ENTERTAINMENTS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 10488, 28 December 1929, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

TEMUKA PICTURES. DANE AND ARTHUR HIT CREST OF FUN WAVE. That great comedy team. Karl Dane and George K. Arthur, will be hack again at Temuka to-night, in a laugh-producing vehicle that affords the widest range to their comic versatility. It is “China Bound.” a Metro-Goldyyn-Mayer feature. directed by Charles F. (Chuck) Reisner, famous builder of laugh pictures. “China Bound” furnishes them with a new vehicle for characterisation as they go blunderingly on, first with Dane as a stoker and Arthur as his stowaway pal, and later in the Chinese coolie disguises. The Chinese settings, too, are remarkable in their faithfulness to our conception of what a Chinese setting should look like. The story is a splendid comedy and provides many opportunities for the bulky antics of the huge Dane, who in this picture, unlike others, is his partner’s pal and not his rival in love. Each has a sweetlieart, Polly Moran playing this role for Dane, and Josephine Dunn as leading lady for Arthur. Splendid supporting pictures will also be screened.

GERALDINE MUNICIPAL THEATRE.

The filming of “The Battle of the Sexes,” which is coining to the Geraldine Municipal Theatre to-night, marks D. AV. Griffith’s twentieth year in mol ion pictures. In the midst of its production, Hollywood turned out en masse to pay homage to the distinguished motion pictore impresario. Cecil B. DeMille was master of ceremonies. He eulogised Griffith, and said that his ideals had been the inspiration of all sincere workers in the industry. “Sculpture had its Rodin,” he said, “music its Wagner and Beethoven, the art of painting its Rembrandt, literature its Shakespeare, and the motion picture art, the greatest in point of popularity and appreciation, has its Griffith.” DeMille went on to say that it was Griffith’s sheer iconoclastic disregard for established filming methods in 1908 that paved the way for the present era of technical and artistic pictorial screen triumphs. There will be a full supporting programme.