"THE CARNATION KID” AT LIBERTY THEATRE.
A full-length feature talkie, the Fox Movietone News of the World, a talking comedy entitled “Spontaneous Spasms,” starring the famous comedy team, Clapham and Dwyer, a Ufa Gem, “An Ancient Art,” and a delightful musical number, “Alusic of Many Nations,” are some of the numbers on this week’s programme at Liberty Theatre Talkies. The principal picture is the Douglas M'Lean all-talking comedy, “The Carnation Kid,” an amusing mixture of sheer comedy and the melodramatic atmosphere of the underworld and gangsters. Frances Lee, Lorraine Eddy, and Francis M’Donald are in the supporting cast, all film players of long standing who learnt the acting and elocutionary arts on the stage, and who are an ornament to any talkie. “The Carnation Kid” may be recommended as a capitally entertaining picture from the viewpoint of action, excitement, mystery and romance, and the voices are among the best heard on the speaking screen for some time. The box plans are at The Bristol Piano Company, where seats may be reserved. On Monday the plans will be at the theatre.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18901, 28 October 1929, Page 7
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