ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, 3 October 1929, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS

EVERYBODY’S, “THE GHOST TALKS.” “The Ghost Talks,” now showing at [ Everybody’s, New Plymouth, has not aserious moment to offer,* The witty, . sparkling dialogue mouthed by dumb 1 , detectives, blustering hotel-keepers and suave highbinders, together with the unhappy. whines and blue songs of a pair of negro honeymooners, who are no less witty, evokes a response unmistakably uproarious. There’s production skill evidenced in this picture, too. The weird, blustery exteriors of the haunted house’ for instance, are masterpieces of their kind. The members of the unusually large cast were selected for their vocal abilities as well as their stage presence. Charles Eaton and Helen Twelvetrees (with the delightful lisp) head the cast. They were induced to desert the New York stage for this special assignment. Others include Earle Foxe, Carmel Myers, Joe Brown, Henry Sedley, Clifford Dempsey, Stepin Fetchit (negro), Baby Mack (negro), Arnold Lucy, Bess Flowers, Dorothy McGowan, and* Mickey Bennett. Lew Seiler, veteran Fox Films director, with scores of hilarious comedies to his. credit, was entrusted with the filming of this first Fox Movietone feature length farce comedy. The supporting Movietone featurettes include Fox Movietone News,. Ben Bernie’s Band, “Furnace Trouble” (an all-talking comedy), and Beatrice Lillie (English vaudeville artiste). There will be a matinee to-morrow at 2 p.m. OPERA HOUSE. COMMENCING TO-MORROW. “Children of the Ritz,” a First National attraction starring Dorothy Mackaill and Jack Mulhall; and “The Gar-, den of Allah,” a Metro-Goldwyn special attraction will screen at the New Plymouth Opera House to-morrow (Friday) and Saturday. “Children of the Ritz” concerns a rich girl who marries her father’s chauffeur when he is ruined.. The cheauffeur inherits a modest fortune and together with his wife they move to the Ritz and the fortune starts to melt away. How fast it melts and what re-! . suits is the picture —a picture you must see to know the story. With the filming of “The Garden of Allah,” Rex Ingram contributes yet another picture to the screen leaving the author.’s original title and ending unchanged. “The Foiir Horsemen of the Apocalypse,” 1 “The Prisoner of Zenda,” “Scaramouche,” “Where the Pavement Ends,” and “Mare Nostrum,” are all Ingram pictures. “The Garden of Allah” adds another to the list. Alice Terry and Ivan Petrovich play the leading roles in this screen version of Robert Hichens’ famous romance, of love in the desert, while thousands of Arab tribesmen, blinding sandstorms and intimate glimpses of native life are among the interesting highlights of “The Garden of Allah.” The Opera House orchestra will be in attendance, THE PEOPLE’S. “MADEMOISELLE PARLEY-VOO.” “Mademoiselle Parley-Voo,” a sequel to “Mademoiselle From Armentiercs,” showing at The People’s, New Plymouth, to-night and to-morrow night, contains several new and bright ideas. “Mademoiselle” and her husband John run a revue, and the story of a stolen ruby is told against a background of stage production-which is at. least-as good as anything of this kind yet attempted in British or American films. British

beauty is well to the fore in a shapely chorus, while the theatre scenes are so 1 convincing that some people will hardly credit° that they were all produced in a complete theatre built in the studio. As “Mademoiselle,” Estelle Brody has her best part since “Armentieres,” and is particularly attractive in tights and her silk stage . wig. John Stuart is again anxious about her quite innocent association with other men, and Humberston Wright appears as the stage door-keeper. The supports include “Songs of Central Europe”, (a musical novelty), “Angel Face” (comedy), “Box* ing” (interest), and Gaumont Overseas News.