ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, 23 December 1929, Page 14

ENTERTAINMENTS

EVERYBODY’S THEATRE. “INTERFERENCE” A REVELATION. “Interference,” the Paramount alltalking picture which commenced a fivenight season at Everybody’s “talkies, ’- New Plymouth, on Saturday night was adapted from the London and New York stage succeso. As a “talkie” it is a revelation, and will be remembered for years to conic. - It has been called a ■ “melodrama of the upperworld,” and is every bit of that. It concerns the story of a polished reprobate, living on the brink of death, who kills a woman who loves him and gives his own life to save the reputation of the woman he himself loves. For downright sheer drama the screen has not seen its equal this season. Paramount could not have possibly chosen a better cast to portray this unusual story. William Powell is the despoiler, the central character whose return from the dead kills one woman and almost wrecks the happiness of another, yet this is a sympathetic role. Evelyn Brent is Powell’s former sweetheart whose love for him costs her life; a cruel and calculating woman of the world, yet whose love for Powell is deep and constant. Clive Brook is the famous and respected surgeon, husband of Doris Kenyon. Brook finds himself almost hopelessly involved by the ghost of his wife’s former love. Miss Kenyon also is the wife of. Powell, for whose caresses he cared too late. These are the four main characters in the play, and the supporting cast includes. Tom Ricketts, Brandon Hurst, Louis Payne, Wilfred Noy, Donald Stuart, Clyde Cook 'and Raymond Lawrence. The supporting programme includes Fox Movietone News, “That Party in Person” (Eddie Cantor in singing act), “His College Chinns” (musical act headed by Eddie Peabody, banjoist), “Old Black Joe,” and a line film, presenting in sight and sound the winning of the Melbourne Cup by Nightmafch. There will be a monster special matinee to-morrow at 2 p.m. PEOPLE’S TALKIES. “THE MAN I LOVE.” Love, its ups and downs, as Richard Arlen and the lovable Mary Brian can portray it, is the theme of the alltalking Paramount picture, “The Man I Love,” which is now showing at the People’s talkies, New Plymouth. It is a super-romantic drama, directed by William A. Wellman, the man who made “Wings,” “Legion of the Condemned,” “Ladies of the Mob,” and “Beggars of Life.” A strong cast handles the thoroughly human characters of the story. The picture tells the story of an ambitious young man who decides to seek fame in New York. The hometown girl to whom he is engaged follows him to the big city only to fiud that, through the interest of a wealthy society woman, he has made an instantaneous success and, drv ;k with popularity, has entered into a mad whirl of living. The active jealousy of a rival and the hometown girl’s decision to leave him bring him to his senses. It is a picture filled with emotion, bubbling with humour and packed with thrills. An excellent supporting programme is headed by the Melbourne Cup, 1929. This is presented in sound as well as sight. There will be a big matinee to-morrow at 2 p.m. OPERA HOUSE. “The Runaway Princess,” released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which commences a two-night season at the Opera House, New Plymouth, to-night, is one of the most eventful stories adapted to the screen in recent months, and a fine British cast of experienced players make the entertainment even more enjoyable. Mady Christians, famous English actress, will find immediate favour with local movie-goers in the title role. A young Princess of a Balkan kingdom, her rebellion against the monotony of Court life reaches the limit of her endurance when her betrothal is announced to the Crown Prince of Savona. and she decides to run away incognito with her old tutor. Whilst cycling the afternoon before her disappearance from Court, she meets the Crown Prince, who is out walking prior to the morrow's cerem ;ny at the Court, but she does not know who he is. However. this chance meeting is a fateful event, as the young Prince is handsome and falls in love with her. When she goes to London he follows her and, at the end of an amazing series of adventurous thrills, saves her from a forger’s fate, she having been victimised by real forgers. Paul Cavanagh makes a very impressive Crown Prince, and Nora Baring, as the forger, conveys the requisite villainy with admirable effect. “The Runaway Princess” is great entertainment. The supporting programme includes M.G.M. News, Australian Scenic, New. Zealand Scenic, and “We Faw Down” (comedy). The Opera House orchestra will be in attendance.