De Luxe Talkies, Dannevirke

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7168, 15 March 1930, Page 2

De Luxe Talkies, Dannevirke

Both now and old faces are soon .in “Big Time,” the excellent Fox Movietone all talking comedy-drama of .backstage and behind movie set®, which opens an engagement at the do Luxe Theatre to-morrow with two presentations. Lee Tracy, Mao Clarke and Josophipe Bunn, who enact the leading roles, make their first screen appearance in, this picture. They are supported by Daphne Pollard, Stepin Fetchit, and a numlbor of others. Tracy, who was the stage star of “Broadway,” for nearly three seasons, and who played the lead in “The Front Page,” portrays the role of a small time and conceited hoofer, while Miss Clarke appears as his wife. They both repeat their stage successes in the picture. Tracy gives a most satisfactory interpretation of a difficult role. Putting spirit and feeding in the character, Miss Pollard and the inimitable Fetchit furnish tho comedy. They keep the audience in a roar of laughter. Miss Dunn portrays the role of “the other woman,” Gloria, who leads the lioofer a merry chase, away from his wife, then drops him when luck turns. The cast is. good and tho story appealing. The climax arrives in a Hollywood motion picture studio, and the setting for this sequence is little short of marvellous in its gorgeous and stupendous beauty. The list of talkie “shorts” are headed by Fox Movietone News, an all-talkie comedy, and a novel musical number entitled “In a Music Shoppe. ’ ’ Plans are now on view at tho Gramophone and Radio Co., opposite Andrews’ hotel.