ENTERTAINMENTS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 26 January 1927, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

COSY THEATRE. A notable cast of screen and stage payers assembled for the proper interpretation of “TJie Song and Dance Man,” the cinema version of George M. Cohan’s distinguished Broadway comedy .success. Tom Moore, whose Irish smile and finished acting have won him an enviable following, portrays the title role of “Happy” Farrell, the generous, egotistical vaudcvillian, whose trials, tribulations and triumphs provide most of the pathos and humour in this sentimental story of back-stage life. This is the role made famous by Mr Cohan in the stage version. Bessie Love, the diminutive film favourite and the screen’s foremost exponent of “The Charleston,” is happily cast as the small-time performer who eventually wins fame and fortune in the musical comedy field. Harrison Ford, popular leading man, is the thiyd feature, member of the east, wild falls in love with Miss Love and succeeds in persuading her that home and children are to be preferred to the glitter and tinsel of a bright lights career. OPERA HOUSE“SteIIa Dallas,” 1 lx* Henry King production which comes to the Opera. House to night, deals with the romance of human frailty. Its action revolves around a. central character, “Stella,” whose love-life offers an eventual romance fired by her zest for the better things of life, and. tinged with the pathos of her helpless errors. In locale, this production, sponsored by Samuel Goldwyn for United Artists Corporation, searches out the typical American homes in town and countr v, faithfully reproducing those spots of beauty and interest visualised in the novel. Tu theme, Ihe screen version, of Olivo Higgins Troutyis “host seller,” graphically portrays Stella, played by Belle Bennett, a mill worker in a. small town whoso heart longs for romance. She is attracted to Stephen Dallas, a young man also employed in the mill but who comes from a more refined social sphere. They fall in love, are 'married and their union is blessed by a strango and beautiful child, Laurel, played by Lois Moran. Not realising ’ how tongues wag, Stella, in her lighthearted way, starts a harmless flirtation with Ed. Munn, a rather loud and vulgar riding master, played by Jean Hcrsholt, <the .screen’s character actor.