AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 December 1929, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS PICTURES. REGINALD DENNY—TO-NIGHT. Many of the most entertaining features that can occur in a motion picture are jammed with gusto into the new Reginald Denny vehicle, “The Night Bird” which opens at the Princess Theatre to-night. This comedy has everything that makes for laughter and all the ingredients of the entertainment pie; The photoplay is a comedy-drama or a romantic comedy or a thrill comedy and it is all rolled into one riotious picture. There is a love theme running through the story—a theme of transcendent beauty all the more unusual, for “The Night Bird” is aimed for laughs and riot only brings them down but touches the heart strings as well. The prize fighting in the picture is the best ever seen on tne local screen. There is more whirlwind action in this than in a typhoon. Universal must have spent a lot of money making this production for it iB featured by sets of extreme elegance, huge . crowds of expensively dressed people, great crowds at the fights and other’scenes of fine production value. The Artists’ Ball sequence alone mrist have ‘cost more than the ordinary, picture for here seems to be

concentrated rill the feminine beauty and artistic endeavor of the modernists *into one glorious, glittering wild party. Denny’s acting ability is responsible for the great majority of the laughs. His expressions in times of stress are ludicrous; he does one of those excruc-

iating dances aided by Corliss Palmer ; and the prize fight scenes where he must end the fight quickly to get away to save his finance from the cruel villian present a new idea in motion ( comedy. Betsy Lee, the little girl who plays opposite Denny, is a true discovery. This is her first big role and she is mast charming and capable. For her the goal must ultimately be stardom.