ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 247, 17 September 1929, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

THEATRE DE LUXE. “THE LOST PATROL.” “Tile Lost Patrol,” which concludes its season at the Thcatro do Luxe this evening, vividly portrays the indomitable courage and endurance of the average Britisher and his inherent sense of fair play and self-sacrifice. The individual characterisation is so pronounced that it gives strength to the drama, despite the fact that it is completely devoid of trimmings. It is a story of a sergeant and ten men of an English cavalry patrol who are lost in the desert and camp in the oasis. The oasis is sniped by Arabs, and slowly but surely each man meets death until only the sergeant remains. It is in watching the effect of the loneliness of each one of the soldiers, armed with iho knowledge of his pre-war occupation, that one can read not one, but ton human stories. “The Lost Patrol” has been brilliantly adapted from Philip MacDonald’s novel “Patrol” and features Cyril McLaglcn. The box plan is at the Central Booking Office. “THE WARE CASE.” A new crime and mystery film, “The Ware Case,” made by hirst National, will be tho attraction at the Theatre de Luxe, beginning to-morrow night. It boasts a cast of popular actors of both stage and screen headed by Stewart Rome and Betty Carter. KOSY THEATRE. TWO BIG FEATURES. Tho current prograrnmo at. the Kosy Theatre will bo sbown finally to-night. In “Peter Vernon's Silence” tho plot is not now, but the technical points aro different, and an excellent cast plays the famous murder trial scenes to perfection. As Peter Vernon, the man who suffers in silence, Rawdon Blandford gives a performance of great merit. Walter Hunt as the guilty individual, and Loretti). -May, in the part ot Marie Clayton, lend splendid support. _ The photographic standard of the production is excellent, some wondorful exterior “shots” having been secured. The snow-clad country around Kosciusko, and tho Blue Mountains district figure largely in the picture. In addition, the great Ufa Company again aro to the fore in a sensational Alpine feature entitled, “Peaks of Destiny.” This film might be called a triumph of tho producer and tho camera over the vastness of nature, for the whole setting was screened in the Swiss Alps, and there aro many thrilling and sensational scenes. THE PALACE TALKIES. “COHENS AND KELLYS IN ATLANTIC CITY.” The over-popular screen comedy team, Cohen and Kelly, have broken out into noise, dialogue, arguments and repartee, as will be heard here when “The Cohens and Kellys in Atlantic City” is shown at the Palace Theatre to-night. George Sidney is again the featured star in the latest of this laughable Universal series. Vera Gordon, Mack Swain and Kate Price play the other featured roles, while Nora Lane and Cornelius Keefe have the romantic roles. William J. Craft directed the picture, much of which actually was taken at Atlantic City. AH the principals are popular screen figures with long stage experience. Their dialogue is well delivered and their voices pleasing. Sidney especially remembered as a leading stage comedian of a decade and more ago, is in his element in talking pictures. The squabbles, of the business partners, Cohen and Kelly, and their wives make hilarious comedy unusually suited to talk-film presentation. In this picture they are in the bathing suit business. How they stage a £2OOO bathing beauty contest at Atlantic City against their will makes an interesting story, full of funny situations. “SHOW BOAT” ON SATURDAY. Spirituals, the folk songs of tho American negro, form the background of the music used in Universal’s super talking picture “Show Boat,” which comes to the Palace Theatre on Saturday. These songs aro developed from tho original songs and chants brought over from Africa by the negroes, and grow out of a fusing of their own rhythms with tho hymns of their white masters. Laura La Plante, Joseph Schildkraut and Utis Harlan are featured in this picture.