AMUSEMENTS.

Wairarapa Age, 16 March 1929, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS.

COSY THEATRE “Rod Lips,” Universal’s sparkling (story of college life, is the attraction <at the Cosy Theatre to-night. Charles Rogers and Marian Nixon ano the costarring team. This is the first appearance together of the youthful film ’jeouple and they make an admirable '•pair of lovers. Their romance in this ivimful comedy has been calleu a “song ■of youth.” Miss Nixon plays the role ■'of a carmined flapper, her first part in •'which she is not a “nice girl.” Rogers ’is an unsophisticated college freshman. but told by Director Melville -Brown with understanding. He pori t rays youth as few directors have been ’table to do, it is said. He makes it . vivid and real and yet he never exJaggcrates. A cast of Hoflyiyood bcau’/'ies and juveniles supports Rogers and Miss Nixon. Hayden Stevenson, coach ijof the “Collegians” is again a coach in “Red Lips.” He is the only memopt of tflie cast who is more than = twenty-five. On the same programme - is another chapter of the ever amusing Collegian series starring Georfe Lewis 'and Dorothy Gulliver. J OPERA HOUSE i 1 Miss Marion Douglas, of Manly s (formerly known as Ena Gregory;, aps pears in • ‘ The Bushranger, ’ ’ the latest 1 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer starring vehio ole for Tim McCoy, which will be shown at the Opera House for to-night c only. On the same programme is a d Pox feature, entitled. ‘•' The Great y Well. ” “ The Bushranger ” is a colk ourful story of a young Englishman t- who suffered for his brother’s crime, e- being traiusnorteCt to- Van Dieman’s [>- Land, and afterwards escaping to bea,- come the most notorious bushranger on c- the highways of BcJlarat. * The stirrn.g drama,, thrills, romance and love are mhet amidst the scented gum. trees of le Australia with- creditable fidelity. Dale jl, Austin, “Miss New Zealand, 1927,” jf and Frank Baker, also appear in the it cast of this unique and much-discuss-d. ed picture. “The Great Well” is a il very pleasing story of the love of two di mien, for rhe one girl. One of the men proposes to the girl but wants it to be ;c kept secret a,s he has not a penny The ;e girl accuses him of caring more for a money than for her and she leaves him s. and meets another man who ishe ven- -- tually marries. Her former suitor rer. turns and complications arise and he ). shoots 'himself and the husband, is tried f for murder. His ! Wife in order to save e him tells a lie, but her sister tells the o husband the truth and* the story is - brought to a fine close. Also on the t programme is another exciting episode of “The Trail of the Tiger.”

3 “UNCLE TOM’S CABIN” » Harrv Pollard, who directed the J £400,000 Universal production of ; “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” which will open at the Cosy Theatre next Tuesday played* iherole of Uncle Tom himself more than thirteen years ago. 4-t that time he had just become acquainted with the motion picture industry, and little did he dream that he would, in ' the years to direct one of the most tremendous of screen epics. A 1 cast comprised of stars was selected to 'play the characters made familiar to (everyone by. the immortal Harriet [Beecher Stowe novel from which the ’picture was adapted. Five thousand • people in all took part in the making k of the film. Included in the cast are ’ Margarita Fischer, Arhtur Edmund Carew, John Roche, Gertrude Astor, ’Lucien Littlefield, George Siegmann, "Mona Ray, Virginia Grey.