ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 250, 20 September 1929, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

THEATRE DE LUXE. “THE WARE CASE.” A faithful replica of ono of the courts at the Central Criminal Courts, Old Bailey, the most noted of Britain’s courts of justice, was erected in the studio to provide the most perfect setting for tho trial scenes in First National’s picture “The Ware Case,” the final presentation of which will take place at the Theatre de Luxe to-night. Some of tho strongest moments of the play occur in this aourt. Tho members of tho audience find themselves entirely puzzled by the unravelling of tho plot. The character whom they most strongly suspect for a time is cleared .by the jury. The identity of the culprit is not disclosed until the murderer himself, intoxicated, reveals his secret to his wife. Stewart Rome and Betty Carter, two of the most popular of younger players of stage and screen, have the leads. The box plan is available at the Central Booking Office, Broadway, ’phone 7178, until 5 p.m. and thereafter at the theatre, ’phone 5050. “CRAZY MAZIE.” It is seldom that one has the pleasure of seeing a new star who seems so certain of world-wide success as Lilian Harvey. This young dancer is extremoly attractive, lias personality, brains and acting ability as will ho seen in “Crazy Mazie,” coming to the Theatre do Luxe at 2 p.m. tomorrow. ROSY THEATRE. GREAT DOUBLE STAR PROGRAMME The programme now being shown at the ICosy will be screened finally to-night. In “Tlie Overland Telegraph” Tim AlcCoy plays the leading part. This film has as its story the early life of the first American 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 western States, is vividly shown, together with the work of Confederate influences inciting the Indians to battle tho onward march of progress. One of the most absorbing sea pictures that lias appeared in recent years, “The Far Call” prosents for the first time the activities of fur poachers in the Pribilof Islands of tho North Pacific, where millions of fur-seal have their breeding grounds. Charles Alorton and Leila Hyams head the cast. As an added attraction the well-known comedians, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, appear in their latest arid best comedy, “Double Whoopee.” This is really a first-class programme and one tliat should not he missed.

THE PALACE TALKIES. FINAL NIGHT OF “COHENS AND KELLYS.” “The. Cohens and Kellys in Atlantic City,” latest of laugh epics of the Cohen and Kelly business partnership, is to bo finally presented at the Palace Talkies tonight. The farce is reported to be a riotous comedy from start to finish and even funnier than the previous Universal CohenKelly numbers. In the cast are such outstanding comedy players as George Sidney, Vera Gordon, Mack Swain, and Kate Price Others in tlie company are Cornelius Keefe, Nora Lane, Virginia Sale and Tom Kennedy. “SHOW BOAT” TO-MORROW. With virtually every large motion picture company in tlie industry bidding, Universal Pictures Corporation was t.» one which obtained the motion picture rights to Edna Ferbcr’s best-selling novel, “Show Boat.” Made into a million dollar super-talking picture, “Show Boat” will he screened at tho Palace Theatre starting at 2 p.m., to-morrow, with Laura La Plante and Joseph Scliiidkraut in the roles of the great lovers, Magnolia Hawks and Gaylord Ravenal, a show boat star and a Mississippi river gambler, respectively. Universal considers that it bought the motion picture rights at a bargain lor £14,000. Those rights were bought before the book had reached tho peak of its sensational selling record and before Florenz Ziegfeld had purchased it and made it into a musical extravaganza. The price is considered small when it is remembered that Universal paid £50,000 for the rights to “Broadway” and other companies have paid as high for the screen and talking picture rights of other successful plays. Harry Pollard directed "Show Boat,” while the supporting cast includes Otis Harlan, Alma Rubens, Emily Fitzroy, Eliso Bartlett, Neojy Edwards, Jane La Verne, Blanche Craig, Theodore Lorch and many others. Helen Morgan, Jules Bledsoo, Aunt Jemina and the Plantation Singers, from the Ziegfeld show, appear in songs and choruses.