AMUSEMENTS.
EVERYBODYS PICTUREB.
TO-NIGHT AND SATURDAY. $ ?
“LITTLE JOHNNY JONES.”
One of 'George M. Cohan’s greatest musioal comedy Hits forms the plot basis for “Little Johnny Jones,” a very elaborate and punchy.' “special” talking picture at the Princess Theatre to-night and /Saturday. For “I’m a Yankee Doodle Dandy” and “Give My Regards to Broadway” have been retained from the famous musical show and Bimoll, who takes the title role of the jockey, also sings several new ones. The two old song, hits promise to be popular all over again, and several of the new numbers, written especially for the picture, are sure-fire. Director Mervyn Le Roy, who played - the jockey in ‘ ‘Little Johnny Jonffi” on the stage in San Francisco years ago at the Alyazai. and directed the big film for 5 First National and Vitaphone, is enthusiastic over the Cohan material foj' screen plots. “Cohan’s whole success is based on his extreme humannesis,’’ Le Roy declares. “His musical comedies had real plots, and were always,.good motion ,picture material, even in the silent days, but of course they are even 'better now that the music and dialogue can be given. “This Cohan humanness gives »■ nort of universal entertainment basis. That is why ‘Little Johnny Jones,’ with its race track thrills, night life, slum _ life, isn’t ‘hokum” or melodrama at all, but is just human, logical, dramatic, and, as a. love story, altogether natural and charming.” “Little Johnny Jones,” it is appearing on. the screen, is- modernised to the minute. It deals with three thrilling races, one of the “punchiest” being a smalltown bush track affair, another being on a big New York track, and the elimatio rare being at Epsom Downs. England. ‘lt shows the famous English Derby; in which the hero wins the race and the girl of hifi heart. Alice Day, Edna Murphy, Donald Reed, Robert Edeson and Raymond Turner are some of the well-known pi a vets in the cast. Also Five Shorts and Serial. ; Prices 2s and Is 6d, plus tax, children 6d. -
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 November 1930, Page 3
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336AMUSEMENTS. Hokitika Guardian, 28 November 1930, Page 3
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