CURRENT ATTRACTIONS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 144, 20 June 1931, Page 6 (Supplement)

CURRENT ATTRACTIONS

REGENT—“City Lights,” starring Charlie Chaplin, with Virginia Cherrill opposite him, is the current feature. “Brothers,” with Bert Lytell, is coming on Monday. The Wednesday change will be to “The Man from Bia kney’s.” John Barrymore is the principal actor. Winnie Lightner portrays the "central figure m “She Couldn’t Say No,” coming next Saturday. THE DUCHESS—“Canaries Sometimes Sing,” the English Tom Walls comedy, is now showing. Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell are together in “Happy Days,” commencing ou Wednesday. The change for Friday will be the Edgar Wallace play, “The Squeaker.” GRAND— Evelyn Brent is featured in “Madonna of the Streets,” which is the present attraction. Monte Blue and Lupe Velez are coming in “Tiger Rose,” to commence on Wednesday, while “Evidence’ ’ will be shown next Saturday. Pauline Frederick is the girl and William Courtenay, Conway Tearle and Lowell Sherman the lovers. MAJESTIC— Charles Farrell and Maureen O’Sullivan are the stars of “The Princess and the Plumber,” now showing. “Men Cail it Love” comes on Wednesday. Adolphe Menjou and Leila Hyams aro featured. “New Moon,” with Lawrence Tibbett and Grace Moore, is coming soon.

Lee Garmes, exponent of low-key lighting for the motion picture screen and agreed upon by critics and technicians alike to be one of the foremost camera artists of the day, photographed “City Streets” for Paramount. Gary Cooper and Sylvia Sidney are co-starred in the film, and Paul Lukas, Guy Kibbee, William Boyd and Wynne Gibson are the chief supporting players.

Mitzi Green is proud. Her cat, Tinker,. is the mother of five black and white kittens. Tinker is tho cat that accompanies Mitzi on all vacation and personal appearance trips.

Filming has started in Hollywood on “Confessions of a Co-Ed,” a Paramount production in which Phillips Holmes and Sylvia Sidney play the leads. Max Marcin and Dudley Murphy are co-directing the film, with Norman Foster, Frances Dee, Jean Arthur and Claire Dodd in featured supporting roles. The story is from the diary of an anonymous feminine university student.

Harry Beresford, for twenty years a New York stage star, recently turned down an offer to return to the stage in order to accept the role of Mr. Platt in Paramount’s “Up Pops the Devil.” He joined a cast consisting of Skeets Gallagher, Stuart Erwin, Carole Lombard, Lilyan Tashman and Norman Foster. Edward Sutherland directed from the play by Albert Rackett and Frances Goodrich.

Eugene Pallette wears the war feathers and paint of a prairie Indian in “Dudo Ranch,” Paramount’s comedy based on Milton Krim’s novel, iu which Jack Oakie heads the cast. The recently completed film is described as a tra vesty on every western picture ever produced. Others sharing comedy honours are Stuart Erwin, Mitzi Green, and June Collyer.

Jock Cock, a famous soccer player, plays the role of Jim Blake, an expert centre-forward, bought for a transfer fee of £5OOO in “The Great Game,” Gaumont’s soccer talkie. He has played for Plymouth Argyle and Chelsea clubs, and is at the present moment with the Millwall F.C. He has a splendid baritone voice, and has filled engagements at music halls and concerts. “The Great Game” is his first talkie. In this film he also sings a little. The audience spends an exciting time above and around the field during the Wembley Cup final, and with the exception of young John Batten, the talented New Zealander, who plays one of the leading roles, all the players on the field arc professionals, taken from some of the most famous clubs in England.

Will Rodgers will have worthy acting competition when he begins work in George Ade’s comedy, “Cure for the Blues.” Lucien Littlefield, one of the screen’s outstanding actors, will play one of the principal parts in the Rodgers film. Frank Borzage will direct with Fifi Dorsay, John T. Murray, Donold Dillaway, C. Henry Gordon and Lucile Browne in tho supporting cast.

Raoul Walsh continues to raid the ranks of Hollywood players for his newest Flagg and Quirt adventure romance, “Women of All Nations.” Before the production is completed, scores of prominent screen artists will have contributed to the fun and suspense of the picture which features Victor McLnglen, Edmund Lowe. Greta Nissen and El Brendel. Marjorie White, Fifi Dorsay, Marion Lessing. Ruth Warren, Nat*Pendleton and T. R'oy Barnes are the newest additions to the cast.

One of tho latest innovations—the divorce party —makes its debut on the screen in “Men Call It Love.” Direcfor Edgar Selwyn has injected a spectacular divorce party by way of introducing his central characters. The divorce party is not purely a fictional occasion, one having taken place recently with several hundred guests in attendance. After a particularly charming evening, the guests wore startled to hear their hosts announce a forthcom-

Still another important role has been assigned Marguerite Churchill, heroine of “The Big Trail.” With her work in “Hoodlum,” with Spencer Tracy., scarcely completed, she has been assign-' ml one of the leading parts in “Over The Hill,” adapted from Will Carleton’s famous poem. Winfield Sheehan, vice-president and general manager of Fox Films, has decided to give this pic tore the privileges of all tho organiza tion’s resources in its making. Cecilia Loftus will play the role, of the mother and Henry King will direct. Beryl Mercer, whose work as the foster mother in “Common Clay,” and as the nurse, in “East Lynne” has placed her in the first rank of character actresses. will plav tho part of a landlady in Elissa Landi’s second Fox Movietone picture, not yet titled. The role is of first importance, according to the codirectors, Kenneth Mac Kenna and Wil liam Cameron Menzies. Lewis Stone and Pau! Cavanaugh have other principal parts. Kate McLaurin is the au’.hor and John Consid* ic Jr. is associate producer. Miss Landi’s first American film performance was in “Body and Soul,” opposite Charles Farrell,

ing divorce, kissing each other a fond farewell before the guests could regain sufficient composure to realize the novelty of tho situation. Adolphe Menjou, Leila Hyams, Norman Foster and Mary Ducan play the principal roles in “Men Call It Love.”

Jack Holt was born iu Virginia. When his father, a preacher, was called to a New York parish, Jack attended Trinity Prep. Later he went to Virginia Military Institute. His experience includes the careers of civil engineer, copper mining, prospector, government mail carrier, cow-puncher, stock actor, and screen star —all crowded into one lifetime. He made his first screen appearance in “Salomy Jane,” in which he rode a horse over a 3,5 foot cliff, lit-

erally leaping into filmdom. His latest portrayal is the role of a notorious gangster in tho Columbia picture, “The Last Parade.” Holt’s most notable performances were in “Victor,” “Held by the Enemy,” “On the High Seas,” “The Cheat,” “Don’t Call it Love,” “Hell’s Island.” “Submarine.” and “ Flight.