PRINCESS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 166, 4 October 1927, Page 14

PRINCESS

“CASEY AT THE BAT” “Casey at the Bat,” featuring Wallace Beery, will be . shown for two more days at the Princess Theatre. Beery, perhaps the actor to have made the most progress during the past 12 months, due to inimitable performances in “Behind the Front,” "We're in the Navy Now” and “Qld Ironsides,” enacts the small town junk man who suddenly finds himself catapulted to fame and fortune when a big league baseball scout signs him to a giant contract. Imagine if you will (it isn’t difficult) Beery as the hero of America, the Babe Ruth of 1890. Picture the laughs as Wallace hits a home run with one hand while holding a pot of beer in the other. Think of the roars that’ll be forthcoming as he climbs on the stage of the old Casino Theatre and makes a personal appearance. Then comes a trip to Coney Island and you’ll wonder what the wild waves are saying. A morning in bed, duped into believing he’s very ill and finally—the big game! Ford Sterling enacts Beery’s Columbus by “discovering” him. Zasu Pitts is the Centerville belle and Sterling Holloway, Beery’s villainous manager. Monte Brice directed this Hector Turnbull production.

Bebe Daniels, soon to be seen on the screen in “Senorita,’ her latest starring Paramount picture, made her first public appearance when she was ten weeks old. As a mere babe she was carried in her father’s arms in the role of an infant in the stage comedy, “Jane.”