ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, 27 September 1930, Page 9

ENTERTAINMENTS

EVERYBODY’S TALKIES. MATINEE TO-DAY, 2 P.M. The mannagement of Everybody’s has secured another'bright winner in musical comedy talkies in “No, No, Nanette,” the screen version of that very amusing and picturesque musical play which was seen in New Zealand two years ago. with Elsie Prince arid James Godden in the chief roles. “No, No, Nanette,” will commence at Everybody’s to-day at 2 p.m. and 7.45, p.m. The screen version is a much ihote expansive and brilliant show, with hundreds of beautiful girls in ela-borately-mounted dancing ensembles and choral numbers, many of the scenes vising in colour, costume and scenic spleiidorit the yriry ibest pictures seen at this r tlmittrei<^oufr : is reserved for the final 20 iiilfidiie^’oS"the' picture arid .witnesses a further advance, in definition.. The story is too well known to require.recapitulation. It concerns the complications which follow the liberality of James Smith, a millionaire Bible publisher to a number of young ladies, all unknown to his confiding, skin-flint wife. At length these ladies from Boston Chicago become so importunate that he has to call in his lawyer to buy them off, but the .lawyer fails to fix things, and WenStrifth is spending , a clandestine Mtf ,'p‘et-fyctly innocent holiday at the seaside with his ward, Nanette, Mrs. Smith, egged on by Lucille (the lawyers wife), has Smith watched by private detectives, who arrange a coup by sending all- of Smith’s charmers to his seaside cottage, where they are faced by .the two irate wives. In the meantime Nanette induced Smith, to finance her lover’s show “Up in the Air,” which gives ample opportunity for a lavish theatrical display and some tit-bits of ■(romance. Bernice Claire acts and sings as-Nanette, and her opposite quietly played by Alex. Gray.. Lucien Littlefield is very amusing as Smith, and Louise Fazenda displays a fine facility for legitimate acting as his much-deceiv-ed wife. Lillian Tashman is admirable as Lucille; Bert Roach is the lawyer; and Zasu Pitts gets big laughs as a maid of all work. The programme also includes Movietone News, “Harry Rosenthal’s Musical Revels,” “Red Donohue and Uno” (in comedy playlet) and “The Hunt” (male quartet in popular hunting songs. ' T_ " ‘ v . THE REGENT. MATINEE TO-DAY, 2 P.M. \ . “The . Mounted Stranger,” Universal all-talking production, and “Seven Keys to Baldpate,” Radio all-talking special, will both be presented on the new programme at The Regent to-day at 2 p.m. and to-night at 7.45 p.m. “The Mounted Stranger” stars Hoot Gibson and Louise Lorraine, and is an adventure romance of the Rio Grande. As the hero-novel-ist of “Seven Keys to Baldpate,” Richard Dix begins his new career as a star of Radio Pictures. It is an auspicious start, giving Dix a part he has long longed to play, and fulfilling his promise to top the best of his brilliant career. The talking screen drama, adapted from the sensationally successful George M. Cohan play, which was based in turn <?n Earl Der Biggers’ novel, presents Dix as a writer who encounters an amazing night of adventure' in a deserted inn while on the quest of a place of solitude in which to work. Two veterans of the Broadway stage presentation, Joseph Allen and Carleton Macy, re-enact their parts in support of Dix. Others in the cast are Miriam Seegar, DeWitt Jennings, Margaret Livingston, Cranford Kent, Lucien Littlefield, Nella Walker, Joseph Herbert, Alien Roscoe, Harvey Clark and Edith Yorke. New thrills and laughs have been added to the classic farce melodrama by the expert direction of Reginald Barker. A Universal Talking Newsreel will open the programme. • “ROOKERY NOOK” aT WAITARA. The all-British comedy special, “Rookery Nook,” will be screened at the Theatre Royal, Waitara, this afternoon and evening. An English film reviewer, after having seen the talkcrisation of Ben Travers’ great stage play, called it “the laughter epic of the age.” Good, clean comedy is always good to watch, and “Rookery Nook,” the all-talking film version of the celebrated Aldwych farce, keeps the mind healthily occupied from beginning to end. Ben Travers’ farce is full of witty dialogue and sidesplitting situations. Imagine Ralph Lynn as Gerald Popkiss, the newly-married and quite harmless husband who visits the charming old country cottage “Rookery Nook” for a quiet rest, his wife to follow at a later date, only to discover a very pretty girl quite at home in the dining-room, clad only in pyjamas! I Trouble commences for poor Gerald, and I the fun waxes fast and furious. See “Rookery Nook” and have the biggest laugh you have had in years.