ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, 22 November 1929, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS

EVERYBODY’S TALKIES. “THE TERROR” FINALLY. The big Warner Bros. Vitaphone alltalking special, “The Terror,” will be finally screened at Everybody’s Theatre to-night, together with the brilliant array of talking, singing and sound shorts. “The Terror,” which is by -Edgar Wallace, is one of the finest alldialogue productions so far presented. “Speakeasy,” the most convincing dialogue picture yet to reach the screen, will commence a season at Everybody'S Talkies to-morrow, Saturday, at 2 p.m., and 8 p.m. It is a story of New York, filmed in New York, acted by a cast of thoroughly competent stage players, and is so realistic one leaves the theatre with the thought of having just returned from a journey to the great metropolis. Apart from the brilliant performances given by th© players, and each one is effective in their respective roles, this all-dialogue Fox-Movietone photoplay is filled with numerous inspiring “shots” which keep the onlooker in a prolonged gasp of astonishment. If you can imagine the thrill of watching and. hearing a crowd of some twenty thousand enthusiastic boxing fans ting on all six” in the famous Madison Square Garden, or watching and hearing New York subway trains thunder and boom in and out of stations, or and listen to the great crowd of people in the Grand Central terminal in New York without having seen and heard them before then you need never attend another motion picture show — you can sit home and imagine them. While all these innovations tend to stir your enthusiasm, the story ; s no less interesting, molding, as it dees, . the dramatic thread with the spoken lines. The players, all newcomers, recrtiiled from the legitimate stage, cover themselves with glory. Paul Page, Lola Lane, our old friend Henry B. Walthall, Sharon Lynn, Helen Ware and others. are excellent in their characterisations. The story is based on the stage play of the same name by Edward KnobloeK and George Rosner. The production was directed by Benjamin Stoloff. There will be an excellent supporting' selection of Movietone featurettes.

OPERA HOUSE, NEW PLYMOUTH. TO-MORROW NIGHT. "Tiie House of Horror,” starring Chester Conklin, Louise Fazenda, Thelma Todd, and “The Forger,” a British production will both be screened on the programme at the New Plymouth Opera House to-morrow night. "The House of Horror” will be screened first oh the programme. This story of mystery, so mysterious even in its origin, concerns a huge blue diamond, a strange establishment called “The Curiosity Shop, to conceal its real nature, and grotesque human beings. It is brimful of comedy, too, and therein Miss Fazenda scores. The art of being frightened she had developed to its very height, . and through it creates her . new speciality, comedy in mystery thrillers. “The Forger” is an adaptation of Edgar Wallace’s great novel. It concerns Peter Clifton, a wealthy -young man, .but believed tp be the son- of- a homicidal lunatic who is everywhere linked up with notorious forgeries, of which he-em-phatically denies- all : knowledge.'jWhen

a murder is committed, and the circumstantial evidence points to his being the perpetrator of the crime, the facts about his parentage lead him to believe in his own guilt, though he remembers nothing of the crime. Who killed the murdered man? Who is the forger? For the answer you must see the picture. Nigel Barrie and Lilian Rich head the big cast. There is a gazette to open and the Opera House Orchestra will be in attendance. PEOPLE’S TALKIES. FAMILY NIGHT TO-NIGHT. The Paramount talking and musically synchronised . comedy-drama, “The Carnation Kid,” starring Douglas McLean, will be finally screened at the People’s Talkies to-night. A supporting programme of talkie shorts is also screened. In “'Fashions of Love,” commencing a season at the People’s Talkies to-mor-row at 2 p.m. and at 8 p.m., Adolphe Menjou, ' suave sophisticate of the screen, plays one of those roles that has made him popular. In “Fashions in Love,” which is his first talking picture, he has the part of a musician much admired by the women. Fay Compton, one of the most noted actresses of the English stage, has appeared in many pictures. Miriam Seegar is “the other woman,” also making her debut in pictures, having been for years on the stage in London. John Miljan. plays the remaining important role in the picture. “Fashions in Love” is from the stage play “The Concert,” by Hermann Bahr. It tells of a musician who finds tie adoration of women for Iris work as interesting as the mild flirtations he has with them. And then it tells of the cure effected by the wife. There,will be a good array of supporting. Movietone featurettes.