ENTERTAINMENTS.

Waikato Times, Volume 104, Issue 17493, 29 August 1928, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS.

STRAND & FRANKTON THEATRES. Never have the comic relations between the Irish and Jewish people been put on the screen with such success, it is said, as in “The Cohens and Kellys in Paris,” the Universal Special opening at the above theatres to-night. II packs a laugh in every foot of film. George Sidney and J. Parrel MacDonald head the cast, while Vera Gordon, Kate Price, Charles Delaney, Sue Carol and Gertrude Aslor are in the supporting company. The supporting picture, “The College Widow,” is a Warner Bros.’ production starring Dolores Costello. This is a brilliant screen revival of George Ado’s famous football comedy and numbers in its cast, William Collier, Jr., Anders Randolf, Douglas Gerrard, Charles Hill Mailes, Robert Ryan, Sumner Getchel, Big Boy Williams, Grace Gordon and Jess Hibbs. Archie L.’ Mayo directed. Manv football stars figure in the film. It is" the most vividly human college play ever written. THEATRE ROYAL. In Mctro-Goldwyn-Maycr’s colourful production, “The Merry Widow showing for the last time to-night at the Theatre Royal, George Fawcett, the well-known screen character actor, plays his first monarch role, that of the King of Monteblanco, a mythical country, supposed to be in the heart of the Balkans. This is one or the very finest performances Fawcett. has given and is said to even better his portrayal of ‘‘Pastor Voss in “Flesh and the Devil. Ihe Merry Widow” which was adapted from the famous stage success of the same name depicts intriguing romance of a chorus girl who inherited a fortune The leading role of “Prince Danilo” P taken W John Gilbert, and the supporting cast includes Mae Murray. Tullv Marshall and Roy DArcj, COMMENCING ON THURSDAY. Described not as a picture of sensational happenings, but as a serious treatment of a serious subjccL the n)irilonlav “Are \ou Fit ,0 Marry, v- H ,e ‘presented for' the first tune a 1 the Theatre Royal on Thursday c -e, g. ‘‘Are You Fit to Marry?” is a film for all thinking men and women h whom purity is truth and truth is u,. t It' san earnest story dealing in 1 ail outspoken way with the vital topic or racial progress, which afr a ire cl 1 v every person in Lhe land SV Ssl the hard-headed politic an—in fact everyone who wishes , see the world of the future comnosert of a happy, healthy population. Out of this vital material Uie authors inve made a story "hose naked truths grip the heart with amazing forcefulncss. On the same programme British production entitled ‘The Flight Commander, featuring •sir \lan Gobham, will be presented This feature is heralded as one of Britain’s host pictures.