ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3896, 17 January 1929, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

TOWN HALL. One of the most unusual and delightful pictures seen is at the Town Hail to-night. It is First National’s “The Big Noise,” a sizzling satire both on sensational journalism and metropolitan polities, replete with humour, pathos and gripping drama. It is from the pen of ißen Heclit, noted novelist and former Chicago .newspaperman. Chester Conklin is in the featured leading role, as a “dumb” subway guard who is picked up and exploited as a hero by a New York tabloid in order to further the cause of its mayoralty candidate who is campaigning against the traction company. A saucy but pleasing love slory runs through the picture, with Alice White and Jack Egan doing some very good work as the ju\eniles. Sam Hardy gives one of his usual witty performances as Philip Hurd, an ex-subway guard, who is now owner of a jumping tub concession at Coney Island, and whom Conklin, in the role of John Slovin, the subway guard, admires above all other men as a success in life. Hardy desires Alice White’s hand in marriage, and Conklin readily promises it without, however, doing much consulting with his daughter. With other pictures at usual prices. Norma Shearer will be seen tomorrow evening in “Trelawney of the Wiedls,” adapted from Sir Arthur Wing Pinero’s established stage success of the same name. Usual prices. ROYAL. There is a touch of romance and a thrill in “Grip of the Yukon,” the Universal Picture showing at the Royal on Saturday, that will set the blood tingling through the, veins of the most critical theatre-goer. It is one of the most ,vivid screen versions of the great snow wastes of Alaska that local fans have had the pleasure of witnessing in many a day. The story is an original photoplay written by Charles A. Logue and has one of the most unique plots ever worked into a story of this type. One almost feels the intense cold of the great glaciers and ice fields which form the background for practically, the entire action of the s'tory. And into the cast of this great picture Universal has placed some of the forem'ost men and women players of the screen. In fact it might be termed an all-star east. June Marlowe, in the leading feminine rote gives a sympathetic conception of_ the character of Sheila O’Neil as the daughter of Burr Mclntosh who appears in the be-whiskered role of an Alaskan prospector. Francis X. Bushman, once Broadway’s idol, portrays a real he-iman roie as the buddy of Neil Hamilton and with the support of Theadore Lorch, Otis Harlan, and James Farley makes one of the best screen appearances of his career. It is worth anyone’s time to see it.