ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 101, 28 March 1929, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

KOSY THEATRE. REX BELL IN “WILD WEST ROMANCE.” Tho Kosy was well filled last night when a complete change of programme was presented to an enthusiastic audience. The latest addition to tho Fox company, Ilex Bell, was seen to advantage in “Wild West Romance.” This is his first picture for tho Fox company and, judging by its success, his future looks very bright. The scenes in this feature are laid in tho heart of Arizona and the story deals with a country boy who spends him time riding and. imagining phantom hold-ups. He rescues a tiny orphan and the two strike up a friendship and become firm friends, eventually disposing of a gang of thieves. Caryl Lincoln has the leading feminine role opposite Bell. Also showing is Barbara Bedford in “Business io£ Love.” Tho story unties around a lawyer who prefers to do anything but study law. The programme will again be repeated to-night and to-morrow. COMING SATURDAY. “Vamping Venus” and “Red Heels” arc the features of the big Easter Saturday programme at the Kosy. Charles Murray and Louise Fazenda' are tho stars in “Vamping Venus.” This is a story of liie in modern New York and ancient Greece, with one comedy situation piling upon another in rapid succession. Charlie Murray, who has contributed many funny characterisations to the screen in his long career, was never funnier than in the nolc of Michael Cassidy, “king” of his ward, who proves his political prowess in ancient Greece. Ho is ably supported in the funmaking by Louise Fazenda, who is one of tho most successful comediennes of the screen to-day. “Red Heels,” starring the famous Continental star, Lila Dainila, is the second feature. A fascinating story, it traces the life of a little dancer ill a Montmartre cafe, from the night she attracted the attention of a theatre manager to her subsequent “stardom” as tho idol of Baris, and then marriage to a man who is just a little too “stodgy.” In addition, “The Vanishing Rider” will also bo screened. This is tho final chapter and patrons are urged not to miss the end of this thrilling serial. THEATRE DE LUXE. SYD. CHAPLIN IN BIG COMEDY. Last evening, at tho Thcatro de Luxe Syd. Chaplin’s latest feature comedy, “Tho Fortune Hunter,” had its opening presentation and was enthusiastically received by a full house. “The Fortune Hunter” tells of a young scamp down on his luck; he is advised by a former pal to follow the latter’s success by making a drive on a small town, with the avowed purpose of marrying the richest girl there. He swoops down gaily on a little village, secures a job in a local drug store, becomes a model young man, is wooed by all the girls, young and old, among them being the boarding house keeper, and the fat waitress. His triumphal march includes also the winning of the banker’s beautiful and bejewelled daughter, played by Helene Costello, and the blonde Betty Graham, who makes up for poverty by other qualities. Then the store is robbed and Syu is suspected. Chaplin is moro amusing than ho has ever been — which is saying a lot. Picture-goers aro advised not to miss seeing him in “The Fortune Hunter.” This programme will be repeated to-night and to-morrow (Good Friday) night. The box plan is available at tho Central Booking Office, Broadway, ’phono 7178, or seats may be reserved at tho theatre, ’phone 5050. “STREET ANGEL.” Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell are again co-featured under the direction of I rank Borzago m “Street Angel,“ Fox falins super production, tho premiere presentation of wliich takes place at the Tlieatro do Luxe next Wednesday evening. It is said by critics throughout tho country that this romance of Naples is a fitting successor to “7th Heaven,” their triumph of fast year: In fact many go so far as to acclaim it as even greater than the powerful screen drama based on Austin Strong’s play. In this production Miss Gaynor plays the part of “Angolina,” a self-sacri-ficing, though cynical little Italian girl whose romance with Guino, an idealistic Italian painter, played by Charles F’arrell, forms tho plot ot the story. Tho box plan for “Street Angel” will open on Monday morning at the Central Booking Office, Majestic Building, Broadway, ’phone 7178. Patrons of the Theatro do Luxe are advised to mako early application for seats as capacity business is anticipated. AT THE PALACE. DALE AUSTIN’S PICTURE. Tim McCoy’s new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer vehicle, “Tho Bushranger,” is now at the Palace Theatre. In this picture, the first all-Australian romance ever filmed in America, a perfect replica of an Australian landscape was found for tho exterior scenes. An examination, however, showed that yucca, a distinctly Western plant never seon in Australia, was growing there. Because of a State law, designed to save this rapidly disappearing plant, it could not bo cleared away, so Chester Withey, the director, had to movo ten miles to another location whore no yucca grew. The new picture is a vivid romance of Australia’s early bushranging days—adventure, thrills and robbery under arms depicted, with amazing fidelity to our early history. Marion Douglas, herself an Australian girl, plays the heroine. Russell Simpson, Arthur Lubin, Edwin J. Brady, Rosemary Cooper, Billy Franey, Dale Austin (“Miss New Zealand”) and F’rank Baker, brother of the famous Australian sportsman, “Snowy” Baker, are among the players in tho new picture. Reginald Denny is tho attraction at the Palace on Saturday where ho plays in his latest laugh producer “Tho Night Bow.”