ALL-TALKING MYSTERY DRAMA COMING TO LIBERTY THEATRE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18938, 7 December 1929, Page 33 (Supplement)

ALL-TALKING MYSTERY DRAMA COMING TO LIBERTY THEATRE.

Both featured attraction, and the interesting talking supports at Liberty Theatre next week are of more than ordinary appeal. " The Hole in the Wall,” exploiting a novel theme, is adapted from the well-known stage play which had a long run in New York a few seasons ago, and a cast of experienced artists were assembled to play the roles. Among the supporting subjects, the all-talking comedy, “Lucky in Love,” stars Clyde Cook, the Australian comedian who has visited New Zealand with many companies, and a song cartoon, “ Yankee Doodle Boy ” is a musical number that is at once melodious and amusing in its manner of rendering. The News of the World opens with a visit to Brussels, and ends up in Havana Harbour. Lieutenant Williams, who was to be the United States entrant for the Schneider Trophy contest, is seen and heard trying out his seaplane, “Mercury,” which was designed to do 400 miles per hour, but which was withdrawn a few weeks before the contest. “ The Hole in the Wall ” rounds off a perfect evening’s entertainment. Its plot is the activities of a ring of criminals, who pose in polite society as spiritualistic mediums, gain valuable information, and then, in. other guises, proceed to blackmail their victims. It Is at all times exciting, mysterious and pleasingly original entertainment. It is a denunciation of those poseurs who bring opprobrium to bear on an accepted cult, and while developing this laudable theme, it weaves round it a woof of drama and romance. Claudette Colbert, the French actress who has been for some time on the New York stage, makes her movie and talkie debut in “ The Hole in the Wall,” and Edward G. Robinson, who is at once the hero and the villain, plays opposite her. The third major part is played by David Newall. The picture is filled with exciting incidents, is threaded with intrigue and duplicity, and in an ingenious manner extricates tself, as it were, from the dilemma fashioned for itself. That it is an all-talking drama adds materially to its attractions. It is a picture heartily recommended to all seekers of superior film fare. The box plans are at The Bristol Piano Company, where seats should be reserved.