clever comedy drama chock full of laughs.

PALACE THEATRE.* S

“THE GREATER GLORY.”

How noble Austrian families, with generations of traditions behind them and empty cupboards before them, were humbled, while war barons and war vultures grew fat on the profits of the war, is brought to light in one of the season’s most entertaining screen dramas, “The Greater Glory,” heading the current programme at the Palace Theatre. “The Greater Glory” is the work of June Mathis, master mind of the screen. Miss Mathis is responsible for “ The Four Horsemen,” which brought Rex Ingram and Rudolph Valentino to the fore. More than a year was spent on the production of “The Greater Glory.” The picture is an adaptation of “Viennese Medley,” the celebrated novel by Edith O’Shaughnessy, wife of the American Ambassador at Vienna. The story is a poignant history of the fortunes of a fine old Viennese family before, during and after the war. The picture is startlingly realistic. The greater part of the scenes recorded are authentic and actually took plaoe in the once gay Austrian capital. The large cast of “The Greater Glory” is headed by Anna Q. Nilson, Conway Tearle, May Allison, lan Keith, Jean Hersholt and Lucy Boaumont. More than twenty other players of notie have supporting parts, and tho “extra” parts number about 1,600. Curt Rehfeld directed. This is his first picture, although he has been intimately associated with the films for more than ten years. The plan is at Martin’s, theatre phone 5328.

DE LUXE

“BORN TO THE WEST.”

“Born to the West” provides Raymond Hatton, whose comedy team work with Wallace Beery, in “Behind tho Front,” and “We’re in the Navy Now,” well remembered by theatre-goers, with many new laughs. “Born to the West” is Parninount’s picturisation of Zane Grey’s story. This time the little comedian is teamed with Jack Holt. Hatton, brave only when his pal, Jack Holt, as “Colorado” Rudd, is at -bis elbow, 6eems to wriggle in and out of troublo in a carefree manner all through tho picture. t’Born to the West” brings Jack Holt to the screen in one of his best roles to date. Margaret Morris and Arlette Marchal, representative beauties, furnish tho pulchritude and drama, the former a 6 the childhood sweetheart of Holt and Miss Marchal as a dance-hall girl. Paramount has provided a most brilliant supporting cast which includes George Siegman, Tom Kennedy, Richard Neil and Edith Yorke. There are no dull momcn:s and thrills abound. The picture is credited with being of the beet for 1927 and heads the bill at the Do Luxe Theatre.