AMUSEMENTS

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 59, Issue 54, 4 April 1930, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

HASTINGS PICTURE THEATRES. Pals, the kind that stick togetlier thi'ough thick and thin, so devoted that they are called the three lnusketeers. Three such friends, an En^lishman, a Frencliman and an Amerlcan, were resting in a French hospital. Georgie, a nurse, was more than kind to them. When her lover, 6n leave, failed to put in an appearance, the three friends decided to put on a party to 4ielp Georgie forget. In a crowded restaurant in Paris is staged one of the gayest festivals of song and music that that city of bright lights ever heard. Her lover comes back, but only after Georgie had been kidnapped. The above is a part of the story of "Tlie Battle of Paris," the all-talking and singing Paramount picture at the Cosy Theatre. Gertrude Lawrance. the popular musical comedy star, takes the lead, ably supported hy a fine cast headed by Charles Ruggles. Miss Lawrence sings a number of popular airs of years gone by, as well as seveial new songs written especiallyy for ber.

AT THE MUNICIPAL. A famous comedy team — that of William Austin, enactor of Britisfi comedy parts, and George Marion, jnr"., the man who wiites the characterisations, is reunited for another dialogue production — Paramount's super-pep picture, "Sweetie," which is at the Municipal Theatre till tomorrow. Austin pla.vs the part oi Percy (Pussy) Willow, professoi cf English in the Pelham school for boys, the central locale of the" plot for this song-and-dance-and-dialogue extravaganza. The success of William Austin in his roles with Marion's English comic titles was partlv responsible for his signing of a long term contract as a Paramount featured player two years ago. He has had lengthy experience in sinular parts o.i tbe legitimate stage. Nancy Carroll, Paramount's read-headed cutie, has the title role in "Sweetie." She plays the chorus girl who inherits a boys' school. - Jack Oakie, the wisecrackiug Elmer Knne of "East Conipany" fame, and Helen Kane, the bigeyed babe with the infant voice, are featured with Miss Carroll. There. are n nuhiher of original songs featured in the production, the wovk of Richard A. Whiting. famous compnser, nf pnp-' ular inelorlies.