DE LUXE THEATRE

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12211, 8 August 1925, Page 2

DE LUXE THEATRE

Hawaiian MUSlC—and movies. In its comparatively short term of existence, the Theatre de Luxe has established a remarkably high standard of efficiency as a house of movie entertainment, the management believing that after quality cornea variety as a palatable morsel for public taste. Efficiency was assured from the opening night—variety has been provided ever since. An added attraction is featured on the bill for the season which commenced last evening, and in addition to a remarkably fine film, “I’ll Show You the Town,” the usual entr’acte by the orchestra de Luxe, is replaced by a musical diversion in Bishaw’s Hawaiian Trio, which features among a host of selections, “Au Revoir Honolulu.” Hawaiian music will ever charm, and this splendid trio, playing softly in' an atmosphere of diffused Tight—worked as only de Luxe standard demands—create an entirely new. diversion from .the usual musical selections. The orchestra 4® Luxe, under Mr L. D. Austin, play “Raymond,” as an overture, and incidental music to the maddest: wildest screen comedy that\ ever found its.way to the screen. 1 This! picture is one of -the greatest laughing -successes of the year, showing Reginald Denny in the role of a woman-hating college professor of thirty, who tries to get an endowment tor the impoverished college from a wealthy widow. In attempting to win her favour, he wins her "heart, and complications begin to set in with the" girl he expects to many and two others whom he has promised: to “show the town.” - Entertaining three women at once in the same cafe, each woman" being unaware of the. others’ existence, is a problem which he answers by the expedient of having himselfpaged every five minutes. It results in many screamingly funny situations, -iireut stq m etur). joj pessard gaieg sided courtship, he manages to "show one woman the town in a very few minutes by means of an airplane. In one of the scenes, laid in a .fashionable beauty parlour, ivbere the homely widow is seen to 'go through all the processes of being jnade beautiful, there is a beauty parade of the latent Paris creations, _ adding charm to a. picture packed with thrills ana laughs. Dennv is supported by a notable cast', including Marian Nixon, Edward Nitnhall, Lilyan Tashman, Hayden Stevenson, Cissy Fitzgerald, Margaret Living-, ston, Neely, Edwards, .William A. Carroll, Martha Mattox,' Helen Greene and Lionel' Braham. Harry A. Pollard directed the production.. The picture and musical diversion comprise one _of the best entertainments billed by tho do Luxe. , ■