AMUSEMENTS

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 59, Issue 121, 24 June 1930, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

HASTINGS PICTURE THEATRES. PROGRAMMES .FOR TO-NIGHT. Lily Damita, former idolised beauty of the European stage. • and . screen, in general and particularly lier native France, is gorgeous enough for any man to fight over, and two leathernecks are flghting over her a-plenty in her latest picture which is playing at the Cosy Theatre to immense business these- days. The two gentlemen irt question are happily married, but in makes no difference, for they are actors — and tliey play their roles with an unfeigued ardour. All of which means that Victor McLaglen and Edmund Lowe, who battled with each other through "What Price -Glory," are at it again, but more merry thail ever. in "The Cock Evecl lyorld," the all talker vrritten by Lawrence Stallings and Maxwell Anderson arid directed hy Raoul IValsh. rIhe dialogue was written hy B'illy K. IValsh. There is no uncertainty as to just what Lowe and McLaglen are saying to each in this picture, foo- their sentiments in "The Cock Eyed IVorld," a Fox Movietone production, are expressed distinctly and vigorously. AT THE MUNICIPAL; / "The Broadway Melody," which 'may propeiiy be calied the screen' s first musical drama, is an eye-filling, hearttugging, fascinating entertainment. Sound picture sceptics may go to see this picture, now playing at the Municipal Theatre, and be amazed. It is a revelation of what can be accomplished — a portent 'for ' the future. Tli.is Metro-Gol dwyn-Mayer all-talking film has all the acooutrements of a Broadway musical show. grouped ahout a gripping story, of back-stage life, fllled with comedy touches. Throughout the story are interspersed (as a natural part of the continunity) some of the most tuneful song numbers ever written for stage or screen. These are^-sung delightfully by Chades King, Broadway musical comedy star, Anita Page and Bessie Love, with a big revue chorus of sixty blondes, brunettes and redheadi to help out.