"INTERFERENCE" COMING TO GAIETY.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 215, 11 October 1929, Page 2

"INTERFERENCE" COMING TO GAIETY.

YYTlliam Powell, the suave villain of the screen, who has won wide popularity with his screen characterisations in Paramouxjt pictures, lias one of tlie best roles of his career in "Interference," a 1U0 per cent. all-talking picture, which commences its season of six liights and six matinees at the Gaiety De Luxe to-niorrow, Saturday afteruoon, at 2.30. Also in the cast with Powell are three other well known players, Clive Brook, Doris Kenyon and Evelyn Breut. "Interference" was originally presented as a play in London. It rau for two years and Aas tlien presented in New York, where it ran for nine months. It is a melodrania with an element of niystery that niakes it one of the most interesting stage dramas adapted to the screen dudng the present season. Powell, who essays the roje of Phillip Yroaze in the picture, first gained popular attention in the Paramount production, "Beau Geste." Previous to his appearance in motion ;pictures, liowever, he was popularly known 011 the stage, where he played in niany successful stage hits. Powell's portrayal in "Interference" is one that brings him the sympathy of the audience before tlie film is half through. Although one who had left a trail of broken. liearts, by a sensational and draniatic gesture, he safeguards the reputation • of the woman he loves and restorcs her liappiness. "Interference" lias four eentral cliaracters in - the- plot. Th ey . are - YVilliam Powell, Doris Kenyon," Clive "Brook and Evelyn Brent. Each artist has a role of equal importance. Powell essays tlie role of Phillip Voaze, a roue; Miss Kenyon that of the wife of two "hushands ; Miss Brent is the loving and evil one, and Clive Brook plays Sir Jobn Marley, fanious English surgeon. How Powell saves the reputation as well as the liappinesg of his wife, and ends the. evil machinatioiis of the revenging lover, serves to present one of the most interesting and unusual stories ever set to the screen. The combination of all-talking, allsinging featurettes is claimed to be the very finest yet presented to date, and includes the full Y7itaphone Symphony Orchestra in a magnificent rendering of "Poet and Peasant" overture. A heautiful nuniber will be seen in "Y7isions of Spain," featuring Lina Basquette, v^th the Vitaphone Symphony Orchestra and a cast of fifty players. Another of those favourite community -singing cartoons will be found in "Old Black Joe," by far funnier than' "Daisy Bell." "Tho Bishop's Candlesticks" is an interesting pfaylet founded on a fanious novel. A side-splitting comedy, "False Alarni Fire" features "the two singing boys, - Smitli and Dale, who won the hearts of Gaiety patrons in "Dear Teacher." The last of.this big six, "Blus Songs," will becorne axi instant. liit, the whole forming, what can easily be classed the finest all-talking programme ever presented to any audience.^ Seats for the dress cirrle can be obtained at Hyde's, while those for the orchestral stalls can be had at the .theatre.