ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 147, 21 May 1930, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

PALACE TALKIES. DOUBLE STAR PROGRAMME. Amid the raging tempest and the din of a mutiny abroad a three-masted schooner on the high seas is enacted one of the most thrilling all-talking prdductions that has yet been shown. It is Columbia’s “Hurricane” which is the feature at the Palace Theatre to-night. Tho capable cast is headed by Hobart Bosworth with Johnny Mack Brown, Leila Hyams, Allan Rosooe, Tom O’Brien and L. Mclntyre prominent in the supporting cast. Tho second feature tonight is entitled “The Younger Generation.” This Columbia special production is an adaptation of Fannio Hurst’s famous stage play, “It Is to Laugh.” Jean Hersholt has tho stellar role with Ricardo Cortez, Lina Banquette, Rex Lease and Rosa Rosanova featured. An exceptionally largo and capable cast including several children is in support of Hersholt and the featured players. Among the highlights are a tenement house fire, n daylight robbery on Fifth Avenue, and gay events in a Riverside Drive apartment. Tho action is tense. There aro dramatic moments interspersed by smiles as pathos gives way to humour. KOSY THEATRE. CONSTANCE TALMADGE IN “VENUS.” Constance Tabnadge’s latest picture “Venus,” which opens at the Kosy Theatre to-night, is not only a triumph for the star but a tribute to the intelligent and sensitive direction of its producer-director, Louis Mercantou. Based on the widely read French novel by Jean Vignaud, this United Artists’ picture concerns the unusual adventures of a jazz-mad princess, inconceivably wealthy and influential. Her escapades command so much of her time that her management of the largo trans-Atlantic steamship line she controls is distinguished by injustices. Her greatest injustice is directed at one of her best captains who engave= in a fight in which a man is killed. Without rtfading up on the case, the Princess discharges him summarily. Later when she sees the officer for the first time and learii3 that it was in defending her name that ho came into his disgrace, a change comes over the Princess. Under an assumed name she sots out to repair tho great wrong she has done him. llow she trails him to Africa and wins his lovo only to lose it a short time later when the captain discovers she is the Princess arc situations leading up to the climax of this dramatic romance. “Dancing Man” is .. ai: up-to the niinute comedy of domestic difiicu'ties with Maria Corda taking the leading role, supported by a fine cast. DE LUXE TALKIES. ALL-DIALOGUE AND SINGING COMEDY. “Excellent entertainment” is tho phrase which best classifies the latest Fox production, “Nix on Dames,” an all-talking movietone comedy which concludes at the Theatre de Luxe to-night. It is a tuneful, sparkling story of two women and two womenhaters, filmed against the colourful background of an actors’ boarding-house. The gentlemen with the anti-feminine complex are acrobats. In practising a new “stunt” one of them has his shoulder broken, and they decide to rest in New York. Two highly personable young ladies appear on the scene and life becomes quite complicated. All ends as happily as could be expected, with the two damsels getting in their most effective work at the finish. Messrs Gilbert and Baer’s catchy song numbers inaite it thoroughly enjoyable. Mae Clarke, Robert Ames and William Harrigan have the principal roles. In support of the principal feature, a number of admirably selected short subjects aro shown, including an all-talking comedy entitled, “Detectives Wanted”; a specialty item, Schubert Serenade; a Fox Movietone News, and a Paramount Sound News. “MARRIED IN HOLLYWOOD.”

Reported to mark a real event in screen history, “Married in Hollywood” should prove a delightful surprise to music-lovers and talkie patrons at its Palmerston North premiere at 2 p.m. to-morrow at the Theatre do Luxe. Tins Viennese love song, with its captivating Oscar Straus and David Stamper tunes, its gorgeous ensemble numbers, its colourful and diverting story, its pot-pourri of backgrounds ranging from a mythical Balkan kingdom to Hollywood, and its splendid cast, is, it is stated, the most entertaining offering that has yet appeared on the speaking screen. Opening with a unique and cleverly handled romance between a Balkan prince and an opera singer in Vienna, the story sweeps through a revolution, the flight of the leading characters to America, intimate glimpses of Hollywood life, authentic “be-hind-the-scenes” view of a huge film studio, and a charming climax. If Norma Terris and J. Harold Murray never do anything else in their lives, they will' have established Ihemselves even more firmly in the talkies than they have already done on Broadway. G’ombining two of the greatest singing voices ever heard on the screen with an admirable flair for both drama and delicious comedy, this team presents a flawless performance. Walter Catlett, Irene Palastv, John Garrick, Tom Patricola, Leila Karnclly, Lennox Pawle, Douglas Gilmore, and a host of celebrities distinguish themselves. The director, Marcel Silver immeasurably surpasses his earlier work with the “Fox Movietone Follies of 1929.” Intending patrons will be well advised to make early application to the Central Booking Office, ’phone 7178, for reservations.