ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, 24 September 1930, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

THE REGENT. LEO CARRILLO'S FIRST ’tALKIE. Booth Tarkington is never anything but delightful and to know that he is the author of “Alister Antonio,” which si ar:; Leo Carrillo and Virginia Valli, is a guarantee of genuine entertainment. This picture is to be presented at The Regent to-night. Leo Carrillo will be remembered in New Plymouth as the star of “Lombardi, Ltd.,” the famous J. C. Williamson stago play. Antonio Giovanni Rafaello Garibaldi Alussolini Camai.Kiino is the name of this lovable man, who sells flowers in the winter in the crowded East Side streets of New York and with the first whiff of spring, turns to the open road with his hurdy gurdy. His travels take him to a small town that boasts of its purity. To the tramps its is known as the town where the only hand-out is a ten day sentence, and where even the cooties in the jaij “ain’t allowed to bite yeh on Sunday!” To tliis purity centre comes, Alister Antonio to park his music box in front of the Mayor’s house and rend the peaceful air of Sunday morning with the strains of ‘‘Onward Christian Soldiers.” Tony and the Alayor have met before, in a New York speakeasy when the Alayor had forgotten that he “stood for purity,” and that he was a “paragon of morality,” and Tony’s generosity and Good Samaritanism had saved the Alayor’s spotless reputation. Now Tony has a favour to ask of his “friend the Alayor” on behalf of a beautiful young girl. It is a most awkward situatiou for the Mayor, and becomes a pretty serious one for Tony, who has fallen in love “at first lookings” with the lovely and unjustly persecuted June, played by Aliss Valli. The supporting programme will include Movietone News, Audio Review, Pathe Sound News, U.F.A. Gem and Song-Copation (pot pourri of modern song and dance numbers). “ALL QUIET ON WESTERN FRONT.” FEATU'RE AT EVER YBODY’S. Whatever may have been experts’ conjectures as to the public’s possible reaction to s a motion picture version of such a book as E. Al. Remarque’s “All Quiet on the Western Front,” it has, now been definitely proved that the screen production made by Universal pictures has turned out to be the most sought after screen entertainment in the- history of talking pictures. Its first full week broke the all-tiine record of business at the Central Theatre, New A’ork. Its second week broke that record by 1000 dollars. It has consistently played to almost 4000 dollars more than capacity of the house. This is due to special midnight performances which had to be added in order to accommodate the crowds that surged about the theatre. Forty-two speculators and their agents were arrested in front of the theatre, and a special officer had to be engaged to protect the theatre against the speculators’ methods of buying individual pairs of scats. “All Quiet” was in its third week in Detroit at the Paramount Theatre. Although Detroit was in the doldrums as far as amusements and employment are concerned, “All Quiet on the Western Front” was playing to capacity. It opened at the Warfield, San Francisco, playing to capacity; in its fourth week at the Auditorium Theatre in Baltimore, it had broken the alltune record'of the house; it was playing to capacity in the Alusic Box Thcat;<» in Seattle, where it was in its second week. Coming nearer home. “All Quiet” opened at the Theatre Royal, Sydney, on June 21. and has since been playing to crowded audiences three sessions daily. The general impression is that this war picture, or more correctly, sermon on the futility of war, is the most profound drama, yet presented to the audible screen. Showing every night at Everybody’s with special matinees to-morrow and Friday.