SUBURBAN THEATRES

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 640, 17 April 1929, Page 15

SUBURBAN THEATRES

At the Capitol Theatre. Dominion ! Road, the pictures are "Beau Sabreur" (Gary Cooper and a large cast). ’ and "Skirts" (Betty Balfour and Svd ! Chaplin). The Empire Theatre. Dominion Road. • will screen "Two Red Roses" (Liane j Haid), also "Hoofbeats of Vengeance’" j (Hoot Gibson). The Edendale Theatre is to present “Skirts" (Betty Balfour and Syd Chaplin), also "Odds On" (an all-Aus-tralian cast with Phyllis Gibbs). The Prince Edward will screen "Take Me Home" (Bebe Daniels) and "Sunrise" (Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell). At the Parish Hall. Devonport. the following pictures will be shown this | evening. "The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Lslands,” and "Prep and Pep" (David Rollins). The CSrey Lynn Cinema will show "The Plunder City” (Ken Maynard) and "Tall Timbers” (Billie Sim).

BIG PICTURES AT BRITANNIA

"The Farmer’s Daughter,” now at the Britannia Theatre, is an ideal story for Marjorie Beebe, as it tells of a little bucolic village to which comes a city "slicker" prepared to do the villagers and do them thoroughly. He gets along fairly well until he matches wits with a farmer’s daughter, who reverses his theory that a sucker should never be given an even break. That is the mere thread of the story, but it is embellished with many highlights, including a real county fair with real villagers gathered from the highways and byways, a bathing beauty contest, and many novelties. "Someone to Love,” which is also being shown, is a delightful romantic story starring Charles Rogers.

DRAMATIC ART

CHARACTERS BY JANNINGS In his latest picture for Paramount. "Betrayal,” Emil Jannings, the great character actor, portrays the Mayor ot a village in the Swiss Alps. That characterisation is another addition to an already large list of remarkable performances. Jannings in his first Paramount picture, "The Way of All Flesh, appeared as a German-American bank clerk. In "The Last Command” he became the generalissimo of_ a Russian army. “The Street of Sin” was a story written with the background of the London slums, and Jannings shone again as the bully of Limehouse. In "Sins of the Fathers, which has yet to be released by Paramount, he has a new type of part as a bootlegger, while in "The Patriot he was a Czar of Russia.

LON CHANEY AGAIN

As "Dead Legs Flint” Lon Chaney first appears in the new thriller "West of Zanzibar,” soon to be shown here, as a stage magician performing theatre illusions, and then, paralysed in a fight with an enemy, is next seen in the African jungles ruling a tribe of savages by his strange "magic" as a "white voodoo” priest. All the time he trails the man who injured him, and formulates a terrible plot of revenge. Among the sensational high-lights are the replicas of weird voodoo rites and the ceremonies of devil worshippers in the Congo jungles, with hundreds of people taking part in these unique rites. Lionel Barrymore, Mary Nolan, Warner Baxter and others appear in the splendid cast. Mary Astor stars in the Fox production, "New Year’s Eve," and is supported by Arthur Stone and Marjorie Beebe, who have appeared together in Fox comedies. "New Year’s Five” was directed by Henry. Lehrnun.