ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 223, 16 August 1930, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

DE LUXE TALKIES, HOOT GIBSON IN WESTERN THRILLER. Hoot Gibson, “Tho Flying Cowbqy,” appears in tho most exciting picture of his adventurous career in “Trailing Troublo,” at the Do Luxe Theatre this ovening. Gibson combines horses and aeroplanes in his latest Universal all-talk-ing comedy, the scenes of which range between a westorn ranch and Kansas City. Hoot, as the cowboy entrusted with a shipment of horses, is marked as prey by a band of city men, and a fine conspiracy is hatched for his undoing. Of course, there is a pleasant love story, and plenty of the western brand of humour which Hoot has made famous on tho screen. There is a supply of riding and fighting, and, as though this were not enough, Hoot throws in aeroplane antics, including a drop in a parachute. “Trailing Trouble" is well off the beaten track of western pictures, with an original plot, and something doing every minute. Mar'garct Quimby has the role of leading lady. Tho exceptional cast includes Pete Morrison, Olivo Young and William McCall. Tho supporting programme includes a Universal Talkie News, British News, a Sporting Youth scries, “Tho Take Off,” and “The Collegians,” “On tho Side Lines.” KOSY THEATRE. ■“FLAG LIEUTENANT."It would indeed be a pleasant task to mention by name all theso. officers and men of tho British Navy who gavo their timo and talents in tho making of the British picture, “Tho Flag Lieutenant,” which is now showing at the Kosy Theatre. Tho setting of tho romance of “Tho Flag Lieutenant” is the deck of tho battleship. The story is filled with the salt tang of the sea, and the spirit of daring and gallontry is the essence of tho drama. Tho friendship of two men is tho theme and the sacrifice of one, that tho other might get a chance, is tho main climax of the picture. “Tho Flag Lioutonant,” a Paramount British picturo rolcaso, was produced with tho hearty co-operation of the British Admiralty. “Tho Rod Danco” is a Fox foaturo with Dolores Dol Rio as a peasant girl, Tasia, who rises to fame on the stage of the Moscow Theatre and sways with her dancing the councils of revolution and the hearts of a nation. Charles Farroll is Grand Duke Eugen, favourito of tho Czar and a general of his armies, whose. fate at last rests in tho hands of' Ivan Linow, a giant six-foot Russian peasant and common soldier who becomes a "Red” general and a powor in tho new State. PALACE THEATRE. 100 FAMOUS STARS IN “HAPPY DAYS.” No mental picture can be drawn of “Happy Days,” tho all star, all talking Fox Movietone song romaneo which will begin an engagement at tho Palace Theatre to-day. It is tho most lavish picturo yet to reach tho screen and tho cast includes such well known porsonages as Will Rogers, Janet Gaynor, Charles Farroll, Walter Oatlott, George Jcssell, William Collier, senr., Victor McLaglen, Edmund Lowe, J. Harold Murray, El Brondel, Warner Baxter, Gcoge MacFarlano, Ann Ponnington, Marjorio White, Sharon Lynn, Dixie Lee, Richard ICeeno, Jaipos J. Corbett and a host of othor celebrities. The story concerns a minstrel troupe that plays tho locale opera houses along tho Mississippi River, travelling by steamboat. Colonel Billy Batcher, a lovable old character owns the show and when it goes on the financial rocks, tho colonel’s old friends, now stars on Broadway, coino to his aid and put on a minstrol show that rehabilitates his fortune.. Charles E. Evans, dean of American comedians, enacts the rolo of the colonel and tho love interest centres about Marjorio White and Richard Kecno. Benjamin Stoloff was di-rector-in-chief of this amazing and lavish spectacle. The credit for its staging goos to Walter Catlett,- Broadway’s droll jester. A very ‘ good supporting programme includes an all talking comedy, entitled “Fancy That,” an item by The Kontucky Jubilee Singers, and a Fox Moviotono News. REGENT THEATRE. PARAMOUNT FAVOURITES IN “SLIGHTLY SCARLET.” • Supported by a remarkably strong cast, Evelyn Brent and Clive Bnook come to tho Regent Theatre to-night in their first costarring Paramount picture, “Slightly Scarlet.” Theso stars made an outstanding hit in Paramount’s first all-talking picture, “Interference.” They are tremendously effective in this New Show World talking picture filled with fast action, romantic thrills, adventure and wholesome laughs. “Slightly Scarlet” keeps audiences on the qui vive every second. Each new situation is .a surprise. There is not a dull moment in the whole show from tho time that beautiful Miss Brent sees handsome Clive Brook in Paris and wishes she could know him. They finally meet, and then the real excitement begins. Each has a secret he dreads revealing to the other. Author and director have built up a clever suspense angle throughout the story. And yet “Slightly Sca<|t” is not a mystery story. It is romaneo, adventurous romance, in every sense. Paul Lukas is seen in another of those delightful menace roles which have made him 60 popular with film audiences everywhere. The cast includes Henry Wadsworth, Morgan Farley, Virginia Bruce and Eugeno Palette.