ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 114, 10 April 1930, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

PALACE TALKIES. . DOUBLE STAR PROGRAMME. “The Lone Wolfs Daughter,” the Columbia production at the Palace Theatre, is the greatest of the Lone Wolf stories by Louis Joseph Yance. Once more Bert Lytell, who created the role in pictures, comes to the screen as the ’ famous cracksman. This time he is presented in entirely new surroundings.. The col- • ourful and luxurious appointments of antique nuction rooms, palatial residences and i country estates made gay by week-end i parties furnish ideal backgrounds for tho . mystery, action, intrigue and plotting of a ; pair of international crooks, who use the “Lone Wolf’s” daughter as a deooy. Her ! love affaijs prove a snare for the cracks- | man, who is taxed to the limit of his skill 1 and ingenuity in sliding out from under : the arm of the law. An excellent cast sup- ' ports Lytell. A comedy of marital mix-ups 1 involving wayward husbands, suspicious, gossiping wives and charming stenographers, entitled “The Fall of Eve,” is. the second attraction at the Palace to-night. This 100 per cent, talking epic boasts the following celebrated cast: Patsy Ruth Miller, Ford Sterling, Jed Prouty. Plans are at tho Central Booking Office. “MADAME X” ON SATURDAY. “Madame X,” the clever mystery play of the stage, comes to tho Paluco Theatre on Saturday. Ruth Chatterbon plays the part of Mudamc X, the woman mysterious, alone, braving a world of men. And her sin was love-hunger. Her husband was a man who could 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 rise again with dramatic swiftness and power and she is brought back to the glittering scenes of her past triumphs and the most soul-sear-ing trial of a woman’s life ever recorded. This is by far and away the greatest alltalking picture. Plans are now open. KOSY THEATRE. “RAMONA” A TRIUMPH FOR STAR AND ACTOR. Brilliant, glamorous, pictorial, scintillating with romantic charm, vibrant with dramatic tensity, dynamic in its emotional moments, poignant in its bitter tragedy—that is “Ramona,” the United. Artists photoplay now showing at the Kosy Theatre. “Ramona” is a screen triumph. Its continuity, direction, acting, photography and scenic vestment stamp it as one of the finest, most artistic pictures ever produced. Dolores Del Rio as “Romona” is superb. She invests her role with, sincerity, deep understanding, poignant feeling and artistic conception. “College” offers Buster Ivcaton in an entirely new setting and presents his frozenfaced antics against a quickly shifting background of baseball games, track meets, regattas and fraternity celebrations. He is the boy, bright enough alumnus of a little high school, but not so big a fish in the larger collegiate pond, especially as the littlo lady of his heart insists that he demonstrate his athletic prowess. The finale of the picture occurs at the annual boat race, Buster hoping to be coxwain of his college crew-. DE LUXE TALKIES. “THE BATTLE OF PARIS.” A new type of picture made its appearance at the Theatre de Luxe yesterday, in the form of “Tho Battle of Paris,” a Paramount all-talking and singing production, which will remind most ex-service men of very pleasant memories. “The Battle of Paris” is stirringly presented in a new comedy style, but it is far superior to any other attempts that have been made to bring such a style of story telling to the screen, for it is really quite engrossing. Tho story is that of a young waif who sells music on tho streets of Paris before the war, Zizi (Charles Ruggles) is her partner. In the scurry before the polico raid, Georgie (Gertrudo Lawrence) meets a young American artist, Tony, and they fall in love. War is declared, and Tony enlists. While nursing in a large hospital in Paris, Gertrude becomes tho pet of three, strange friends, the three musketeers. It will spoil tho picture to tell you tho rest, but one will say this much, the action is as stirring as you can imagine. The short supporting featurettes include an all-dialogue comedy “He Loves the Ladies”; a song cartoon, “In tho Shade of tho Old Apple Tree” and a Paramount Sound News. “THE COCOANUTS.” Tho strangeness of tho names of tho , Marx Brothers might at first seem confusing and queer, but theso are only stage names. Yet so popular have the comedians become that they are now known to one another as well as to the general public by the" names which they adopted for their stage career. Chico’s real namo is Leonard, Harpo’s is Arthur, Grouchos is Julius and Zeppo is Herbert. Their quaint humour and uproarious comedy arc to bo seen and heard for the first time in the Paramount all-talking and singing sensation, “The Cocoanuts.” This is really tho first musical comedy that has appeared on the screen exactly as presented on tho stage, and the same as the famous musical show that took New York by storm. “Tho Cocoanuts” will open at the Theatre de Luxe next Saturday at 2 p.m.