ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, 27 December 1929, Page 15

ENTERTAINMENTS

EVERYBODY’S TALKIES. “INTERFERENCE.” . In “Interference,” the Paramount 109 per cent, all-talking special diowing at Everybody’s talkies, New Plymouth, tonight at 8 p.m., Evelyn Brent plays the roTe of a woman who gains possession of a package of love letters written by another woman during a period of infatuation and uses them for blackmailing purposes. An arrest for suspected murder and other unfortunate consequences follow in the wake of the letters. Clive Brook, William Powell and Dorie Kenyon are the other ‘’caturcd players portraying the principal parts of the story. Lothar Mendes directed. There is a’ wonderful supporting programme of talking, singing and sound featurettes, including the Melbourne Cup. 1929. Bright, humorous, tuneful music is part of the entertainment and the plot of “Close Harmony,” the Paramount alltalking film of stage and back-stage life in a de luxe cinema palace which comes to Everybody's Theatre to-morrow (Saturday) at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Buddy Rogers and N.,ncy Carroll have the leadroles in the picture, and they are supported by Jack Oakie and Richaid “Skeets” Gallagher, vaudeville headliners, and Harry Green, another favourite of the variety stage. Nancy Carroll sings one of the numbers, “Go Places and Do Things.” Buddy also sings a song, “AU-a-Twitter,” and Oakie Gallacher has a harmony comedy song, rendered in the Van and Schenk mannei, “She’s So, I Dunno.” There is a band number, “Twelfth Street Rag,” in which Buddy plays several instruments of his band.

PEOPLE’S TALKIES. FAMILY NIGHT TO-NIGHT. “Beware of Bachelors,” finally showing at the People’s, New Plymouth, tonight, is an exceedingly clever treatment of a subject which has been gone over by story writers and dramatists from the beginning of time. There is a whimsical unexpectedness, a . charming youthfulness about it, and in spite of° the slapstick elements in which it abounds, it' has real heart interest. You’ll like the rioting newlyweds. Be sure to see them in “Beware of Bachelors.” Audrey Ferris and William Collier junr. head the cast, in this picture, which is preceded by a splendid supporting programme. One of the greatest dramas that have reached the stage or the screen is “The Letter,’? by W. Somerset Maughan, famous playwright. It is the story of a woman’s rebellion against the lonelincss monotony of the East and of a letter which she wrote in a moment of desperation, a letter that nearly sent her to gaol. You can see and hear * The Letter” nt the People’s talkies to-mor-row at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m., for it is a Paramount 100 per cent, talking special.

OPERA HOUSE. > “THE TRAGIC HOUR.” '‘The. Tragic Hour,” starring Maria Jqeabina, and “Matrimony,” starring Lil -Dagover, are two fine features now showing at the Opera House, New Plymouth. 0 The tragic life story of the notorious Roman family of Censi is the lierary work upon which the latest First National release “The .Tragic Hour,” is based. This story was written by one of the most famous of jnodern authors, and it has enjoyed a tremendous amount of popular public discussion. A film of quite an unusual nature , is “Matrimony,” which stars the talented European star - , Lil Dagover, with Urho Somersaline and Gosta Ekman in support. A man of lumberland simplicity in the Swedish timber country is faced with the task of tending single-handed to an unconscious woman whom he has rescued from the river. There is no alternative, and when she awakes she finds herself in bed with all her clothes placed to dry before a roaring fire. From this unconventional meeting love develops, And a marriage ensues. But the wife, an English widow, pines for the bright lights of London, and the society to which she has always been used. She returns to England, where a thoughtless action arouses her husband’s jealousy. He follows her, and the subsequent happenings and what has already been told forms one of the most entertaining films shown in this town for some time. There is a Gazette to open and the musical accompaniment is rendered by the Opera House orchestra.