AMUSEMENTS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20095, 26 November 1930, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS.

—— THEATRE ROYAL, "A LP'S BUTT OX." CiigO". audicncco, that, arrive ab t- 110 Theatre Rcysil prepared for the beat, and go away obviously oatisfied, aro demonatratir-g this* week that "Alfe Button" is a triumph for tho British talking picture industry. To succeed nowadays a picture mu3* be really good, and success can always be gauged by box office returns. The story of tbe film needs no explanation, for, mi tho tilfo indicates, it concerns a button. But the button is made out of a piece of the orijfiaaJ Aladdin's lamp, and ensuing complications are necessarily riotous. Tho production of the picture is very good, and ia perhaps its msst notable feature. Attention is jjivon to impressionistic detail, and the slight rawntJ-j discernible in previous British fi!n3S _ , h " fl heen eradicated. Among tbe players, Tubay Ealin, who t&ked tho part of Alf» aciiTevoa distinction. "THE UOGDE SONG/*

Sor." iLi.fj coiour, high adventure and romance, are all blended into tho lirsb motion X>icturo starring * famous opera singer. Lawrence Tibbett, the world's greatest operatic baritone, birda fair al*o to become one of the world's greatest movie etare, ao & rosuJt of "Tht> Koguo Song/' Mctro-Goldwyn-Mayer's musical drama, opening at tue Theatre Royal on Saturday nosLt. Filmed entirely in colour, directed by Lionel Barrymore, the new picture combined an <;n£ro3o- - plot with spectacle and g-orgeous mu3j.c, aIT woven into a romance of love and &d----vfuture And though the songa aro an integral part of the poignant drama, the story itself is a great motion picture play. Tibbett, a splendid actor as well as a great singer, ia compolling in the role of the slrging bandit chief of tho Caucasus. Catherine Dale Owen makes a very beautiful heroics. For comedy relief, Laurel and Hardy supply assorted laughs throaghout th* picture. Albertina Kasch's colourful ballet, with a hundred beautiful girls, is an added spectacular detail. The plana oper. at The Bristol tomorrow.