GAOL IS LOCALE OF FUNNY PICTURE AT EVERYBODY’S THEATRE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18786, 15 June 1929, Page 9

GAOL IS LOCALE OF FUNNY PICTURE AT EVERYBODY’S THEATRE.

The management of Everybody’s Theatre are presenting a most intei'esting comedy programme next week, Karl Dane and George K. Ai*thur in “ Bi’otherly Love,” and Glenn Tryon and Barbara Kent in “ Lonesome,” are the two big comedies to be offei'ed, and there will also be the usual bill of gazettes and short subjects. “ Brotherly Love ” concerns a prison warder, played by Karl Dane, who becomes embroiled in an argument with a fashionable little hairdresser, played with many exquisite mannerisms by George K. Arhtur. As a result the warden uses influence, and has the minion cast into gaol. This gaol is the locale of the picture, surely a Very original place. Once there, both men fall in love with the prison governor’s daughter; and then the fun begins. Ivarl Dane is big and burly, and George Arthur is very small, but game. So “ Brotherly Love ” immediately Commences to impress the public as a hilarious effoi-t on the part of this popular comedy team. High jinks in a penitentiary, with the governor’s daughter alternately favouring the warden and the pi’isoner; plot and counter-plot, romance, everything, but always plenty of good, hearty fun. Jean Arthur is the lady in the case, and there is a football 'match between rival prisons that is one of the most priceless burlesques ever seen on the screen.

In “ Lonesome,” Glenn Tryon does not devote himself exclusively to comedy, but tries his hand, most successfully, at a littlo of the sterner stuff. He plays a linotype opei'ator, a lonely soul, who meets a telephone operator, another lonely soul, and the two decide that they shall cure each other. It is humorous, human, always bright and vivacious, but it is also just a little pathetic in parts. Mr Albert Bidgood has arranged the following musical programme for the .Select Orchestra:—Overture, “ Invitation to the Dance” (Weber); suites, “ Four Fancies ” (Somerville), “ Miniatures” (O’Donnell), “Les Deux Pigeons” (Messager); selections, “Last Waltz” (Strauss), “My Son John” (Morgan), “ Chariot Show ” (Brahms) ; “ Oberon ” (Weber), “Song of Sleep” (Lord Henry Somerset), “Bell Boy” (Clark), “Lonesome” (Oherniavsky); entr’acte, “ Culloden ” (Bidgood). Box plans are at The Bristol Piano Company, where seats may be l'eserved.