AMUSEMENTS.

Wairarapa Age, 5 July 1929, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS.

COSY THEATRE. How to free the man one loves from a loveless bethrothal of seventeen years standing is shown in “Get Your Man,” Paramount's latest starring vehicle for Clara Bow, which will be screened at the Cosy Theatre to-night. In the picture, Clare is a young American girl who has fallen in love with a French youth, Charles Rogers, who was engaged to another girl when five years of age, under the French custom in which parents choose the mates of their children. The efforts of Miss Bow to cause the breaking of this engagement, supply many of the clever situations with which the picture abounds. The plot carries one into a wax works museum, where the boy and girl fail to exit at the dosing hour, and are forced to spend the night together in a room surrounded by mechanical figures which walk, wave their arms, roll their eyes, brandish swords and even execute murders. Miss Bow is surrounded by a capable cast, including, besides Rogers, who last appeared with her in “Wings,” Josef Swickard, Josephine Dunn and Harvey Clarke. For reserves ring or call at Vare’s Music House. COMING TO-MORROW. “ALIAS JIMMY VALENTINE.” “Alias Jimmy Valentine,” William Haines’ new picture, coming to-morrow to the Cosy Theatre, disproves for once and all the old theory that a story loses dramatic strength when transposed from the stage to ithe screen. Haines plays Jimmy Valentine, a whimsical burglar who reforms for love of a girl, outwits a detective, and then, to save a. child locked in a safe, opens the strongbox while the detective watches, facing jail to save a life. Leila Hyams, Lionel Barrymore, Howard Hickman, Karl Dane and Tully Marshall are also in this wonderful picture. Box plans now open at Vare’s. OPERA HOUSE TO-NIGHT. Mack Sennett has turned from the slap-stick, for the time being at least, to offer a feature-length picture that ranks right along with ithe most brilliant dramatic and romantic works of the motion picture screen. “The GoodBye Kiss,” which is to be screened to-night only at the Opera House, is a wonderful tribute to the career of the man who developed so many able actors, directors and technicans in the motion picture profession. It combines melodrama, comedy, pathos and. 'suspense in a way that leaves nothing to be desired in the form of screen entertainment. It presents a former vaudeville star in a comedy role that is unusual. It gives us two new juveniles who are exceptionally clever and appealing. The istory deals with two boys, one of whom is a coward, but is regenerated through love for a gi.fl. Thrilling air scenes and an unusual and terrific explosion are among the incidents in the picture, through which a constant vein, of comedy relieves the more sombre moments. As a spectacle, “The Good-Bye Kists” is marvellous. As a comedy, it is a riot. As a love story, it has not been surpassed.