ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 306, 28 November 1927, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

PALACE THEATRE. SPORT COMEDY—“BABE COMES HOME.” A really fine baseball comedy-drama results from “Babe” Ruth’s good work in a part originally intended, it is said, for an experienced actor. The fact that a refreshingly novel love story and bubbling comedy are even more important than baseball in the picture will no doubt interest feminine patrons. Ruth scores as a comedian, as a screen lover, and —naturally—as a provider of thrills in baseball sequences. Miss Nilsson was never better nor more appealing, and Miss bazenda never funnier. Ethel Shannon, Lou Archer and Arthur Stone are among the supporting players, all with intriguing characterisations. The story, on Gerald Beaumont’s magazine serial, “Saul With Soap,” begins with the heroine as a laundry girl, and soiled baseball uniforms link the laundry with the diamond. Hie girl goes to investigate, sees the hero play and receives an introduction. Then comes their romance, with baseball incidental to an excellent and very human plot idea wherein the heroine tries to reform the hero, and promptly gets into somo very humorous difficulties. “Babe Conies Home” is. in short, a photoplay offering that the "whole family should enjoy and which will interest women a s well as the men and boys who are (locking into tho Palace Theatre to see America’s baseball idol on tho screen./ The splendid supporting programme includes comedy, news and gazette, with a fine programme of popular music, played by tho Palace Salon Orchestra. Seats may be reserved at Martin’s or by ringing 5328. KOSY THEATRE. THRILLING PROGRAMME. Another banquet for fans with an appetite for western melodrama with all the accompanying action, thrills, suspense and love will bo dished up for the patrons of tile Kosy Theatre when “The Prairie King,” a Universal-Jewel, will again be shown to-night. The famous. Hoot .Gibson, “ace” of western stars, is cast in a new role in this exciting photodrarna of the great open spaces. For the once lie forsakes his old calling of . chaperoning cows and take 6 on tho habilaments of a prospector in search of gold. As the scrappy, 1 hard-riding hero of the picture, Iloot uncovers his unexcelled horsemanship, his histrionic talents and a line of comedy portrayal that will endear him to the hearts of movie-goers who like lots of laughs. Tho beautiful titian-haired Barbara Worth plays tho part of tho captivating heroine and displays a vivacity, winsome charm and finesse that will win many adherents to her banner. The villain is Albert Priscoo. The rest of tho cast includes Charles Sellon and Rose Gore, two past masters in the art of creating laughter where gloom reigned before. Sidney Jarvis and George Periolat lend finished performances in their respective character roles. The supporting feature stars Maleom McGregor and Shirley Mason. It is “The Wreck,” the exciting story of a girl caught in the toils of two crooks and saved by a handsome man and his mother. It is a thrilling story of innocence at the mercy of scoundrels and of romance that triumphed over villainy. This magnificent programme also includes chapter 2 of “The Silent Flyer” with Silverstreak, king of dog actors. ' The might and courageous Silverstreak —half dog, half wolf —fights his way through one of the most breathtaking chapter plays ever filmed. THEATRE DE LUXE. GARY COOPER IN “ARIZONA BOUND.” A cast of unusual strength is a notable feature of “Arizona Bound,” the first picture presenting Paramount’s new Western star, Gary Cooper, and now showing at the Theatre de Luxe. There are four principal characters in the picture, and these important parts are in the hands of Cooper himself, Betty Jewel, El Brendel and Jack Dougherty. .The picture, abounds in .suspense and thrilling action, and its manner of unfolding reflects groat credit on John Waters, Paramount’s famous director of Zane Grey stories, and now assigned to insure tiie new star an auspicious start. The backgrounds are especially beautiful. The story deals with the adventures of-Cooper, regarded as rather a ne’er-do-well, but transformed by his love for his sweetheart and the necessity of relieving himself from unjust suspicion. How his problems are finally solved, makes a strong, .swiftly-mov-ing story. Cooper is aided by an admirable supporting cast, headed by tho beautiful “velvet-eyed girl,” Betty Jewel, and El BrendeL a comedian who is a positive l'iot of mirth. A splendid supporting programme and incidental music by the Orchestra de Luxe complete the bill. The plan is at Berryman's or telephone 5050 for reserves.