ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, 26 June 1928, Page 10

ENTERTAINMENTS

EVERYBODY’S. REGINALD DENNY'S LATEST. If you want to know where there is a good picture, the answer will be found at Everybody’s Theatre, where Reginald Denny’s newest screen success, “On Your Toes,” opened last night for a three-night season. Denny enacts the role of a prize fighter. Not since his first famed screen efforts in “The Leather Pushers” has he been seen in the character of a boxer. His success in this type of part is greater than in any other he has so far assumed. An excellent supporting cast aids in making the picture highly amusing. Barbara Worth, the leading lady, appears for the second time opposite Denny. She is a capable actress and her charm and beauty are most pleasing. Frank Hagney, as Mello, the heavyweight champion, also gives a fine performance. Mary Carr plays another of her famous roles, except that this time she is a grandmother instead of a mother. Hayden Stevenson, Gertrude Howard and George West do excellent work. Fred Newmeyer, the director, is apparently able to bring out the moist amusing'angles of the story, and he does not lose sight of the fact that good- acting is a necessary part of a good picture. Other attractions on the bill include the -ixth of “The Collegians,” a two-reel comedy, a British and International news reels. A bright musical programme is provided by the orchestra. This excellent programme shows again to-night and to-morrow night. THE PEOPLE’S. “THE EXQUISITE SINNER.” “The Exquisite Sinner” is a screen version of the popular novel, “Escape,” and will be shown at the People’s Theatre to-night and again to-morrow night. With a brilliant cast headed by Conrad Nagel, Renee Adoree, and George K. Arthur, it is a delightfully humorous romance of a temperamental Frenchman, who craved freedom and happiness, and went wandering through his native France with a Gypsy girl. At once convincingly human and intensely comical, Conrad Nagel finds his greatest role as the temperamental artist in “The Exquisite Sinner." As the picturesque gypsy maid who brings happiness to the wandering artist, Renee Adoree is bewitching and adorable. She acts with true French fire and abandon, and one readily sympathises with Nagel, as the young Frenchman, in his infatuation. It is her most pleasing role, and her French birth enables her to give the characterisation a remarkable authenticity. Geo. K. Arthur, as the colonel’s orderly, is given ample scope for his humorous gifts, and another entertaining portrayal is the result. Roars of laughter greet his every appearance, and his reputation as a comedian will materially benefit by this picture. The supporting programme includes a comedy, New Zealand scenic, and Pathe News reels.