ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 116, 12 April 1930, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

DE LUXE TALKIES. “THE COCOANUTS”—HILARIOUS MUSICAL COMEOY. “The .Cocoanuts,” tho hilarous musical comedy success starring those incomparable comodians, tho Marx Brothers, considered by many to bo tho funniest and most talented bntortainers on the stage to-day, is tho current attraction at the Theare Do Luxo. Needless to say, the Four Marx Brothers, whose gay, irrospressiblo antics wore rosponsiblo for . the original success of tho “Tho Cocoanuts,” play tho samo roles in this audible scroen version as they did in tho Now York presentation. Supporting these famous stars are a . number of Broadway favourites, including Mary Eaton and Oscar Shaw. To try and oxplain what tho Marx Brothers do _in this gay musical comedy is almost an impossible task. Perhaps it would be better to tell what they don’t do. Well, they don’t sing, but tlioy do everything else in tho world from irresistible, hilarious clowning to Harpo’s enchanting performance on tho harp. Thon there is Cnico who plays the piano in comic fashion, meanwhile performing in a manner that would do most pianists credit. Ho, too, is a splendid entertainer, not to forget Groucho, whom many consider to be tho funniest of this outfit. “Tho Cocoanuts” is an all-talking, singing and dancing production, especially notable for its remarkably tuneful music which was specially written by the popular composer, Irving Berlin. On the supporting programme is an all talking comedy, “My Wife’s Birthday,” A song number. “Salt Water Ballads,” and the latest Moviotono News. PALACE TALKIES. “MADAME X,” BRILLIANT ALLTALKING MELODRAMA. Crowded houses will undoubtedly welcome the six-night season of “Madame X,” which commenced at the Palace to-day and continues twice daily until Friday, April 18. The filming of this, one of the greatest dramas of the legitimate stage, is among the finest achievements of tho screen. Sarah Bernhardt brought fame to “Madamo X” as a stage play, but one could hardly imagine a more sincere and finished performance than Ruth Chatterton gives as “Madame X” of this talking picture, which nas scored such triumphs wherever it has been Bhown. “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 swiftness and power and see her brought back to tho glittering scenes of hor past triumphs and the most soul-sear-ing trial of a woman’s life ever recorded, 'ibis is by far and away tho greatest alltalking picture. Plans for the season are on view at the Central Booking Office, and indications are for capacity houses. KOSY THEATRE. WEEK-END PROGRAMME. “The Three Passions,” now showing at the Rosy Theatre, has several big features of which the keynote is the young hero’s revolt against his father’s materialistic creed and his still bigger struggle against his sense of vocation and his love for “Blossy.” There are scenes of a great strike of workmen at Bellamont’s shipyards, of the "night.life” of modern London, contrasted with tho squalor of its slums; the peaceful quadrangle’s of centuries-old Oxford colleges throw into grim relief the 6bioke and clamour of a great industrial and the tragedy so often to bo found there. “The Threo Passions” is Rex Ingram’s fourth European-made picture. Interiors were made at his Nice studio, and the exteriors in England. “The House of Marney” is an exciting story of love and adventure on the east coast from John Goodwin’s famous novel of the samo name. Cecif Hepwprth directed with tho 6aine sure touch as made his “Alt’s Button” famous.