AMUSEMENTS

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 59, Issue 50, 31 March 1930, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

HASTINGS PICTURE THEATRES.

PROGRAMMES FOR TO-NIGHT. Since the movies ' went a-talldng there havecbeen a thousand and one sound effects brought to the screey,, ,but it reniained for Allan Dwan, Fox director, to literally bring together the first and last words in sound reproduction. In the all talking Fox Movietone production of "Frozen Justice," at the Cosy de Luxe, Saturday, starrmg Lenore Ulric, famous emotional actress of the stage, Dwan's first seqnence : revealed the bizajre sight of one of the first Edison gramophcnes standing but a few feet from the newest of Movietone "cameras. The Edison madhine, dated 1896, is tlie chief diversion of Louis Wolhenn. Throughout ■jthe beginning of the picture, which is the primal romance of a half-caste Eskimo belle and a sea gomg Don 'Juan, Wolheim wheedles squeaky and tinkling tunes from the Tjttle inachine with its hand painted horn. The records— cylindrical of course — wheeze out 'the hits of the Mauve Decade and help Wolheim, lrcked' in the Arctic ice, to while away the time. Tliere will be a matinee to-morrow at 2.30 p m. AT THE MUNICIPAL. The screen adaptation of the famous Owen Davis' stage sUccess, "The Donovan Affair," a Colurabia production. 1' is a reaJ detective story with a double murder mystejy which is solved by the keen work of Inspector Killian, played >oy Jack Holt. This is Holt's first detective role in his long career upon the screeil. Gthers in the cast include Dorothy Revier, William Collier, junr., Fred Ivelsey, Jolin Roche and Agnes Ayres. For sheer entertaininent nnd a lot of thrills and excitement, "The Donovan Affdir" leaves nothmg to be desired and will be screened at the Municipal Theatre to-night and tomorrow niglit otily.