ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, 7 August 1930, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

THE REGENT. ALL-TALKING COMEDY. One of the most entertaining best directed and best enacted talking pictures which has yet come from the I'ox Alovietono studios, “Harmony at Home,’’ an all-talker, commenced a thrcc-night season at The Regent last night. The production was directed by Hamilton AlcFadden, former brilliant stage director in New York, and has an all-star cast including William Collier, sen., Marguerite Churchill, Elizabeth Patterson,°Rex Bell, Charles Eaton, Charlotte Henry, Dot Farley and Dixie Lee. Adapted from Harry Delf’s stage play, ‘‘The Family Upstairs,” it is a frank story of an average American, family, its moods, and merriment, especially the efforts of the head of the household to be the boss. The supporting programme included Alae Mallet’s Orchestra, Fox Movietone News, “Pat Looney’s Songs., and “Fairways and Foul” (all-talking golfing comedy). EVERYBODY’S TALKIES. "HOT FOR -PARIS.” "Hot for Paris,” starring Victor A£cLaglen and El Brendel, is heading the current programme at Everybody’s Talkies. While bn shore leave AlcLaglen buys a ticket in the Calcutta Sweepstakes.* Suffice to say he wins a million dollars and, mistaking the lottery’s representative for a police, prefect, proceeds to run away from his fortune. In .the. course of the chase he meets I 1 iff, a dancer, saves her from the unwelcome attentions of another, goes with'her to a neighbouring wedding, makes whoopee and gets into more trouble. A ludicrous climax is furnished when Brendel and the bride to be tilt too many wine bottles down their throats. Several catchy songs are contributed by Edgar Leslie and Walter Donaldson, most of which are sung by Aliss Dorsay.. The supporting cast includes Eddie Dillon, Lennox Pawle, August Tollaire, George Fawcett, Charles Judels and many, others. The players are uniformly excellent. The supports include Path® Sound News, Audio Review, "Nonsuited” (short playlet)-, ."Spellbinder’’ (special short), and "Beach Babies”, (two-reel talking comedy). -

“THREE LIVE GHOSTS.”

‘•'Three Live Ghosts,” United Artiste* all-talking comedy-drama, commencing a special season of six matinees, and six nights at The Regent on Saturday next, is unique in that it is entirely different in its theme, story construction and locale from any all-talking picture thus far produced. There are no courtroom, theatre ornight-club scenes depicted in. “Three Live Ghosts,” nor does the picture feature a_ theme song or song and dance specialities. Thornton Freeland, director of “Three Live Ghosts.” pointed out that every all-talking picture produced to date hats either featured back-stage life, a courtroom locale, or was a singing and dancing revue. ‘‘Three Live Ghosts” deals with the complications that arise when three British soldiers, after escaping from a German prison camp, return to London and learn to their amazement that they have been listed by the government as “killed in action.” Another distinction claimed for “Three Live Ghosts” is that it is the first all-talking all-sound motion picture to feature an all-stage cast, which includes Beryl Mer-' cer, Charles McNaughton,'Robert MontGomery, Joan Bennett, Claud Allister, Hilda Vaughan, Shayle Gardner, Harry Stubbs, Jack Cooper, Jocelyn Lee, Nancy Price and Tenen Holtz. “Three Live Ghosts” is based on the famous com-’edy-drama stage hit of that name and enjoyed brilliant engagement in both New York and in London. Box plans open at Collier’s this morning at'nine