AMUSEMENTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16865, 31 January 1929, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

THE i’ALAL'E There are, two comedians who can always be relied on to turn out. a picture'that is likely to contain every essential for a first-rate comedy wh.ich will appeal to everyone. They are Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton, whose latest offering, ‘•Partners in Grime/’ opened at the Palace Theatre last night'. “Partners in Crime” lias a plot, its thrilling as it as amusing, while the supporting cast includes such well-known names as Alary Brian, who plays the heroine, William Powell, the suave villian, and Jack Luc!en, who is cast in- the role of the hero. Raymond Hatton plays a dual part, and is seen as “Scoop” McGee, a newspaper reporter, and. us “Knife’ - Reagan, the terror of the, underworld. The picture tells the story of Richard Deeming, assistant district attorney, .McGee. and Alike Doolan. a detective. (Wallace Beery), who all love Marie Burke. Owing to his rash suggestions concerning the cleaning up of the underworld, Deeming loses his jot), and later, when he surprises Smith, a- gangster, at his work, lie is captured. After much fun and thrills alt ends happily, Marie being claimed by her lover, and the two comedians feeling very pleased at- escaping in safety. The comedy element is/ strong throughout. Beery’s inanp expression would make the most glum person laugh, while Hatton’s facial expressions are almost beyond description. Marv Brian and Jack L-nden are all that •mo "could wish for in their respective roles. “Partners in Crime” is a Paramount production. Thu supporting programme is good, ; 11 1 <I includes a gazette, i cartoon, a Bobby Vernon comedy, and •i, most interesting him depicting the habits of. ants. The orchestra will vender special selections. MAJESTICI THEATRE

Acclaimed by the London and Parisian press as “one- of the most fascinating screen entertainments of the season,’ ‘Life’s Circus” will lie presented at the Majestic. Theatre for a season of two ■lights and a special matinee to-morrow it 2 o’clock. Most of the scenes are laid actually within.the precincts of the famous “Li; Cirque* Modem” of Paris. The acts shown in the picture tire not the usual everyday acts of the circus ■mg. but some of the most sensational' mats of agility and daring by Gbntiumtal artists are photographed at close quarters. Etor instance, the two brothers if the story ore cast as the Flamingo Brothers, tight and slack wire walkers tnd tumblers.. In the picture the full ict is shown, Oner turns a hack somersault from feet to feet on the tight wire, the other, as a drunken man, performs mme marvellous rents on a, slack wire while it is being, lowered by his brother. As one watches this act the atmosphere -)f the theatre is forgotten and one almost imagines himself among the audience of the circus, gasping at the daring if the artists. Then, as a-fitting climax, one sees the “Glide of- Death. This is m act that holds one spellbound at the audacity, the complete disregard for the 'atvs of gravity. A girl strapped in a- ; ig|it motor ear is released from the top tf the auditorium to slide down with 'iglitning spend down a steep slipway. U the bottom is a curve upward and lie car i? hurtled through the air, turntig over twice in its flight and landing ■jght side up on a staging in the centre Tf the ring. It is this act round: which ’.he graphic story of “Life’s. Circus ’ is ,voven.