"SIDE STREET."

Hutt News, Volume 3, Issue 26, 20 November 1930, Page 5

"SIDE STREET."

• ''Side Street," a story of New York •police and racketeers, behind a tender theme of family love, comes to the King George and Prince Edward Theatres next week, and co-features rthe three Moore 'brothers, Tom, Owen and Matt, for the first time in their long association with motion pictures. George O'Hara put away his make-up (box to write it as an all-.talkie. Along "with, the Moore brothers, the east includes. Kathryn Perry, Emtna, Dunn, Frank iSheridan, Walter McNamara, Al Hill, Da& Wolheim and other notables, inter-wovdn' wit-h the fastmoving story- of Manhattan, polities policemen and racketeers is a fund of .old Irish humour and a muscial baek- < ground that affords a.'fine setting. •'HAIiF MA3E&BIA.G-E.'' , ■-Hcraldiod as one. of the finest allstalking ; pro deletions '^tejL^ea&h" -'■ l local screens this season, "Half Marriage' 7 is also Olive Borden's first talking vehicle for Radio Pictures. . _/Phis swiftly moving story of mad Manhattan youth, adapted from. George i KiMie Turner's magazine story, '' Com: panionate," will open an engagement at the King George and Prince Edward Theatres next week and Borden fans, ; who havo followed her through her < stellar work on the silent screen, will now have this opportunity to hear her talk. • • : "■■_ '; ■• r ALLEGED HUMOUR - Uncle Honpe6k: "Vow boys of to-day want too much money. Do you know what I was getting when I married your aunt?/' Nephew:- "No, and I'll bet you did not eitheT." , - "My wife-is an inveterate smoker. Why, three times she's sot the ibed on Sire with her ■cigarettes. Would you recomMend a, suit for divorce?" "Either t&at or a suit of asbestos ■pyjamas." '< Johnny was in the habit of swearing t mildly when anything happened that : did liot please him. Orib day the minister heard him and he said: '' Jchnny, \don Jt you know that\ jb. is wrong to .swear? ' Why, every time I teat you swear*cold1 •chill runs dbwn my back. *' " Groe,'' said JoSinny, '' if you had :been at my h.ouse'the; other day when any dad caught his nose in the clothes wringer, you'd have froze to death." Motorist: "My car, constable, that I left up here for an hornr has been stolen." Constable: "You're lucky sir, if I'd known it 'ad been/ap there for an hour I?d 'ad you np for obstruction. *' -'•'■' ,-..'%■ ...... > - '~ First Girl: X was very much admired at the dan«e last night. I noticed one igentleman who never took his eyes off me the whole evening. "Did he. have a toothbrush- moustache?" "Yes. Do you know himf" "Of course. He's a detective. He 'was there to watch the presents.": Pat was having his first flight in an aeroplane. The pilot was taking him over Xiondon. WEhen they were up about 3000 feet the 'plane suddenly 'went into a nose dive. i "Ha! ha!" laughed the pilot, shouting to Pat. "Jpifty peT cent, pf the pepple down there though we were fall(ing.",;' . ;. ■/. . -■■; ! "Sure," admitted Pat, '<'and 50 per cent of the people up here thought so, too!" : Jane: "What's the idea of the suit-case—-going away?" ■ ._ / • Brown: "No, I heard the cJrareh was giving a jumble sale, and I'm talking \my best clothes down to the office;; unv til it' 6 over." - | A man who had been asked to make his af,ter-dinner speech as short as posT*ible arose and "•I am asked to propose the toast of Mr, DodsJion, and I. have been told that; -the less -said the better.*' I "Is it true, Donald, that ye've got maTtied?"' * v'.~ I "Ay, Jock." ..-•:■ ; " "An' what kind of a body is yer ■ wife*"' .'::" J ;'"' ■'■■" "" ; ■""■• ■■ ■"; •' "Well, Jock. Ah dinna complain; SheV * God's handiwork; but ' Ah.'inthinking she's; no Hiis masterpiece."