ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 115, 11 April 1930, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

KOSY THEATRE. “RAMONA,” AND “COLLEGE.” “Ramona,” the book written by Helen Hunt Jackson, is in its 94th printing. It i 9 still one of tho very live books in novel history. The movies have made it into a feature film play, and it will be screened at tho Kosy Theatre finally to-night. It is a gripping story of early California, and is filled with romance, as if those witnessing it on tho screen were turning the pages of golden history in the days of the missions and tho Spanish Dons. If Buster Keaton has any hobby, it is athletics. There is hardly a form of strenuous sport that _ the star doesn’t enjoy. In his _ new picture, “College,” this fact is vividly demonstrated, for Keaton playa baseball, takes part in track meets, and wins a place in a rowing crew. DE LUXE TALKIES. A BRIGHT MUSICAL COMEDY. Overseas there were two distinctive engagements, tho front lino trenches and “The Battle of Paris,” or the fight for fun in Paris. It is this fight for amusement, the lighter side of the war, that supplied the title for. the all talking and singing picture, starring Gertrude Lawrence and which will conclude at the Theatre de Luxe to-night. Tho frivolity, the fun, the music that was war-time Paris have all been wound into one engrossing story of a young street girl who meets an artist and falls in love with him, only to have him taken away by the war, and when he returns' she finds him in another’s arms, and battles with all her wiles for the man she loves. On this programme is an all talking comedy, "He Loves the Ladies”; a song cartoon, “In the Shade of tho Old Apple Tree,” and a sound news, etc. “THE COCOANUTS.” “Tho Cocoanuts,” the Paramount musical comedy which has its premiere at the Theatre de Luxe at 2 p.m. to-morrow, will send one into roars of laughter at the mad antics of the Four Marx Brothers who are starred in the show. But one will also be charmed with the wonderful dancing in the picture, the ballet being perfect and the solo dancing and eccentrics something worth looking at. Then there are tho lilting melodies from tho tuneful ear of Irving Ber lin, who was responsible for tho lyrics and music. The dancers are some of the most famous ballets of America, and their work will call forth rounds of applause, as they tread in faultless stop to the intricacies of the ballet, both jazz and classic. Mary Eaton, whoso lyric notes are heard to advantage in “When My Dreams Come True,” is one of the musical comedy stars of Broadway, and for a long time one of the stare of the world famous Ziegfeld Follies. In commenting on “The Cocoanuts,” the Daily Chronicle, London, said: “If all talking pictures were as entertaining as ‘Cocoanuts, there would be no doubt about talking pictures being here for good —for their own good, and for our good. It is the happiest talkie in London. PALACE TALKIES. LAST NIGHT OF DOUBLE STAR PROGRAMME. Two interesting talking pictures—“ The Fall of Eve,” starring Patsy Ruth Miller, aaid “Lone Wolf’s Daughter,” starring Bert Lytell will be finally presented at the Palace Theatre to-night. “MADAME X” AT 2 P.M. TO-MORROW Crowded houses will undoubtely welcome the six night season of "Madame X,” which commences at tho Palace Theatre to-morrow and continues until Friday, April 18. The filming of this, one of the greatest dramas of the legitimate stage, is among the finest achievements of the screen. Sarah Bernhardt brought fame to “Madame X” as a stage play, but one could hardly imagine a more sincere and finished performance than Ruth Chatterton gives as the "Madame X” of this talking picture, which has scored such triumphs wherever it has been shown. “Madame X” was 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 the downward path in all tho countries of the world until her boy was menaced. Then one sees the woman and mother rise again with dramatic swiftnesß and power and see her brought back to tho glittering scenes of her past triumphs and tho most soul-sear-ing trial of a woman’s life ever recorded. This is by far and away the greatest alltalking picture.