STRAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 748, 22 August 1929, Page 17

STRAND

“SPEAKEASY” TOMORROW “Show Boat,” the spectacular and colourful romance of the Mississippi River, with full singing and talking sequences, will be screened at the Strand Theatre for the last time this evening. Laura La Plante and Joseph Schildkraut are the stars. Those who never have had the thrill gained from sitting in New York’s world-famous Aladison Square Garden during the progress of a big boxing match, need not journey to that celebrated metropolis to get it. In the Fox Movietone production, “Speakeasy,” at the Strand Theatre tomorrow', authentic pictures taken in the sport arena are shown. Through the willing co-operation of the late George L. “Tex’’ Rickard, Fox Movietone was privileged to make pictures during a boxing match which was so great an attraction that every one of the 20,000 seats was filled. In this sequence one is able to see and hear the frenzied response of tw'enty thousand enthusiastic boxing fans to the various onslaughts and retreats of the favourite “biffer” the raucous cry of the soft drink vendor; the croaking ringside know-it-all who gives advice free to the boxers; the thundering boom of the huge gong and all of the excited oratory winch breaks out at gatherings of this kind. Lola Lutne and Paul Page, leading players in the production, appear in the scenes taken in Gotham. In the cast are many stage / a Y° u J’ ite ®» eluding Henry B. At althall, Sharon Lynn. Helen Ware. Warren Hymer, Stuart Erwin, Helen Lynch, Liville Alderson. Marjorie Beebe, Ivan Linow and James Guilfoyle. . . Benjamin Stoloff. Fox Movietone director. journeyed to New Yoik City with his company to 111 m exterior scenes for "Speakeasy.” The great metropolis is the oacK ground of the story and much of the dramatic action of the narrative takes place in one of its numerous mysteri ous speakesies. It was to this far-famed institution to the screen m all of its glamorous reality which nrompted Fox executives to film the scenes actually in New The supporting programme will include a number of short all-talkie features by world-famous artists also an address by the Bight Hon. Ramsay MacDonald. ~ other attractions will be an all . eomedy. entitled "Sound your A .» introducing Neavs. erme? cnUtleS "Early Mourning.”

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