“THE SHOW BOAT”
At the Palace on Saturday
The greatest romance ever written by Edna Berber. The greatest musical comedy ever staged. The greatest romance ever filmed by a motion picture company. That’s “Show Boat,” tiniversal's million-dollar super talking picture combined with Ziegfeld’s famous stage production, which will be the next attractibn at the Palace theatre starting Saturday. It was produced for the screen with a cast of talented celebrities headed by Laura La Plante, Joseph Schildkraut and Otis Harlan. Harry Pollard, the director of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” held the megaphone and has produced the finest photoplay of all time. Helen Morgan, Jules Bledsoe, Aunt Jemima and other Ziegfeld stars, contribute songs and choruses. ,The story concerns Magnolia Hawks, loved by Capt’n Apdy, her father, and
Parthy, her mother, joint owners of a Show Boa,t. Her mother tries to protect her from the worldly influences of the Show Boat troupe but when Magnolia grows to womanhood she becomes the star of the floating theatre and falls in love with the new leading man, Gaylord Eavenal, a Mississippi river gambler. She marries him and flees from the Show Boat to Chicago where Eavenai plunges into the tinselled life of the gambling dens. Life becomes uncertain, hectic, yet their great love dominates everything. But always there is the Show Boat, the river lapping at its sides, beckoning Magnolia to return. The rest of the story you should see on the screen.
The cast includes such famous players as Alma Bubens, Emily Fitzroy, Elsie Bartlett, Neely Edwards, Jane La "Verne, Blanche Craig, Theodore Lorch and many others. This picture carries our strongest endorsement —perfect entertainmentpopular stars —a beautiful story, music, songs, dramatic dialogue—the fascinating of the Show Boat and
Chicago at its wickedest —'and a superlative directorial treatment.
And don’t forget the wonderful tuneful', popular Jerome Kerns music that helped to make the Ziegfeld “Show Boat” famous.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7018, 18 September 1929, Page 9
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