AMUSEMENTS AND MEETINGS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20110, 31 March 1928, Page 11

AMUSEMENTS AND MEETINGS

THE MAJESTIC. “Publicity Madness,” a hilarious satire on modern business, produced by Fox Films, with Edmund Lowe and Lois Moran co-starred in the featured roles, will open at the Majestic Theatre for a three day run, beginning to-day. According to all who have seen this production it is made up of five reels of laughs with a delightful romance and a variety of thrills thrown in for good measure. The situations in which the grandiloquent hero finds himself are especially funny and the unusual ending puts him in complete control of the business. The story deals wtih a fresh, garrulous, soap salesman, whose ego is only surpassed by the daring of his advertising schemes. After being tfrom one concern he worms his way into another old-fashioned competitor, and from then on things begin to move swiftly and humorously. The romance in the picture has to do with his love for the daughter of the president of the second concern, the thrills are connected with a record-breaking flight to the Philippines, which is part of his advertising scheme. Edmund Lowe plays Pete King, the salesman, and Lois Moran is Violet Henley. Others in the cast are Arthur Housman as a running representative of a credit clothing house, E. J. Ratcliffe as “Uncle” Elinor Henly, old-fashioned owner of the Henly Soap Company. James Gordon, as his competitor. Bryon Munson as Violet’s other suitor, and, Norman Peek as Wilburn, the high brow office boy.

“Private Izzy Murphy,” which comes on the same programme, deals with an East Side Jew boy in NewYork, who enlists with “The Fighting 69th,” the Irish regiment that gained war fame as the 165th Infantry in the 42nd Division. The story plays a new variation on the Irish-American-Jewish theme, that swept the country in “Abie’s Irish Rose.” George Jessel, Patsy Ruth Miller, Vera Gordon and Nat Carr are in the cast.

As an added attraction, Billy Hart, the radio favourite, has been retained, and will introduce the very latest songs, at the piano.

THE DUCHESS THEATRE, ARAMOHO. “Frisco Sally Levy,” Metro-Gold-wyn-Maycr’s new picture, featuring the vivacious Sally O’Neil, which comes to the Duchess Theatre at the matinee and evening performance today, is a brilliant comedy romance of family life in a big city. Its scenes arc laid in San Francisco. “Sally” is the storm-centre of a Jewish-Irish home—her fa’her being Jewish and her mother Irish. Two suitors appear for “Sally’s” hand, one a wealthy Jewish broker and the other an Irish traffic policeman. After thrilling intrigue, comedy, pathos and romance, the family solves its problem. Directed by William Bcaudine, and portrayed by an unusually brilliant east, including Charles Delaney, Roy D’Arcy, Kate Price and Tenon Holtz, “Frisco Sally Levy” is a delightfully entertaining picture. The supporting programme is good and includes a funny two-reel comedy, N.Z. Scenic and Pathc Newsreel.