ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, 21 December 1929, Page 14

ENTERTAINMENTS

EVERYBODY’S “TALKIES.” MONSTER MATINEE TO-DAY 2 P.M. The bringing of the famous stage play, “Interference,” to the screen, as an all-talking picture, is one of the greatest achievements the Paramount /studios have yet performed, and in this form it will commence a special season at Everybody’s “talkies,” New Plymouth, to-day at 2 p.m. and to-night at 8 p.m. With a full 100 per cent, synchronisation with the human voice in dialogue, and with natural sound effects, resulting from the action of the play, “Interference” certainly marks a new standard in talking pictures. The fitory centres round the career of Philip Voaze, a suave roue, who is as cynical as he is charming. He throws over Deborah Kane for the fresh innocence of Faith, but kills his young wife’s love by his dissolute habits? About his one act of grace was to disappear from mortal ken when he was reported killed in action in the Great War. Faith then marries the famous London surgeon, Sir John Marlay, but her happiness is rudely shattered when Deborah calls and tells her that her first husband is stiff living, and threatens to divulge to Sir John 0 that his wife is a bigamist. The unscrupulous Deborah blackmails Faith, but when Voaze learns of what is going on he returns to Deborah, and. by a promise of reconciliation and marriage,

, obtains the letters. In a fit of drunken . loathing Voaze poisons a drink and kills Deborah. Previous to this Voaze has told‘the doctor everything, and Sir John Marlay calls on Deborah, only to find her dead, and to find his wife’s handbag in her room. He quickly destroys • all° clues, and establishes evidence of i suicide, but Inspector Hayes, of Scotland Yard, is an experienced officer, and is just about to arrest Sir John Marlay for murder when Voaze steps forward and nonchalantly confesses that he put Deborah out of-the way. The story is an intensely dramatic one, and the moving, tale is’told with brilliance and fascination. The acting ia splendid throughout, the ...east being headed by Evelyn -.'Brent, Clive Brook, William Powell and i Doris Kenyon. A special added attraci tion will be the Melbourne. Cup, 1929. This great event is presented in sound as weR as sight, and shows you Nightmarch, the great New Zealand horse, . in the triumph of hie career. The supporting programme includes Fox Movietone News, “That Party in Person” (EdI die Cantor in short act), “His College t Chums” (featuring Eddie Peabody, ban- | joist), and “Old Black Joe”/ (Paramount novelty singing cartoon). I x ! OPERA HOUSE. I ! TO-NIGHT ONLY. The programme to be submitted to patrons at the Opera House,-New Plymouth, to-night will comprise two fine feature length attractions and a Gazette. The first feature to be screened is entitled “Modern Matrimony.” The. story concerns Sally Williams, whose view of matrimony life of her drudge of a mother, exhausted by her child-bearing and household slavery, and of her shiftless,. drunken father who deserts his family and is sent back by the Judge of the Juvenile Court., She loves Donald Moore, happy, optimistic son of a wealthy man, to whom she serves as secretary. Donald wants to marry hey, but she gently puts him off; she is afraid of marriage. But when Donald himself comes to fear marriage through an unfortunate experience of his younger sister, resulting in death, and the supposed happy life of his parents is a farce, she is willing to marry him because he feels that he needs her. Billy Bronson and Alex. B. Francis head the cast. The second picture is a British attraction, “The Third Eye.” which features Dorothy Seaeombe and a big east. This picture is claimed to be the first television motion picture and it is one of the most ingenious crook dramas that has been brought to the screen, I and the settings chiefly in and about I London are appropriate and realistic. The television theme is so cleverly exploited that it holds the audience‘’s interest from the first to last reel. The story tells of a series of daring bank robberies which are carried out by a band of crooks who use a remarkable television set to obtain safe combinations. The Opera Rouse orchestra will be in attendance. THE PEOPLE’S. EIG MATINEE- TO-DAY 2 P.M. Two of screendom’s most popular vounger players, Mary Brian and Richard Arlen, have the leading roles in Paramount’s latest all-talking picture of thrills and romance, “The Man I Love.” And Mary Brian’s voice is heard for the first time from the screen singing “Celia,” the song written especially for her. This is the attraction which will entertain at the People’s “talkies,” New Plymouth, to-day at 2 p.m. and tonight at 8 p.m. The picture deals with the ups and downs of a pair of young sweethearts. The boy goes to New York and, when the‘girl follows him there, she finds that he has yielded to the charms of a wealthy society woman. Through this woman's influence he has made a great success. The girl’s efforts to reclaim him are fruitless until, in an exciting incident, another lover of the society" woman wounds the boy. Then the girl wins, Baclanova, the Moscow Art Theatre primd donna, who has had a;quicki’:risd:ij;iilj|!i|jfen« on the American screen, has the role of the wealthy so-, cietv woman. Inimitable bits of com-