ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 4, 4 December 1931, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

KOSY THEATRE. “YOUNG DONOVAN’S KlD.’’ Rex Beach’s classic novel, “Big Brother,’’ under the title, “Young Donovan s Kid,” conclude., to-night at the Kosy Theatre. Interpreting the role of the gang leader is Richard Dix, who again covers himself with screen glory. Jackie Cooper, seven-year-old boy who leaped to stardom overnight in tho title role of “Skippy, plays the incorrigible Midge Murray. Playing the priest is Prank Sheridan, a grand old Irish trouper of fifty years’ dramatic experience. Marion Shilling, the beautiful daughter of the noted 6tngc director-pro-ducer, Edward Shilling, with a half dozon leading screen roles to hor credit, plays opposite Dix. Cast as “Cokey Joe” is tho sterling, vigorous actor, Boris Karloff. Fred Kelsey is tho laughable, “square-toe,” Collins. Bob Wilber, Congressional Medal of Honour man, plays tho murderous Monk Manilla. BUCK JONES IN “MEN WITHOUT LAW.” Tho western has regained popular favour with renewed vigour. During tho past few months tho vogue for this type of entertainment lias been astounding. As a result, every motion picture producing organisation has an entire company devoted to the filming of “westerns.” Audiences are thrilled at tho sight of a daredevil rider clattering down a stoop embankment in pursuit of local desperadoes, and they indulge in suppressed gasps as ho springs from his flying steed to the top of a runaway stage coach to rescue a tearful but pretty heroine from foul play at the hands of a villain. A western star who is on the crest of tho wnvo of popularity is Buck Jones. His latest film is “Men Without Law,” a Columbia picture coining to the Kosy Theatre tomorrow for three days. Buck is probably the most expert rider beforo the public today. Ho never employs a double. He has had many years of experience at the game, and as a result what would mean death to the average rider is merely child’s play to him. PALACE THEATRE. “UR FOR MURDER” STARTS TO-MORROW. To-morrow marks the opening of “Up for Murder,” the Universal love d>ama, which has been described as one of tho outstanding pictures of the season, and which conics to the Palace Theatre for an engagement of three days. Lew Ayres and Genevieve Tobin, two of the most popular of the screen’s newer players, appear in this production, which is a powerful love drama told against tho seething activities of u. great newspaper office. The story is a constant succession of dramatic situations brought about by the existence of the “eternal triangle,” in which the cub reporter and the society editor are unmarried, but the publisher is not. It is when tho young reporter, having fallen desperately in love with the conductor of the society column, discovers the existing situation that ho takes matters into his own hands and brings about a tragedy that seriously affects each one of the three principals. Monta Bell, who was for many years a newspaper man, directod “Up for Murder,” and has brought to the screen what is said to be a perfect picture of a great metropolitan publishing plant. Several of the scenes introduce some of the American west coast newspaper writers, and for other scenes many workers in various departments of Los Angeles dailies were secured as extras. AT THE REGENT. FINAL PRESENTATION OF . “ESCAPE.” That brilliant English celebrity, Sir Gerald du Maurier, will finally appear at tho Regent Theatre to-night in John Galsworthy’s screen classic, “Escape.” “DREYFUS” OPENS AT MATINEE TO-MORROW.' “I was suffering martyrdom, but I straightened myself and made a supremo effort to rally my strength, trying to sustain myself by tho remembrance of my wife and children. Immediately after tho formal reading of tho sentence I excluimed to tho troops: ‘Soldiers, an innocent man is degraded! Soldiers, an innocent man •is dishonoured! Vivo la France! yive l’armee!” An adjutant of the Republican Guard came up to me and rapidly tore the buttons from my coat, the stripes from my trousers, and tho marks of my rank from my cap and coat-sleeves, and then broke my sword across his kneo .... I saw all thoso emblems of honour fall at my feet. Then, in tho midst of my agony, but with head erect, I shouted again and again to the soldier's and tho assembled people, ‘I am innocent!’ I hoard tho howls of tho deluded mob; I could feel the shudder" with which it looked upon me in the belief that the condemned man in their presence was a traitor to his country, and I made a superhuman effort to create in their hearts tho commiseration duo to an innocent mail unjustly condemned.” This account of his terrible degradation, following a trial that sentenced an innocent man to worse than death, poignant as it is in Dreyfus’s own words, is yet more realistically conveyed by the British Internationa! Picture, “Dreyfus,” which will be presented at the Regent Theatre to-morrow. On the screen will be seen the whole tragic story of Dreyfus produced in a oompletoly authentic film form by F. W. Kraeincr and Milton Rosrner, and portrayed by the finest cast ever assembled for a talking picture. Plans are now on view.