THE PICTURE HOUSES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 26 November 1927, Page 10

THE PICTURE HOUSES.

MUNICIPAL. A real story of our much discussed “younger generation”—but one not a tale of flappers, cake-eaters or jazz parties—is coming to the Municipal Theatre to-night. Lois Weber, the screen’s only woman director, has given a new angle to this type of story and has an unusually well chosen and capable cast to enact her production. The leading role* are taken by Huntley Gordon and Billie Dove in this Universal-Jewel production, called “The Sensation Seekers.” “The real store of the modern girl,” said Miss Weber “has not been told on the screen, instead, she has been represented simply as a type. There is no type for the younger generation of to-day. A few years ago they were nothing but types but a change has crept in. The girl of to-dav refuses to be pigeon-holed into any particular type. She has a mind of her own ★hich is usually a very good one and she insists on using it without domination or parental influence. "The modem girl does not demand jazz parties, cocktails and late hours nearly as much as she demands freedom of thought and action. This modern girl has certainlv not been put under the microscope in recent flapper pictures.” The east of “The Sensation Seekers” ■ also includes Raymond Bloomer, Peggy Montgomery. Phillips Smalley, Edith Yorke Clarence Thompson and Nora Cecil. The supports .include the serial,-a comedy and a news film. COSY DE LUXE. Sammy Cohen, the eccentric come dian who won widespread praise for his comical antics in “What Price Glory,” has an equally amusing role in “Upstream,” John Ford’s latest production for Fox Films, coming to the Cosy Theatre. Cohen makes the most of bis opportunity. He appears with Ted McNamara as n memher of the dancing team of “Callahan anil Callahan” and the director has injected innumerable comedv touches into their scenes. The store denis with theatrical life and how one man achieves fame and finds himself unfitted for it. The picture in support is “Casey at the Bat,” with the inimitable Wallace Beerv ns Casey. A hnsehall story it tells of the rise to fame of a small town player and. like Beery’s recent successes depends for its appeal on humour of a broad type.