ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 156, 3 June 1929, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

AT THE PALACE. “SHOW GIRL” PLEASES PACKED HOUSE. Light and airy as a soap bubble, about as irresponsible and surely one of the most perfect forms of divertissement that has come this way in a long time is “Show Girl,” the new First National picture featuring Alice White, now at the Palace Theatre. This little girl with her blonde hair has proved in this picture that she has the talent to create a role. For J. P. McEvoy’s heroine was simply a character on paper until Alice invested her with life. Tho direction by Alfred Sauted is superb. The scenes on the stage during musical comedy rehearsals present many shapely girls, big sets and plenty of action. Miss White tops everything with her effervescent personality. Charles Delaney pleases by bis work as Jimmy: Donald Reed. Lee Moran, Gwen Lee, Kate Price, Jimmie Finlavson, Richard Tucker and many others mako up a cast of adequate principals. There is nothing serious about “Show Girl.” It is even flippant, glib, supremely sophisticated. But it is entertainment and as such it is entitled to its sharo of approval. It is clean and clever. KOSY THEATRE. DOUBLE STAR BILL. A packed house at tho Kosy on Saturday night greeted a wonderful programme. In “Mademoiselle I’arlev-Voo,” jAliss Brody has the role of a theatrical manager, and she produces a revue with which she hours the provinces. But the show is not a succesn, and during one of the final performances a valuable ruby is stolen. To fall in with the plans of a detective, she carries on tho revue, and is "the moans of finding the thief and murderer, and bringing him tp justice. In addition Crock, the world renowned clown will be seen in a story of circus life entitled “What For.” His companion on his travels through the country side is a monkey named Barbara, whoso antics and methods of providing herself with food leave her beholders aghast. Grock on arrival in Paris with his menagerie is a comical figure, and as such he attracts the notice of two film promoters who see in him a type for which they have been seeking. How he loses and regains Barbara, misses a fortune by ono spin of a lottery wheel and eventually ends up at a music hall is shown in this very interesting little film which had an extended run in London. The management can highly recommend this programme which will be repeated to-night. THEATRE DE LUXE. “LONESOME,” A BIG SUCCESS.

A new kind of picture, so simply told that it suggests greatness, and in which an everyday boy and girl are the hero and heroine and lonesomeness is the villain, opened at the Theatre do Luxe on Saturday before large and appreciative audiences. The picture is Universal’* muchheralded “Lonesome.” It was directed by Paul Fejos, a former Hungarian medical man, drama-technician and director. “Lonesome” is a picture of much power although its story is simple and appealing. It tells of a boy and a girl lonely in a great city who meet to find in each other tho love each was seeking. They _ find eaph othor in a surprising climax. Glenn Tryon is tho boy and Barbara Kent the girl. Both are excellent. Fay Holderness, Gustave Ratios, and Eddie Phillips appear in brief “bits.” Tho box plan is available at tho Central Booking Ollice, Majestic Buildings, Broadway, ’phone 7178, up to 5 p.m. when it is transferred to the theatre, ’phone 5050. BEBE DANIELS ON WEDNESDAY.

Neil Hamilton has joined the ranks of the motion picture players who have turned their attention to vaudeville. The leading man of “Beau Gcste,” “Something Always Happens,” and others, plays a financiallyembarrassed, down-at-tho-heels, but seifassured vaudeville performer in Bobo Daniels’s “Take Me Home,” her latest starring Paramount picture. This role is Neil Hamilton’s first under his new contract and his second opposite the vivacious Alias Daniels, for lie recently appeared in the part of a newsreel cameraman in “Hot News.” Box plans for “Take Me Home” are now open at the Central Booking Office, Broadway.