ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 249, 19 September 1929, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

THE PALACE TALKIES. COIIENS AND KELLYS IN ATLANTIC CITY.” A RIOT. The over-popular screen comedy team, Cohen and Kelly, have broken out into noise, dialogue, arguments and repartee, as will be heard when “The Cohens and Kellys in Atlantic City” is shown at the Palace Theatre again to-night. George Sidney is again the featured star in the latest ot this laughable Universal scries. 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. All 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 the American negro, form the background of the music used in Universal’s super talking picture “Show Boat,” which comes to the l’alaco Theatre on Saturday. These songs are developed from the original songs and chants brought over from Africa by the negroes, and grew out of a fusing of their own rhythms with the hymns of their white masters. Laura La Plante, Joseph Schildkraut and Otis Harlan are featured in this picture. The plans for a week’s season opened to-day at the Central Booking Office. THEATRE DE LUXE. ENGROSSING MYSTERY PLAY. Manning Haynes, one of the cleverest film directors, has scored a great triumph in the screen version of “The Ware Case,” which commenced its local season at the Theatre de Luxe last night. From the book by George Plcydell, this First National picture is one of the cleverest mystery stories ever screened. Sir Hubert Ware is universally popular, but underlying his pleasant exterior he has a callous nature. Lady Ware knows his failing. Hier brother, who /liven with them, has a fortune left to him by his father. Sir Hubert loses his money and is faced with penury. The _ young fellow quarrels with his sister and is later found drowned. Lady Ware is terrified, but finding a note from the boy is reassured. At the inquest marks are found on the throat of the lad. A verdict of, murder is returned. Later, Sir Hubert W are is arrested for the murder. At the request of his wife, Sir Michael Adye, a celebrated lawyer in love with her, takes up the defence. After an exciting trial, Sir Hubert is acquitted. On returning home he tells his wife the truth. The outcome is dramatic and provides a startling climax to the story. Seats may be reserved at the Central Boooking Office, Broadway, ’phone 7178, and at the theatre, ’phone 5050, after 5 p.m. KOSY THEATRE. GREAT DOUBLE STAR PROGRAMME The big house at the Kosy Theatre, last night, were thrilled with the programme that was screened. Colonel Tim McCoy is featured in a thrilling and exciting story, entitled “The Overland Telegraph.” This film takes for its theme one of the greatest events in American history the building of the first transcontinental telegraph. How this was constructed by linesmen working under an army guard, while at Washington Lincoln awaited its completion to get in touch with the westdrn States, is vividly shown, together with the work of Confederate influences inciting the Indians to battle the onward march of progress. One of the most absorbing sea pictures that has appeared in recent years, “The Far Call” presents for the first time the activities of fur poachers in the Pribilof Islands of the North Pacific, where millions of fur-seal have their breeding grounds. Charles Morton and Leila Hyams head the cast. As ail attraction the well-known comedians, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, appear in their latest and best comedy, “Double Whoopee.” This programme will be shown again to-night.