“THE COCK-EYED WORLD.”

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 115, 17 May 1930, Page 3 (Supplement)

“THE COCK-EYED WORLD.”

THE WANGANUI SEASON. Raoul Walsh’s most recent directorial effort, “The Cock-Eyed World,” an all talking Fox Movietone picture, offers first rate entertainment with special vocal and instrumental specialities. This picture emphasises Walsh ’s versatility. In fact, we believe it to be one of the season’s outstanding productions. It's keynote is the continual battle between Flagg and Quirt of “What Price Glory” fame. Theii love affairs provoke a series of laughs, in fact, some of the situations were so amusing that the audience howled. There is a consistent balance of pathos and well-sus-tained tensely human situations. It’s Wanganui season commences at The Grand Theatre next Monday where it will play far an extended season. We advise you to see it for it is one entertaining production one should not miss. Laurence Stallings and Maxwell Anderson, who co-authored “What Price Glory,” are responsible for this picture. Billy K. Wells scored a triumph with the dialogue he wrote. And of course our old frieids Vic. McLaglcn and E. Lowe arc Flagg and Quirt respectively. We enjoyed them more in this production than we did in “Glory” because wo hear everything that this colourful pair of “leathernecks” say about, each other, and just leave it to a pair of hard-boiled marines to wisecrack. Sparkling Lily Damita is the charmer who intrigues them in the tropics; Lelia Karnelly makes life sweet for them in Russia; and Jean Barry has the boys lighting over her in Coney Island.

“The Golden Calf,” from a Liberty Magazine story by Aaron Davis, features Sue Carol, El Brendel, Jack Mullin.’l. Marjorie White, and Richard Keene. “Such Men are Dangerous,” Elinor Glyn’s first talking picture, which appeared in Cosmopolitan Magazine, is in production. Warner Baxter plays the role of a man who disappears from a 'plane flying over the English Channel. Catherine Dale Owen appears as his wife. “The Pig Party” melody drama directed by John Blystone, has in its cast, Marjorie White, Sue Carol, Dixie [ Lee, Richard Koene, Walter Catlett, and Charles Judels. ‘•‘Happy Days,’ an all talking, singing, dancing film, features most of the stars and leading players at Fox Movietone City in a melody of minstrelsy. Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Marjorie White, Will Rogers, Warner Baxter. Victor McLaglcn, Edmund Lowe, El Brendel, Fifi Dorsay, and Flo Bert are only a few of the principals. In addition to the Fox players, the cast boasts Ann Pennington, James Corbett, George Olsen and his music.