ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, 25 September 1930, Page 13

ENTERTAINMENTS

“NO, NO, NANETTE.” EVERYBODY’S—SATURDAY NEXT. The filming of motion pictures in colour reaches its greatest effectiveness in “No, No, Nanette,” First National’s lavish screen musical comedy, which comes to Everybody’s on Saturday next at 2 and 7.45 p.m., according to newspaper and magazine critics. The colours, it is said, are a delight to the eye and the scenes look as natural as they would outside the theatre. Players lorn the “shadow” effect of black and. white photography and look as real as people seen on the street. “No, No, Nanette,” in fact seems to represent the perfection of the Technicolour process. Four of the biggest scenes ever made for the screen have been filmed in colour for “No, No, Nanette.” They are the Mars, New York, Holland and Japanese numbers. The audiences reaction to these dazzling sequences, filmed on the largest sound stage in the world, built at the First National studio especially for this picture, is described as startling and lasting. Each of these scenes cost more money than the entire original fitago production, on which the screen version is based. “No, No, Nanette features Bernice Claire, Alexander Gray, Lucien Littlefield, Louise Fazenda and a tremendous cast and chorus. Plans open at Collier’s this morning. THE REGENT. .LEO CARRILLO’S FIRST TALKIE. What a treat is th© combination of Booth Tarkington, dramatist, Leo Carrillo, actor extraordinary, and the talking screen as synchronised by RCA Photophone! This is found in Mister A tonio,” the Cinema Art Films alltalkin<r picture iii which Virginia Valli co-stars with Carrillo. It is now showin at the Regent Theatre, New Flymouth, until Friday next, and it is a real delight. “Mister Antonio” is one of thosd whimsical, charming things that o-et under your skin and send you home in a glow of contentment. Tony is a hyphenated American who boasts of six names—Antonio Giovanni Rafaello Garibaldi Mussolini Camaradmo —the Mussolini added by himself! In winter he is a New York business man, but in the' spring he turns vagabond and travels where whimsy leads with his donkey-drawn hurdy gurdy and a half-wit boy whose chief joy is to shoot Tony with his cap pistols. These harmless pistols serve Tony well, for they introduce him to June Ramsey, who has just been turned out of town, and later they get him out of gaol. June is a poor relation of the mayors wife. Mayor Jorny runs a town of spotless virtue and when June’s innocent visit to a roadhouse jeopardises h ; re-election campaign, he turns her out in cold blood. He doesn’t know that his own son was her companion—June kept that a secret! However, you must see the picture to learn the rest of the story. The talkie supports include Pathe Sound News, “Dealers in Babies” (interest), “Song, Copation (pot nourri of modern song and dance numbers), Audio Review and Movietone News.