What Should be seen in 1929

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 538, 15 December 1928, Page 1 (Supplement)

What Should be seen in 1929

A Review of Outstanding Amusement Features for the Com ing Year

di.il BOOM YEAR in entertainment in New Zealand is about to be ushered in. Outstanding pictures are on the way. Their great merit is partly due to the competition between film producers to maintain individual reputations, and partly to international rivalry. Other nations are attempting to wrest from the United States her 'supremacy in the cinematographic field. Further, the movie theatre audience is becoming more exacting, and exhibitors whose business it is to cater for them are persistently demanding the highest quality of film. Mainly for these reasons, the screenings in 1929 will reveal a substantial advance in cinematography. The world’s best pictures will be seen in Auckland, where the facilities for exhibiting them are second to none. On the legitimate stage in England and America, new stars have risen. Some of them, and many old favourites, are booked for New Zealand tours in the coming year. Musical celebrities of world-wide fame have also been engaged, and although the present year was notable for concerts and operatic performances, next year will be even better. In vaudeville, the world has been combed by entrepreneurs for novelties, and the public will reap the benefit of their enterprise in securing many new artists in the front rank of the profession. Thus the claim that there will be much “THAT SHOULD BE SEEN IN 1929” will be fully substantiated. THE SUN is glad to be associated with many important announcements of entertainment enterprise in this special edition—the most ambitious of its kind ever published in the Dominion.