ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 17, 19 December 1927, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

THEATRE DE LUXE. BIG CAST IN “LOVE’S GREATEST MISTAKE.” One of the most sensational stories yet seen in Palmerston North is now being screened at the Theatre do Luxe. Edward Sutherland has filmed Frederic Arnold Rummer’s serial, “Love’s Greatest Mistake,” with Josephine Dunn, James Hall, Evelyn Brent, William Powell, Iris Gray and Frank Morgan in the principal roles. Miss Dunn plays the leading feminine role and Iris Gray is in an important characterisation. “Love’s Greatest Mistake” tells the story of a young country girl on her first visit to New York, and of her meeting a rich man and mistaking his attentions . for real love till she finally finds the real meaning in her heart. Altogether “Love’s Greatest Mistake” is well-rounded drama. It has delicious touches of comedy here and there to set off the seriousness of the story. Excellent supporting features and delightful music by the orchestra do Luxe complete the bill. The plan is at Berryman’s or telephone 5050 for reserves. KOSY THEATRE. SPLENDID VARIETY PROGRAMME. • Love, mystery, romance, intrigue and comedy form the pleasing mixture of features in “Convoy,” the star attraction at the Kosy. This is a production that gets away from tho usual channels of mystery plots and counter intrigues and introduces a new type of gang breaker. A girl in this case pits her wits against tho cleverest brains of a secret service and wins out. But to do this her own yearning for love and happiness has to be denied. The system she uses lands her in a serious position, but in the end she rises from the depths where she had been forced, and gets all the honour duo to her pluck and spirit. The supporting feature is “Bobbed Hair,” starring Mario Provost and a huge cast of capable and well-known actors and actresses, including Kenneth Harlan, Louise Fazenda, John Roche, Emily Fitzroy and Rccd Howes. It is a romantically adventurous tale of a girl who did not know which of two men she loved, so she ran away with a third. An exciting and dramatic story of revenue agents and smugglers, of masquerade bolls a"nd legacies is “Bobbed Hair.” PALACE THEATRE. REGINALD DENNY IN BIG COMEDY Reginald Denny’s big comedy production, “Fast and Furious,” provided Saturday evening’s largo audicnfco at tho Palaco Theatre with excellent entertainment. “Fast and Furious” is one of the most amusing films that has been shown for a long while. And it has tho dominating personality of Reginald Denny, The English actor who has been a long while now at Hollywood. Thero is romance, thrills and motor car racing in “Fast and Furious,” and pretty girls who dance wonderfully. It is really tho best film that Reginald Denny has turned out since he put the gloves on “The Leather Pusher,” a series of events that attained considerable popularity in movieland. Reginald Denny is surrounded by supporting players who provide excellent foils for his comedy antics. Barbara Worth makes a charming leading lady and Claude Gilliwater, Armand Kaltz, Leo Morgan, Chas. K. French, Wilson Benge and others are splendid in (supporting roles. Additional features of this magnificent programme are the splendid supports including gazette, cartoon and •comedy and tho excellent musical embellishment provided- by the talented Palaco Select Orchestra. Patrons are earnestly advised tp make their reservations as early as possible as another packed house is inevitable, The box plan is available at Martin’s, or there may be enquiries made by telephoning 5328. GILBERT AND SULLIVAN OPERAS. “RUDDIGORE” AND “PATIENCE.” To-morrow evening the specially-organ-ised J.. C. Williamson Comic Opera Company, will begin their attractive repertoire of Gilbert and Sullivan productions at the Opera House. The first production will, bo “Ruddigore,” described by many as one of the most enjoyable of the series, and now played for the first time in New Zealand. When “Ruddigore” was revived in London it created a great sensation, and was considered equal in every respect to the other operas with which theatregoers are more familiar. It is really a travesty on tho lurid melodrama of the last century, and both Gilbert and Sullivan revelled in the task of holding up to ridicule the plays full of dark deeds and love scones. Gilbert has many jibes at the customs of the day, and it is stud that his merry quips and satirical sayings have a strange appropriateness to-day. Tho music is bright and tuneful throughout. “Ruddigore” will be followed by “Patience,” which is considered to show Gilbert- at his cleverest and Sullivan at his melodic best. None of tho Gilbert and Sullivan operas is richer in individual numbers. The central characters aro in the hands of Miss Strella Wilson in tho namo part, Mr Charles- Walenn as Bunthorne, Mr John Ralston as Grosvenor, Mr James Hay as Lieut, the Duke of Dunstable, Mr Bernard Manning as Colonel j Calverly, and Mr Lance Fairax as Major Murgatroyd and Miss Winifred Williamson as Lady Jane. A special matinee will be given on Wednesday of “lolanthe.” Box plans are now open at tho Opera House.