ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 256, 27 September 1929, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

THEATRE DE LUXE. A WILLIAM HAINES COMEDY. “A Man’s Man” enables William Haines to register the finest dramatic work of his career, and will please his legion of admirers for the cross section of Hollywood life it reveals, including a memorable Hollywood party and the different types of menace that prey on tho community. With C’ruze directing and Josephine Dunn opposite Haines, the same successful combination that made “Excess Baggage,” is aguin brought together. “A Man’s Man” will conclude its season at the Theatre de Luxe this evening. Seats can be reserved at the Central Booking Office, ’phono 7178. until 5 p.m. and thereafter at the theatre, ’phone 5050. “THE MANXMAN.”

One of the latest newcomers to New Zealand screens is Anny Ondra, the pretty Czccho-Slovakian actress, who has been appearing in several pictures in the last few months, and who will be seen at 2 p.m. to-morrow, at tho Theatre de Luxe, oppsite Carl Brisson, in the picture version of Sir Hall Caine’s famous novel “The Manxman.” Although this charming young star has appoared in pictures on the Continent many times, it was not until she signed up to appear in English pictures that she became well known to tho world. THE PALACE TALKIES. LAST NIGHT OF “SHOW BOAT.” The very popular Universal talking and singing production “Show Bioat” closes its successful Palace season this, evening. “IN OLD ARIZONA”—ALL TALKIE-TO-MORROW. The long awaited Fox movietone, “In Old Arizona,” will have its premiere at the Palace Theatre to-morrow. “In Old Arizona” lias aroused the keenest interest and its showing bore is epochal, for it is the first feature length all-talking film drama to be made by the Fox Movietone studios, the organisation which pioneered talking pictures. The cast of more than a score of the leading players in filmland which presents this romantic story of tho old south-west is headed by Edmund Lowe, Dorothy Burgess and Warner Baxter, all long accredited stars, and the supporting cast also includes stars or featured players of fame. Every person in the large cast is seen and heard in the evolution of this tremendous drama of “The Cisco Kid,” a notorious bandit who roamed the southwest. In the progress of the story a young Irish sergeant, ordered to capture the bandit, falls in love with the bandit’s sweetheart, plots with the girl to capture the “Cisco Kid,” and is overheard by the object of his search. What happens will thrill the most blase picture lover. “In Old Arizona” has been called “The Covered Wagon of Talking Pictures,” and it merits the title. Raoul Walsh, of “What Price Glory” fame, and Irving Cummings, who directed “Dressed to Kill” and “Romance of the Underworld,” directed it.

KOSY THEATRE. “SEVEN FOOTPRINTS TO SATAN.” “Seven Footprints to Satan,” the mystery picture now being shown at tho Kosy Theatre, will bo screened finally to-night. Some of the scenes are really wonderful, but weird, especially the chamber of horrors. Like a kaleidoscopic version of a modern Arabian Nights dream, this film keeps the interest and thrills going to tho very end, with a scries of exciting situations based on the experiences of a young couple who are kidnapped and taken to a mysterious house occupied by “Satan” and his retinue of servitors and etrangc associates. Thelma Todd and Creighton Halo play tho young lovers. In addition Rex Bell is seen in a western thriller entitled “The Girl Shy Cowboy.” The story concerns a group of schoolgirls who go west on an expedition in search of tho remains of prehistoric animals. Rex Bell and his two pals are engaged as guides for the party. Bell is a bashful cowboy until provoked to save the party from a plot when he acts in a virile manner.