PALMERSTON PICTURE PROGRAMMES

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6834, 15 April 1932, Page 10

PALMERSTON PICTURE PROGRAMMES

AT THE REGENT SIDNEY FOX RETURNS IN "NICE AYOAIEN” The picture concluding at the Regent to-night it "Nice Women,’’ Universal’s drama of a tangled love affair, with Sidney Fox in the featured role and a cast that includes Frances Dee, Alan Mowbray, Russell Gleason, Carmel Alyers and Lucille AVebster Gleason. "Nice Women’’ presents the demure Aliss Fox as a “younger sister” who poses as an expert in affairs of the heart, only to confess later that her apparent sophistication is only' a pretence. And then, bringing the picture to a surprising finish, she embarks as a real sircu who knows all the arts of love and gets what her heart desires. Frances Dee is seen as Sidney’s older sister and Alan Alowbray as a philandering bachelor who finds himself entangled with three girls at once, not to mention the outraged sweetheart of one of them. “Nice AA’omcn” was directed by Edwin K. Knoopf from the Broadway play of the same name by AVilliam A. Grew. Matinee for Stirring Drama, "My Sin” "My Sin,” commencing at the Regent matinee to-morrow, is not a story of a single sin, as most people -would imagine from the title; it brings to the screen the talc of two derelicts, a man and a woman, who meet in a low-class cabaret in tropical Panama. How they lift themselves, through each other’s efforts, from the very depths, the picture purposes to tell. Tallulah Bankhead, idol of the English stage, lias tho lending role. “Aly Sin” is not a comedy; it is a sincere portrayal of a very serious theme —regeneration through mutual love and understanding. It is in dramatic force that “Aly Sin” appeals most strongly. Frederic Alarch takes the principal male lead. He, too, is first seen as a pitiable outcast of society', and in a wonderful characterisation, played with force and conviction, once again finds his place iu tho world. Each lives his and her part, and with the picture the audicnco also lives. After all that is true entertainment.

PALACE THEATRE “SPIRIT OF NOTRE DAAIE” OPENS FOOTBALL SEASON “The Spirit of Notre Dame,” Universal’s rapid-fire football picture, which presents Lewis Ay r rcs in tho starring role, is regarded as the screen’s most timely and genuinely interesting story of the field. It is booked to play at the Palace theatre, starling to-morrow, it takes advantage of the seasonable football fever. Ayres, as half back of tho Notro Dame team, is seen in tho most active role of his screen career, and one which is in decided contrast to his characterisation of tho “white trash” boy in “Heaven on Earth,” tho Alississippi river drama. The picturo w'as directed by Russell Alack, who also was in charge of the filming of “Heaven on Earth,” and the east, in addition to the football stars, includes AVilliam Bakewell, J. Farrell AlacDonald, Sally Bane, Andy Devine, Harry Barris and Florence Lake.

KOSY THEATRE BEBE DANIELS RETURNS TO TYPE OF ROLE THAT BROUGHT FA AIL Be be Daniels returns to tho type of role that first won fame for her in “The Honour of the Family,” the First National production screening finally today at the Kosy', in which she is featured with AVarren AVilliam and Alan Alowbray. The picture, a sprightly modernisation of Balzac’s famous play, is an action-filled comedy of tlio fastest type, filled with adventure and romance. Llovd Bacon, director of tho production, predicts that’ “The Honour of the Family” will open a vast new field of screen material, so far untouched, wherein Hollywood film makers will find in the classics of literature plot situations ideal for development into modern story material. Baxter and Lowe Learn Desert Horsemanship

AVhiie AVarncr Baxter and Edmund Lowe arc rated among tho realty good horsemen of the screen colony, both learned some new tricks in riding during the filming of O. Henry’s “The Cisco Kid,” the Fox feature attraction coming to the. Kosy theatre to-morrow. Aluch of the picture was filmed in the Santa Cruz desert in Arizona, and contrary to tho general impression there arc deserts and deserts. This one happened to be thickly covered with cacti, ranging from the huge saguaros to the small but formidable bisnaga, with spiny palo verde trees, buckthorns and various other plants that arc best left severely alone, either walking or riding. The job of piloting a horse at full speed through obstacles of this sort requires horsemanship of a high degree to avoid painful injury or worse, and the script called for many such scenes of Sergeant Dunn (Edmund I,owe) in hot pursuit of his old enemy, the Cisco Kid (AVarncr Baxter).