ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, 16 October 1930, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS

EVERYBODY’S TALKIES. i “LOVE COMES ALONG.” B«be Daniels follows her smashing success iu “Rio Rita” with another captivating performance in "Love Comes Along,” which commenced a three-night season at Everybody’s Talkies last i ni»ht. A brief feynonpsis of the story is as° follows. To happy-go-lucky Sailor Johnny (Lloyd Hughes),.one port is like any other —until he meets Peggy, an an American actress stranded on tlie island of Caparoja and forced to sing in Brown’s Tavern. Their mutual love seems headed for a happy fade-out, when Colonel Sangredo, infuriated by the perfidy of his sweetheart, Carlotta, decides to have another girl sing at the fiesta that night. Peggy, glad of an opportunity to earn sufficient money to return to America, consents. Johnny ascends to Peggy’s balcony to oiler her a parrot and a. proposal. Learning of her date with the notorious Sangredo, and seeing the abbreviated costume she plans to wear, Johnny believes she has been stringing him long. A heated quarrel results, and Peggy denounces her sailor lover. At the fiesta she regrets their quarrel and ' sings Love Comes Along when she catches a glimpse of Johnny. Sangredo, jealous, has the sailor arrested, but reluctantly releases him when Peggy promises to do anything he wishes. Love comes along to save Peggy from the fate worsfe than death. Lloyd Hughes and r Montague Love play the principal supporting roles. The supportting programme- includes Patlie Sound News, Cooper and Stept (jazz' singers), Movietone News, Benjamimo Gigli (leading tenor of. Metropolitan Grand Opera in popular concert numbers), and (Herbert Rawlinson (monologue). “PARAMOUNT ON PARADE.” The whole galaxy of Paramount stars, appears in “Paramount on Parade,” which commences at Everybody’s, New Plymouth, on Saturday next at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Many of the scenes arc iu technicolour, and humour abounds in the production. It is a musical comedy of the screen, in which. many of the greatest stars frolic for the benefit of the audience. Everyone of the stars in the huge cast plays a real part. There is Charles Rogers and Lilian Roth, with a boy and girl chorus; while William Powell as Philo Vance, Clive Brook as Sherlock Holmes, i Eugene Pallette as Sergeant Heath, and Warner Gland as Dr. Eu Manchu, appear in a clever travesty of detective mysteries. Then comes “The Toreador,” with Harry Green in that role, and Kay Francis as Carmen, .an altogether gorgeous item, followed by Ruth Chatterton in a Parisian cafe singing “My Marine”; Maurice Chevalier, in the role of a Paris gendarme, patrols a park with lovers on every bench, singing all the time “All 1 Want is Just One Girl,” and little Mitzi Green follows in. a burlesque of the slime song, after which she gives an imitation of Chevalier’s rendering. Helen Kane becomes a teacher of a modernistic schoolroom. Dennis King figures in the Gallows Song, while Skeets Gallagher rushes forward' demanding that King sing before h* dies. Others in the production are Clara Bow, Ricnard Arlenn, George Bancroft and Nancy Carroll. Bancroft’s item is indeed a scream. After going through a social function as he should, he demonstrates how he would like to act at a party. The concluding sketch of the session is another technicolour masterpiece, in which Maurice Chevalier and his company of girls apepar as chimney sweeps, afterwards floating away over the clouds to th;*, tune of “Sweeping the Clouds Away.” REGENT THEATRE. ' ,“THE AVIATOR.” If were a middle-aged author, afflicted with dyspepsia, jumpy nerves and an ’inflamed liver, and your' publisher’s publicity rpan had given you a tremendous —if fictitious —reputation as an aviator—if you were continually being called upon to give stunting exhibitions for the amusement/ of your awed admirers—what would you think of the publicity man—and of life in general? Edward Everett Horton is thus featured in. “The Aviator,” the Warner Brothers all-talking Vitaphone comedy which commenced a three-night season at' the Regent, New Plymouth, -last night, and in it he demonstrates that while a man who has never before been in an aeroplane is in imminent danger of breaking his fool neck, he is quite as likely to put on one of the craziest',- most breathtaking stunt scenes in the history ofaerial acrobatics. As an invigorating mixture of laughs and thrills, “The Aviator” sets a new mark. In the castare patsy Ruth Miller, Johnny Arthur, Lee Moran, ; Edward Martindel, Kewpie Morgan,-Phillips Smalley, -William Nor-, ton Bailey arid Armand Kaliz. Roy Del Ruth directed. The supporting' pro-, gramme included Pathe Sound News, “The Beautv Shop” (sketch), Larry Ceballos. Revue, Will ■ Oakland (popular tenor) and X. Siegat and Co. (presenting gypsy song and dance numbers);

INGLEWOOD TALKIE PROGRAMME.

“ALL QUIET’’ TOMORROW.

After .reviewing “All'Quiet on the Western Front” one of the prominent film critics ■sai'd: “It is'eight’ days since I saw this picture, but what I • saw is as vivid in my memory now. as it was that night. I can still see the gay schoolboys, their patriotism fired by the talk of their professor, leaving the class room and joining the army; the hard drill they underwent at the hands of Himmilstross; their fear when they reached the front; I can hear the shrieking shells which tear gaps in the ground; the rattle of the death-dealing machine guns, mowing men down like: wheat; the booming of the Big Berthas, their shells. spreading death arid desolation. I can see one by one the boys falling until Only one of - them is left. The serene, calm face of the French soldier lying dead in the shell-hole makes me shudder, even though it told that he was happy to die for his country. I can still see young Paul Baumer upon his return from home seeking to find his old chum ‘Kat,’ happy that he had found him still alive; young Paul carrying-' his wounded comrade away and-' talking to him, unaware of the fact that he was dead; I shudder at seeing Paul sticking his hand out to capture a butterfly and capturing an enemy bullet instead. Never in my reviewing career have I seen a picture that lingered in my memory, that aroused, a million and one emotions as ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ has aroused. It is so big, so impressive, that it towers above all war pictures in which actual fighting has been shown and abov, nine out of each ten productions that have been classed as road Shows. It .s a giant looking down on. pygmies.” “All Quiet’ commences a season at Ihglbwood tomorrow.