ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, 16 January 1931, Page 5

ENTERTAINMENTS

EVERYBODY’S TALKIES. . “TEMPLE TOWER” FINALLY. Sinister figures lurking in the darkless, trap doors that precipitate the unwary into bottomless quicksands, a .fortune in emeralds, a terrified crook hiding behind the walls "of. an almost impregnable castle, a sinister “Masked Strangler”—such are a few of the many thrilling ingredients of ..“Temple Tower,” the Fox Movietone, murder mystery melodrama finally showing at Everybody’s, New Plymouth, to-night. Unlike many melodramas, however,' this qnq is funny enough to appeal to humour-loving fans as well as to those who' like their thrills. With Kenneth Mac Kenna in the swashbuckling but delightful role of “Bulldog Drummond,” with Marceline Day and Henry B. Walthall in support, the picture is remarkably well done. There is a fine supporting programme. “KING OF JAZZ,” “King of Jazz,” Universal’s marvellous all technicolour production starring the world-famops Paul Whiteman and his band, commences at Everybody’s tomorrow at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Besides Paul Whiteman and his band, who appear in person in a variety of numbers as well as providing the music all through the picture, ‘‘King of Jazz” presents an array of stars hitherto unapproached in a single picture. Laura La Plante, J ohu Boles, the sensation of the singing screen; Jeanette Loff, Stanley Smith, the-famous Russell Mar-, kert dancers, Grace Hayes, Billy Kent, Charles Irwin, Paul Howard, Al Norman, Tommy Atkins’ sextet and Nell O’Day, all headliners of the vaudeville, stage; the celebrated Sisters “G,” the dancing rage of Europe brought especially from Berlin; Rose Statler, Jeanie Lang, and qountless others from all spheres of entertainment world appear in their choicest numbers. Mabel Wayne, who wrote “Ramona”; Milton Ager and Jack Yellen, who wrote “I Wonder What Became of Sally,” wrote new music especially for the revue. George Gershwin contributed his immortal “Rhapsody in Blue,” conceded to be a classic of modern jazz, for an atmospheric number in which 10 beautiful girls toe-dance the number on the biggest piano eVer built. Herman Rosse, the famous New York theatrical designer who has been responsible for the costumes and scenic effects of many of the metropolis’ most celebrated shows, designed all the beautiful costumes, and settings for “King of Jazz.” Each number, separate in itself, called for a separate setting, more lavish, more georgwus than the last. A new innovation which he calls “colour-tone,” was invented for the picture by Rosse, by means of which he suits the moods of his creations exactly to the Whiteman music throughout, the film. THE REGENT. FAMILY NIGHT TO-NIGHf, Something “different” in the way ot crook pictures is offered in “Good Intentions,” the exciting Fox movietone production finally showing at The Regent, New Plymouth, to-night. . In writing the original story as well as in the direction, William K. Howard has deviated considerably from the customary roughneck gangster tale and has presented a clever group of international crooks, well dressed and well poised, as the collective menace of the picture. Edmund Lowe, as the leader of the L rou W the

obstacles that motivate the story when he decides to. live down his, past and go straight. His former associates provide the obstacles and his partial overcoming, of theni gives rise to an unusually interesting screen plot/ 'Marguerite Uhurchill, Regis Toomey, Owen Davis, Jr., and Hale Hamilton' are, the oth r featured players. There, is a good supporting programme.COMMENCING TO-MORROW. George. Bancroft,, star of “Thunderbolt” comes to The Regent to-morrow at 2/'p.m. and 8 p.m. in Paramount’s thrilling all-talking drama ‘The Mighty.” In “The Mighty”' Bancroft plays the role of a-.returned war hero- who is given the leadership b? the police department of a crime-ridden city, the. people not knowing that Bancroft formerly ■ was a notorious gangster. He assembles, his old gang to make a haul and then decides. to go straight ' for'' the girl he loves ■ Warner Gland, Esther Ralston, O. P. Heggie, Raymond Hatton and Morgan Farley are also featured in the cast., ' , . .

THE OPERA HOUSE.

“WHAT PRICE GLORY.”

“What Price Glory,”, starring Victor McLaglen, Edmund. Lowe, Dolores Del Rio and those famous comics, Ted McNamara and Sammy Cohen, will play a return season of one night at the New Plymouth Opera House tomorrow (Saturday) night. This picture has been proclaimed by all those in'authority as the greatest motion picture ever made. It is not a war picture. War is its background. It is no more a war play than a love comedy laid in a sylvan setting would be called a rural play. Its authors took -war as the canvas on which to sketch their story; was as the great influence on men and women that would bring out pathos, comedy and human appeal as no other crisis in the affairs of nations could bring. Above all else there is comedy. Probably no picture ever made'along the edge of a great world tragedy ever hrd so much comedy. “What Price Glory” on the screen is peopled with real and human characters that will at once win favour. They are not just types. They are the genuine thing' in front of the camera, which makes no mistake. “What Price Glory” is not only a great and absorbing picture, with thrills and heart throbs and a world of comedy, but it is crowded with incidents that will bring a chuckle and a' thrill long after the moment.you seo it,