KING GEORGE THEATRE

Hutt News, Volume 2, Issue 13, 22 August 1929, Page 5

KING GEORGE THEATRE

SATURDAY

"HIS LUCKY DAY"

"His Lucky Day" the latest starring vehicle for Reginald Denny will be shown at the Bang George Theatre on Saturday. Charles Blayden is a young j-eal estate dealer who wants to sell two adjoining mansions to his sweetheart's father. The latter, who thinks himself a great reader of character, has decided that Blayden is a failure. In order to check the affair "between Blayden and his daughter; he agrees to rent one of the houses but refuses to buy either until Blayden finds a tenant for the second who is socially equal to the Weavers. In his efforts to make good Blayden innocently ""Installs a gang of crooks in the house adjoining Weaver's.-He discovers his mistake when he finds one of the crooks stealing valuable" antiques from Weaver's collection. Weaver, however, is convinced that Ms new neighbours are in every way desirable and wBl not listen to Blayden when he tries to warn him against them. Kay Weaver, his sweetheart, also turns her attention to the youngest of the men in the crook gang and Blayden is consumed with fear for her as well as with jealously. The ending is unexpected and filled with laughs.

"OUTCAST"

Never has Corinne Griffith appeared

to greater advantage than in the role of . Miriam, a girl of easy virtue but with a heart of gold and a soul above her sordid surroundings, who not only rises to great heights herself, but also uplifts the man she loves in "Outcast* her second First National starring picture under her new contract with that organisation. This wid~ely-heralded picture, directed by William A. Seiter, will be shown at the King George Theatre on Saturday. The stellar role made famous on the stage by Elsie Ferguson over a decade ago, when the celebrated Hubert Henry Davies play had its Broadway opening in New York and afterwards toured several important cities, calls for real character delineation and gives Miss Griffith an opportunity for tremendous emotional depths contrasted with lighter moments, which bring into play . her keen comedy sense. "It is roles such as Miriam" says Miss Griffith "that are always my favourites because of the essentially human quality about them and also the opportunity for contrast or shading. Certain pictures gain their chief entertainment value through fast movement, or spectacular scenes with stupendous settings or the sustained suspense of one thrill after another, and so on, but the stories in which I find keenest joy in my work are the ones which stress the gradual development of a character. MONDAY AND TUESDAY Orgy of Thrills in Edgar Wallace Film "THE FORGER" Forged notes that seemed to drop from nowhere —an elusive "Clever One" — silent and undetectable —numerous clues, damning, butffalsae —a midnight struggle in a young wife's sleeping room —a murden in the small hours —an innocent man bathed in blood and charged with the crime. These are some of the thrills being offered in "The Forger." Mr Wallace's remarkable knowledge of crime has been put to excellent use- in this story, which has been adapted and well produced as a screen play. As is usual with Mr Wallace/the identity of-"The Forger" known faT and wide as "The Clever One" is wrapped in mysetry. The evidence points in a damning fashion to a r.'eh young man newly, married. The evidence piles up against him, complicated and intensified by a mysterious murder, 'but, as we have been asked to keep the climax of the film a secret we cannot tell you any more of the story. Nevertheless, the story is unfolded with all Mr Wallace's keen eye to drama and the audience is carried along irresistibly to the denouement. _ . ■ ■ Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday _ "ALL AT SEA" "All At Set* the Tiew Karl DaneGeorge K. Arthur co-starring vehicle for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer playing at the King- George Theatre on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, is a comedy you can't afford to-jniss if you are seeking > rollicking entertainment. It has everything and is one of the best productions this famous team have yet screened. "All At Sea" maintains sus tamed laughter for more than an hourj it has a neat little romance and a "whale of a thrill for a finish. The climax occurs when an arsenal explodes injecting riot, panic and fire into a tale in breath-

taking fashion. As the title suggests, this comedy is a sea-going affair, though it all takes place not on the ocean, but in a naval training station. Dane and Arthur don the navy blue and then proceed to declare a war of their own — with complications—on each other. Their feud is heightened when they fall in love with the same girl, Josephine Dunn, a good-to-look-at young leading lady who plays the girl in a lively and romantic manner*