ENTERTAINMENTS

Waikato Independent, Volume XXX, Issue 2316, 27 March 1930, Page 5

ENTERTAINMENTS

"THE COCK-EYED WORLD." To-night and to-morrow (Friday) night the featured talkie production i 3, a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presentation, entitled "So This is College." With * Elliott Nugent, Eobert Montgomery and Sally Starr, this is a delightful comedy of college life. It has its love story with two pals who subsequently are rivals for the same girl. The supporting talkie shorts' make up a good programme. "Cock-eyed World" Season.

When "The Cock-eyed World,"' a ! story by Laurence Stallings and'Mai-* well Anderson, authors of that memor-* able production, "What Price Glory,**' was released in Yankee-land it created an unprecedented acclaim, so much sothat the Roxy Theatre, one of the outstanding talkie theatres in the States, - was besieged for the longest season on record. In the early part of this.thea-' tre's season the demand was so great' that in addition to the ordinary evening's showing special shows at raid-' night had to be given to prevent a mildriot on a number of occasions. Now "The Cock-eyed World" has come tO' this Dominion, and has stirred up parallel enthusiasm. The local, management being in the position to give Cambridge the best productions at the earliest possible moment, "The Cockeyed World" comes to Cambridge direct from a record season at The local season will open on Saturday' night and will continue until the following Friday. This production presents the fights and ' amorous adventures of two very hard-boiled marine ' sergeants (Victor McLaglen and Edmund Lowe), and they have been incorporated into a film which is full of the heartiest comedy, while the film is excellently produced. It has a cleverly maintained balance of pathos. It-* has tense situations well conceived and logically worked out, a wonderful variety of scenes ranging from snowy Russia to the tropics, and there exceptionally fine acting, particularly by McLaglen as Flagg. Lily Damita. plays the part of the marines' girl of the tropics; Leila Karnelly ,thoir Russian girl; and Jean Barry, their NewYork girl. Quelling an uprising in the tropics is one of the high-lights of the film, and shows the two marines at , their best. Their troubles over their loves also creates much hilarious com•edy. The whole production keeps one in laughter mood, and should make the same appeal to local audiences as it has' done everywhere also.