ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, 5 October 1929, Page 13

ENTERTAINMENTS

EVERYBQDY’S THEATRE. BIG TALKIE MATINEE TO-DAY 2 P.M “Cisco Kid” had eluded capture, even though there was a. price of 5000 dollars on his head, dead or .alive, not only because he could shoot five-sixths of a second faster than any sheriff, ranger or soldier in the service, but also because he rode a pony that knew every cowpath in the mesquite and pear thickets in the old south-west. “Sergeant Mickey Dunn,” of the 17th Cavalry, was puiqued because his colonel berated him for letting the Cisco Kid run wild. He determined tb capture him, and do it alone. The scent led to the adobe house of ‘‘Tonia Maria,” the fiery half Mexican, beautiful and passionate, whom Cisco Kid loved. There Sergeant Mickey failed to find the Cisco Kid, but he did find love, and when Toma .Maria and Mickey planned together to get. "the Cisco Kid they .were playing with dynamite. The Kid overheard their plan and proceeded to do some planning himself. What happens forms one of the most sensational denouements that ever has. been seen in a picture. The picture is JHn Old Arizona,” Fox Film, the first feature length film drama to be made entirely with Fox Movietone. The. three featured players, Edmund Lowe, Dorothy Burgess and Warner Baxter, are seen and' heard, also every member of the big supporting cast. All speak their parts throughout the film. The story and dialogue are by Tom Barry and the direction is by Irving Cummings and Raoul Walsh. The picture will show at Everybody’s to-day at the matinee, and again to-night and Monday and Tuesday nights. The supporting Movietone featurettes will include Fox Movietone News, “Belle of Samoa,” a tabloid musical comedy starring Lois Moran, Clark and McCullough), and Bonelli and Keller (famous stage stars). THE PEOPLE’S. MONSTER MATINEE TO-DAY, 2 P.M. Piracy—seal-hunting—the desolate Pribilof Islands in Bering Sea—plots 'and counter-plots—-enough fighting to satisfy the most exacting spectator — these are some of the features of “The Far Call,” Allan D wan’s salty drama for Fox Films, which screens at the matinee to-day at 2, p.m. and finally to-night at 7.45 p.m. Based on Edison Marshall’s popular novel of the same name, the picture begins in Shanghai, continues on the Pacific and on St. Paul Island, and ends in Heaven —at least, for the two principal characters, Charles Morton and Leila Hyams. With such excellent players as Ulrich Haupt, Stanley J. Sandford, Charles Middleton, Arthur Stone and Ivan Linow in support, both Morton and the fair Miss Hyams give an. unusually convincing and splendid performance. Dwan’s direction again proves that he is a master of the megaphone, and altogether “The Far Call’ can be classed as both interesting and entertaining. The supports include Fox News, Variety, “Easy Payments” (comedy) and “The Mystery Rider,” Chapter 5. OPERA HOUSE. FINALLY TO-NIGHT. “Children of the Ritz,” and "The Garden of Allah,” which were well liked by the patrons at the Opera House last nioht. will be finally presented to-night. “Children of the Ritz” stars Dorothy Mackaill and Jack Mulhall, and is a lively human story showing life on both the upper and lower strata of New York society. Heading a brilliant supporting cast arc James Ford, Kathryn McGuire, Doris Dawson, Edward Burns, and Lee Moran. John Francis Dillon directed the picture, which was based on a 10,006 dollar prize magazine story. “The Garden of Allah,” the M.G.M. Rex Ingram special, was photographed on the actual locales in Northern Algeria as described

in Hichens’ novel and moves with a subtle dignity amid the spell of the unfathomable East. Glowing sunsets, withering sandstorms, voluptuous Arabian dancers and quaint glimpses of desert life are all combined to form a vivid background for the story of a man’s soul torn between the call of love and the equally insistent voice of his holy voivs. Alice Terry and Ivon Petro vitch head the big cast. The musical accompaniment is rendered by the Opera House Orchestra.