PALMERSTON PICTURE PROGRAMMES

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6763, 22 January 1932, Page 10

PALMERSTON PICTURE PROGRAMMES

~ PALACE THEATRE. 0 “PERFECT ALIBI.” HONOURS FO j] SUSPENSE. A. A. *Milne's successful mystet play, “The Perfect Alibi,” wliic achieved a two-year Broadway staj engagement at the Charles ilopkii Theatre, lias been made into a talkie b “ Radio l’icturcs. It comes to tho Pa ace Theatre, starting to-morrow at 111 a inec 2 p.m. Tlie Milne play, the kin * of plot which exposes tlie murderer In fore the audience but not to the part cipants, scored a tremendous success i its stage performance, becoming ovc: night the outstanding mystery hit c the Broadway stage several season ago. The him version made in Englan near the scene of its London stage tr , umph is said to be even more eil'ectiv l than tho stage version. Basil Dear . noted British stage and screen dircc , tor, produced “The Perfect Alibi,” fo Associated Radio Pictures with a eas including such brilliant performers a Warwick Ward, star with Emil Jann I ings of “Variety,” Robert Loraine, C . Aubrey Smith, who scored with Mario: [ Davies in “The Bachelor Father,” am . others. “Tho Perfect Alibi” will b at the Palace Theatre. From all ad . vnneo reports this mystery success i considerably more effective on tin . screen than on the si age. This sound as though local audiences are in fo some genuine thrills. KOSY THEATRE. “CHECK AND DOUBLE CHECK.-' FINAL SCREENINGS:’. There will be continuous pictures to day at tho Ivosy, and the feature at traction, “Check and Double Cheek,’ will have its final screenings. Juvenile Actors Have Lead Roles In Stellar Cast. Of twenty speaking parts in the Paramount picture, “Huckleberry Finn,” which shows at the Ivosy Theatre to-morrow, four arc carried by well-known juvenilo players, Jackie Coogan, Mitzi Green, Junior Durkin and Jackie Bead, all of them continuing the roles m which they won favour in “Tom Sawyer.” Several adult players seen in “Torn Sawyer” again play tho samo charaetors in “Huckleberry Finn,” the second of the Mark Twain classics to come to the screen. Clara Blandick will again hold sway over the Sawyer boys, as Aunt Polly. Jane Darwell continues as the efficient Widow Douglas, Huck Finn’s guardian angel. Two veteran actresses, Cecil Weston and Lillian liarmcr were signed for the roles of Mrs. Thatcher, and a companion of Widow Douglas. Miss Weston brings an experience of thirty years ou tho stage and screen to her difficult character role. Miss liarmcr was a prominent stage figure for seventeen years before she entered pictures. Eugene Pailette, Oscar ApfeJ, Warner Richmond, Guy Oliver, Frank MeGlynn, Ailecn Manning and Clarence Muse have important parts. “Huckleberry Finn” was'directed by Norman TaurCg, maker of the recent youngster hit, “Skippy,” and of “Forbidden Adventure.” The picture was filmed at the Paramount studio in Hollywood and on location. An entiro country town, of the ISSO vintage, was recreated near Hollywood as a setting for the story. Nearly two hundred children, of assorted ages, have parts in the picture. Tho juvenile cast of “Huckleberry Finn” is much larger than that of either ‘ ‘ Tom Sawyer ’ ’ or, ‘ ‘ Skippy. ’ ’

i AT THE REGENT. • MATINEE THIS AFTERNOON FOR “FIFTY MILLION FRENCHMEN.” i Olsen and Johnson, the comedy team ' known as the nuttiest nuts of nutland i —famous on musical comedy and vaudevilo stage, in their original farce, “Monkey .Business” and on the screen in Warner Bros. “Oh, Sailor Behave,” are the stars of “Fifty Million Frenchmen,” now at tlie Regent (matinee today at 2 p.m.). They arc supported by a cast including William Gaxton, John Halliday, Charles Judds, Lester Crawford, and others completing the list, of players adapted from the Broadway stage hit. The supporting programme consists of several splendid featurettes and news reels. It. is a brilliant screen version of the play which captured Broadway last season. Many of the same people that appeared on the stage arc seen in its cast. Lloyd dacon, responsible for so many Warner Bros. successes, directed this hurricane of entertainment which hasn’t a slow moment from beginning to end. The scenes in Paris arc panoramic—whether it is the famous Kitz bar —the boulevards —the races—the streets with skidding taxis and imperilled pedestrians — all is gay and breathtaking in action. It is tho sort of picture which delights young and old. It is a duty you owe yourself and your friends to see it dur-l ing tho local engagement. Matinee on Saturday for New Comedy Film. Commencing at a matinee at the Regent to-morrow will be “The New Adventures of Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford.” Based on the later Wallingford stories, written by George Randolph Chester, it features the effervescent William Haines in the role ot the redoubtable “J. Rufus,” while elongated Ernest Torrence and Jimmy Durante appear as his genial conipan- ' ions. The part of sucli a cheerful scoundrel as Wallingford comes natur- - ally to William Haines, while his two pals in crime and sentimental reforma- ]

tion are also responsible for the success of the comedy. The trio are seen as a bunch of conlidcncc tricksters who, after plying their trade rather too effectively, but amusingly, on a liner and in New York, make for the small towns. Here they get on to real estate and tloat a bogus company on local capital. But Wallingford falls in love with the president’s daughter (Leila Hyams) and has an attack of honesty, to the dismay of his pals. After absconding with the money they return, however, to stand by him when lie is in danger of losing a game of bluff with indignant, shareholders.