ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 113, 9 April 1930, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

DE LUXE TALKIES. GERTRUDE LAWRENCE IN BRIGHT MUSICAL COMEDY. Pals, the kind that stick together through thick and thin, so devoted that they are called the three musketeers. Three such friends, an Englishman, a Frenchman and an American, were resting in a French hospital; Georgie, a nurse, was more than kind to them. When her lover, on leave, failed to put in an appearance, tho three friends decided to arrange a party to help Georgio forget. In a crowded restaurant in Paris is staged one of tho gayest festivals of song and musio that that city of bright lights ever hoard. Her lover comos back, but only after Georgie had boon kidnapped. The above is a part of ‘the story of “The Battle of Paris,” the all-talking and singing Paramount picture coming to the Theatre do Luxe to-day. Gertrude Lawrence, the popular musical comedy 6tar, takes the lead, ably supported by a fine oast headod by Charles Ruggles. Miss Lawrence sings a number of popular airs of years gone by, as well as several now songs written especially for her. The supporting programme includes an all dialogue comedy, “Ho Loves the Ladies,” a song cartoon, “In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree,” and a Paramount Sound News. “THE COCOANUTS” ON SATURDAY. Paramount’s musical comedy all-talking picture, "Tho Cocoanuts,” will bo seen and heard at the Theatre de Luxe commencing next Saturday at 2 p.in. Tho “Four Marx Brothers,” famous Broadway comedians, have the starring roles in tho picture, and thoy are supported by a cast of Broadway musical comedy celebrities headed by Mary Eaton and Oscar Shaw. This production is an absoluto riot of mirth from first to last.

PALACE TALKIES. DOUBLE STAR PROGRAMME. “Tho Lone Wolf’s Daughter,” a Columbia production coming to the Palace Theatre to-night, is the greatest of the Lone Wolf stories by Louis Joseph Vance. Onco more Bert Lytoll, who created tho role in pictures, comos to tho screen as tho famous cracksman. This time he is presented in entirely new surroundings. Tho colourful and luxurious appointments of antique auction rooms, palatial residences and country estates made gay by week-end parties furnish ideal backgrounds for the mystery, action, intrigue and plotting of a pair of international crooks, who use tho “Lone Wolf's” daughter as a decoy. Her love affairs prove a snare for tho cracksman, who is taxed to tho limit of his skill and ingenuity in sliding out from the arm of the law. An excellent cast supports Lytcll. A comedy of marital mix-ups involving wayward husbands, suspicious, gossiping wives and charming stenographers, entitled “The Fall of Eve,” is tho second attraction at the Palaco to-night. This 100 per cent, talking epic boasts the following celebrated cast: Patsy Ruth Miller, Ford Sterling, Jed Prouty. Plans aro rapidly filling at the Central Booking Office. “MADAME X” ON SATURDAY. “Madame X,” tho clever mystery play of the stage, comes to the Palace Theatre on Saturday. Ruth Chatterton plays tho part of Madame X, tho woman mysterious, alone, braving a world of men. And her sin was love-hunger. Her husband was a man who oould not forgive. One follows her penitent anguish as she stumbles along tho downward path in all the countries of the world until her boy was menaced. Then the woman and mother riso again with dramatic swiftness and power and she is brought back to the glittering scenes of her past triumphs and the most soul-scar-ing trial of a woman’s life ever recorded. This is by far and away tho greatest alltalking picture. Plans are now open.

KOSY THEATRE. ' “RAMONA.” “Ramona,” now 1 showing at the Kosy Theatre, if a tale of love in nineteenth century California. It is a story of white men’s greed, the romance of a half-breed girl, and her Indian lover. There are five great dramatic climaxes' in tho picture—the romantic elopement of Ramona with Alessandro; the tragic death of their baby; tho wanton massacro of defenceless Indians bv a band of outlaws; tho cruel murder of Alessandro; and the beautiful restoration of Ramona’s shattered momory. Buster Keaton has a real story in “College,” a story which abounds in human interest. The picture opens with Buster playing a typical smalltown high school graduate, receiving his dipolma. He is a studious lad, tho 6on of an over-indulgent mother' who has reared him to be a Dookworm. Provincial professors have convinced the youth that brains are mightier than brawn, and in his graduation address he denounces athletics. But when he enters college, his sweetheart tells him he’ll have to become an athlete or she will never tolerate, him. So Buster buys all the trappings "and odors himseff as 4 sacrifice on the altar of strenuous sport —with amazing results!