ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 5, 5 December 1931, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

PALACE THEATRE. “UP FOR MURDER.” “Up for Murder,” the Universal lovo drama, which has been described as one of tho outstanding- pictures of the season, is at 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 a great newspaper office. The story is a constant succession of dramatic situations brought about by tho existence of the “eternal triangle," in which tho cub reporter and the society editor are unmarried, but the publisher is not. It is when the young reporter, having fallen desperately in lovo with the conductor of tho 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 tho three principals. Monta Bell, who was for many years a newspaper man, directed “Up for Murder,” and has brought to the screen what is said to be a perfect picturo 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. “DREYFUS”—STORY OF A FRENCH MARTYR. “I was suffering martyrdom, but I straightened myself and mado a supreme effort to rally my strength, trying to sustain myself by the remembrance of my wife and children. Immediately aftor the | formal reading of the sentenco I exclaimed Ito the troops: ‘Soldiers, an innocent man is degraded 1 Soldiers, an innocent man is dishonoured 1 Vivo la Franco! Vive l’armee I” An adjutant of the Republican Guard camo up to mo and rapidly tore the buttons from my coat, tho stripes from my trousers, and tho marks of my rank from my cap and coat-sleeves, and then broke my sword across his knee .... I saw all these 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 soldiers and the assembled people, ‘I am innocent!’ I heard the howls of tho deluded mob- I could feel the shudder with which it looked upon me in the belief that tho condemned man in their presence was a traitor to his country, and I made a superhuman effort to create in their hearts the commiseration duo to an innocent man 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 tho British International Picture, “Dreyfus,” which is being shown at the Regent Theatre to-night. On tho screen will be seen tho whole tragic story of Dreyfus produced in a completely authentic film form by F. VV. Kraomer and Milton Rosmer, and portrayed by the finest cast ever assembled for a talking picture. Plans are now on view. KOSY THEATRE. • BUCK JONES IN “MEN WITHOUT LAW.” The western has regained popular favour with renewed vigour. During tho past few months the vogue for this type of entertainment has been astounding. As a result, every motion picturo producing organisation has an entire company devoted to the filming of “westerns.” Audiences are thrilled at the sight of a daredevil rider clattering down a stoop embankment in pursuit of local desperadoes, and they indulge in suppressed gasps as he springs from Ins flying steed to tho top of a runaway stage coach to rescue a tearful but pretty heroine from foul play at of a villain. A western star who is on the crest of tho wave' of popularity is Buck Jones. His latest film is “Men Without Law,” a Columbia picturo now at the Kosy Theatre for three days. Buck is probably the most expert rider, before 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.