PALMERSTON PICTURE PROGRAMMES

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7168, 15 March 1930, Page 8

PALMERSTON PICTURE PROGRAMMES

1 “ AT THE PALACE. DICK BARTHELMESS’ FIRST TALKIE, “WEARY RIVER” Another. Barthelmcss triumph is the way “Weary River” is being hailed by motion picture patrons who attend tho First National staf’s newest effort at, the Palace Theatre to-day. “Weary River” is the thirty-second feature in which this popular star has appeared in his brilliant career which began upon his termination of his sophomore year at Trinity College, Hartford, U.S.A., twelve years ago. Barthclmess was born, in New York City and is best remembered for his classic, interpretations in “Broken Blossoms,” -“Tol-able David,” “Way Down-East,” and many others. His most -Tecent successes have been “The One Woman,” “The Noose,” “Wheel of Chance.” Ho was recently seen in a story of tho high seas entitled “Scarlet Seas.”

“Weary River” gives Barthclmess a great chance to show his ability. The story is one especially suited to his dramatic talents and is teeming with action and heart interest. Frank Lloyd directed it with a superlative cast headed by Betty Compson and including ’William Holden, Raymond Turner, .-George Stone,Louis Natbeaux, De Sacia Mooers, Robert O’Connor, Gladdens James. Plans are already rapidly filling. THEATRE DE LUXE. . WELL ROGERS IN TALKIE DEBUT WITH PERFECTLY FITTING .ROLE. Will Rogers’ first all talking picture, the Fox Movietone comedy drama ‘They,Had to See Paris,’ opens an engagement' of three nights - and one matineo at tho Theatre Do Luxe at 2 p.m. to-day. It is adapted from Homer Croy’s widely rend novel, with the dialogue by Owen Davis, Sr., dean of American playwrights. i The story deals with the experience in Paris of the Peters family of Oklahoma after it has become suddenly rich.

from an oil gusher. Mrs Peters is ambitious to consort with nobility and, after renting an expensive chateau, stages a reception to which many titled people are invited, but who demand payment in advance for appearing at the function. Among them is a grand duke, who asks tho top price of 1000 dollars.

Meanwhile, Peters becomes more or less intrigued by Claudine, a cafe entertainer, and Ross Peters, the son, becomes enmeshed in. a romance with a cocotte known as Flcurie. In due course, the marquis proposes to the daughter, Opal, but demands a settlement of half a million dollars which Peters refuses to pay. Finally, Opal comes to her senses, realising that tho marquis wants her money rather than herself, and he is effectively dismissed. Peters, during the interim, discovers the relations of Ross and Fleurie and takes drastic means to break them up. He puts on a love scene with Claudine and takes pains that Ross shall see it. The boy is thoroughly' shocked. He hurries to tho chateau to accuse his mother of having driven his father to tho act and mother, son and daughter rush to-Claudine’s apartment to investigate. This is only a brief sketch of the rich plot, which has an unusual climax.

The admirable supporting programme includes an all-talking act, entitled, “Treasurer’s Report”; a sound cartoon, “Old Tunes for New,” and the latest Fox Movietone News. KOSY THEATRE. Corinne Griffith makes her United Artists debut in “The Garden of Eden,” a ' comedy romance film based on the stage play of the same name, her picture now showing at the Kosy Theatre. Louiso Dresser, Lowell Sherman and Charles Ray head a distinguished supporting cast. Lewis Milestone, who made “Two Arabian Knights,” directed “The Garden of Eden.”

Apples, serpents, fig leaves and Paradise are only symbolically present in this “Garden of Eden,” —for it is a modern clothes version of the oldest story in the world. It is at the Hotel Eden, outside Monte Carlo, that many humorous and romantic adventures befall Toni Leßrun, French shopgirl off on a lark with her friend, the Bar.Oflgss Sosa do .Garcer. .. The start-

ling climax to those adventures is a wedding which ends in a riot. Loved by Two Men in Underworld Story.

Tliey both loved her, but one was a murderer! Such is tho position in which Phyllis Haver finds herself in “Tenth Avenue,” a dramatic Do Mille Studio production. Compelled to discover which of her two, sweethearts is the killer, Miss Haver resorts to startlingly unusual taetics, in this cokAirful, story of New York’s Hell’s Kitchen. Victor Varconi and Joseph Schildkraut portray the other principal characterisations in “Tenth Avenue,” as written for the screen by Douglas Doty from the stage play of the same name. Robert Edeson, Louis Natheaux, Ernie S. Adams, Casson Ferguson and Ethel Wales are in tho supporting cast.