ENTERTAINMENTS

Southland Times, Issue 20671, 18 December 1928, Page 9

ENTERTAINMENTS

MAJESTIC—TO-NIGHT. . LAST NIGHT OF GEORGE OHARA IN “IS THIS NICE?” ALSO RIN TIN TIN IN “A RACE FOR LIFE,” COMEDY AND GAZETTE. Motion pictures of the newspaper game I have been legion —but a new treatment of , the “fourth estate’” is brought out in FBO’s new George O’Hara film, “Is That Nice?” which finishes to-night at the Majestic Theatre A clever and uproarious burlesque on newspapers and politics is the underlying theme of the picture, in which O’Hara i as the ambitious cub reporter manages to keep in continuous hot water from beginning to end—and incidentally gives a delightful and screamingly funny interpretation of the role. Rinty has taken to the race tracks and is now the big attraction at. the Majestic Theatre where he will be seen for the last time to-night in Warner Master Pictures’ “A Race for Life.” Rin-Tin-Tin is first seen making his way south by box car with his pal Danny O’Shea, who, after many difficulties, gets a job as jockey. Rival horse owners try to cripple Danny’s horse. Rinty attacks and is blinded. The boy hides him and is himself kidnapped. Rinty escapes from his shack and frees the lad in time for the big races! But here comes the most exciting of all the exciting sequences of the piece. MAJESTIC—TO-MORROW. ALICE TERRY AND IVAN PETROVITCH IN "THE GARDEN OF ALLAH,” ALSO MARIE PREVOST IN “THE NIGHT BRIDE.” There are at least two very good reasons why picturegoers should see “The Garden of Allah,” which will open at the Majestic Theatre to-morrow. One is the awe-in-spiring and breath-taking scenes of the desert and heart of Algiers, and the other is that it is a faithful and intensely dramatic version of Robert Richens’ famous novel made by that screen genius, Rex Ingram. Marie Prevost, whose first stellar vehicle was “Up in Mabel’s Room,” wherein a silken chemise played an important role, and who later starred in “Getting Gertie’s Garter,” wherein a jewelled garter was the featured “props,” again finds herself involved with what some folks term “intimate” apparel. Harrison Ford appears opposite the star in this production, which also opens at thie theatre to-morrow. E Mason Hooper directed from a scenario by Zeid a Sears and Fred Stanley. CIVIC PICTURES. LAST NIGHT OF GLENN TRYON IN “HOT HEELS,” WILLIAM RUSSELL AND VIRGINIA VALLI IN ‘THE ESCAPE.” The greatest farceur of them all, Glenn Tryon, has used the tried theme of the horse race as the butt of many clever, original situations in “Hot Heels,” which is to be shown in the Municipal Theatre for the last time to-night. Tryon has a knack of taking simple stories, changing them about deftly, and producing absolute topnotch farce comedies. In his preceding pictures he poked the gentle shaft of fun at an automobile inventor, at long-distance flight record and at the mythical kingdom tradition. His newest picture surpasses even the sparkling comedy of ite precedessors. Besides the riotous comedy the picture has more than its quota of real thrills. The story starts off with a country boy spending his last penny to buy a bankrupt road show putting on a race track melodrama. He takes the troupe to Havana only to discover that he has been the victim of a confidence game. He suspects the leading woman, with whom he has fallen in love, with being a party to the plot. But there is a “prop” horse used in their show which its owner declares can really race so they enter him in the Havana Steeplechase. •Thrills and comedy are cleverly interspersed with the result that “Hot Heels” is considered the best of the Tryon’s and certainly one of the most amusing pictures ever shown here. Patsy Ruth Miller is the leading woman. The Fox picture “The Escape” is a compelling and gripping melodrama with Virginia Valli and William Russell in the principal roles. Centering about the life of a girl who is determined to escape the sordid surroundings of ‘The Kettle” and New York night-club life, the screen version is packed with human interest from the opening shot, in Gotham’s tenements to the dazzling gliter of the Blue Moon Night Club, where world denizens hold undisputed sway. It is one of the most graphic photoplays seen here in many months.