ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, 21 November 1929, Page 12

ENTERTAINMENTS

EVERYBODYS "TALKIES.” LAST TWO SCREENINGS. ’ “The Terror,” showing at Everybodys “Talkies” to-night, and finally to-mor-row night, does not fool the audience. The audience fools itself. Character after character seems to be the one on whom the blame for the gruesome and ludicrous deeds of the hooded terror should fall. Not till the last fade-out, however, -does anyone guess the identity of “The Terror,” or the truth about the hidden loot and the looter himself. “The Terror,” which is a Warner Bros. Vitaphone adaptation of Edgar Wallace’s book, is one of the most thrilling "talkies” ever screened, and the big cast is headed by May McAvoy and Edward Everett Horton. The supporting talkie shorts are of a very high standard. “SPEAKEASY.” The big Fox Movietone Special, “Speakeasy,” will head the new talkie programme at Everybodys next Saturday. It is a thrilling drama of a plucky girl in a*big town struggling to rescue her man from his associates on Broadway. It will let you see and hear New York life as it has never been seen and heard before. Paul Page, Lola Lane, and Henry B. Wathall head the big cast. , PEOPLE’S “TALKIES.” “THE CARNATION KID.” While presidents and governors and what not are being elected, there’s another election on which is full of thrills and fights, all of which makes some unusually timely and • interesting moving picture entertainment. It is “The Carnation Kid,” the new Paramount Douglas Mac Lean Christie production, which is now showing at the People’s “Talkies.” In the Mac Lean picture there’s a district attorney running for office in a big city; and some very dangerous underworld forces importing a famous gunman to see that the district attorney •never has a chance to run again. From the time that the young typewriter salesman is mistaken on the train for the notorious Carnation Kil with his newly-in-vented machine gun, things begin to move in the plot. Mac Lean plays the part of Clarence, the typewriter salesman; Francis McDonald is the real Carnation Kid. The supporting programme includes Guaniont Overseas News, "It Happened to Him” (singing and dialogue number); “Meet the Missus” (all-talking comedy), and Reginald Werrcnratli (famous Victor recording artist). HOSPITAL RADIO FUND. CONCERT BY HAWERA MUSICAL SO A rare opportunity of hearing some excellent music, and at the same time of assisting the fund for equipping the New Plymouth public hospital with radio receiving sets, will be afforded the public on Wednesday evening next, when a concert will be given in the Opera House by the Hawera Orchestral Society and the Hawera -Male Choir, assisted by soloists of both societies and other artists, and the Hawera Choir Male Quartette. The programme includes a number of popular selections by the orchestra, some fine part-songs by the male choir, all under the direction of Mr. Herbert Webb, together with vocal and instrumental solos by Mrs. Sunderland, Miss McGlashen, Messrs. B, Malone, E. Pacey and A. E. Morris, violin solos by. Miss Betty Sturrock, A.R.C.M., elocution items by Miss D. Clement, . and quartettes by Messrs. J. C. Smith, A. E. Morris, B. Malone, and G. H. Buckridge. Sirs. D. Quin will be the accompanist. It is rare for the people of New Plymouth to have the opportunity of hearing a full orchestra, and for the chance of hearing this combination, which deservedly has a high reputation, should be readily embraced, and the cause for which the concert is being given should make a wide appeal. The box plan will be at Collier’s on Saturday.