AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 September 1930, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS PICTURES. AI, JOLSON, SUPPORTED BY DAVIF LEW STIRS CROWES TO FRENZY IN GALA “SAY IT AVITH ■•SON,OS.”

AI jolsoii’s new picture. “Say it With Songs”—Warner Bros, latest special coining to the Princess Theatre to-night, is the story of a maii who, by a trick of fate, loses loved ones, liberty and opportunity, suffers imprisonment and finds peace through his'devotion to a. child—and the child is played by Davie Lee. You loved

•Tolson’s “Sonny Boy” in “The Singing Foo!”- -You will adore the same ' hil I as Jolson’s “Little Pal”, and heart’s 10ve,,, in the latest sensation, “Slav It with Songs” is a grand pro* Auction, and, Mr .Jolspn acts with his usual consummate .skill. The story concerns Joe Lane', a happy-go-lucky and improvident but gifted song olugfrer, who hist on blip verge of success's a recording and broadcasting artist, lights, and , ace. i del Italy kills his employer when .h.e learns of the latter’s unwelcome attentions to his wife. For ■this. Joe geos, to prison- leaving his wife to shift for,herself and their.child. Believing that site has;, never been i lumpy with -him and realising bow ltis ’present -punishment will punish her ever .after, Joe forces her to divorce 1 him and she later-considers marriage with a former admirer, now a famous surgeon. .The child is put into a rebool and being unhappy there, followed his father, who has come to visit him, and is injured by a truck. Only a. specialist can help the child, and Joe takes him to his former wife’s suitor for help. All ends happily in a. blaze of Jolsonesque magic, all of which is like telling someone who has never seen a sunrise just what a sunrise is like. Jolsoii takes the ordinary-story and makes it glow! He and weeHavev boy play to each other in a way which moves audiences to laughter and tears. , Exquisite Marian Nixon is mar-

vellously successful as the wife and ■iiofbei 1 . But it is after Jilt Tulsan --. Jolsoii-the magnetic—the dynamic-—the unique-'master of the unexpected— Jolsoii with his grimaces—his odd antics—bis abandon—that dominates everything. Be sure to see liTm at his best. 'Pile story of “Say It With Songs,” is by Darryl Frances Zairuck end Harvey Gates. Scenario by Joseph Jackrem, The support, includes beside Pn vev Lee—Marian Nixon, Holmes Pp-bert, Kenneth Thompson and Fred Kohler. Llpvd Bacon directed. Laugh, jest and wire a tear or two from your c ,- e« with the incomparable A 1 'Tolson in “Sav It With Songs.” You’ll just love \ 1, little D-'vey Lee, Afaria.it Nixon, and everybody else in this picture—a worthv successor to. “The Singing Foul ” The three Short, Talkies proceed jii*r this AYarner Bros, special are: Mai Hallett and his Owhestra, ]ilaying a programme that will sot anyone’s b'et titvding. The numbers are: “Lobs of Mamma.” “Mother Me eh roe” and' “War Medley.” Burr McTntosh

111 a, ene act nlavet, “Non Support.” Knight MacGregor, inimical comedv am! concert baritone ofFm-ing “Pale Moon.” “Bi" Brown B-wr.” and “On the Road to Mandala'-.” Prices 2s and Is (3d plus tax.

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