ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 241, 10 September 1929, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

THEATRE DE LUXE. A DELIGHTFUL COMEDY-DItAMA. When the producers chose Eden Pliilpotts’s novel, “Widecombe Fair,” for picturisation, it enabled them to give the public intimate peeps at glorious Devon, with its magnificent scenery, so dear to every Britisher who has wandered overseas. The picture will be finally presented at the Theatre de Luxe, this evening, and no doubt many with overseas associations will bo taken back to scenes they know so well. The hunting scene with the South Devon hounds, Widecombe Fair, and all the characters essential, ffiave been faithfully depicted. The box plan is on view at the Centra] Booking Office, ’phone 7178, until 5 p.rn. and thereafter at the theatre, ’phone 5050. “THE VIKING.” The greatest advance in colour photography that the screen has so far achieved will be shown at the Theatre de Luxe tomorrow night, when Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s teclmicolour film, “The Viking,’ will be screened. In “The Viking’ ’the colours of every scene are shown as they actually appear in nature. They blond with each other, and their background in perfect harmony. The cast is an exceptional one, and includes Donald Crisp, Lo Roy Mason, Pauline Starke, and others who do much to add to the unique entertainment of this exceedingly beautiful film. AT THE PALACE. NEW 100 PER CENT. TALKIE. “The Home Towncrs” is a play that has enjoyed a great deal of success abroad, but it was left for Warner Bros, to make it into the first-class all-talking hit that it has proven to be, as was seen at its presentation at the Palace Theatre last night. No\V that the “talkies” are with us, in the future movie patrons are going to see and hear successful stage-plays on the _ screen. The “Home Towncrs” is just one instance of tho tremendous future that lies ahead of the talking picture. Robert McWade, one of tho stars of this_ Warner Bros, “alltalkie,” after hearing himself speak via tho Vitaphone, expressed himself marvellously pleased at the comparatively new invention. The “talkies” are going to give tho stage stars some wonderful chances in the future,” says McWade, “and at the same time they are going to rnako oven bigger reputations for present movie stars who are able to, adapt themselves to the new order of production.” “Tho Homo Towncrs” boasts an excellent cast of both stage and screen players, and Richard Bennett, Doris Kenyon, Robert Edcson and Gladys Brockwell are included in tho cast, besides McWade. KOSY THEATRE. “ALLEY CAT” AND “GUARDIANS OF THE WILD.” These fine features will be shown at tho Kosy finally to-night. “The Alley Cat” contains some of the most realistic scenes of East End life that have yet been screened, including those of Petticoat Lane and around by the London docks. These scenes have been transferred to the screen with a startling realism, and form an ideal background for the exploits of Mabel Poulton, who, as the “Alley Cat,” is a convertible spitfire of the slums, and by dint of her irrespressible irresponsibility forces her way into the chorus of an important musical comedy. She ultimately becomes the star, and her Cockney cleverness saves her lover from the charge of murder. In the portrayal of this drama Mabel Poulton is supported by Clifford McLaglen, Jack Trevor, Shayle Gardner and Marie Ault. In addition, Rex, the king of wild horses, is seen in an exciting story of the we6t entitled “Guardians of tho Wild.”