ENTERTAINMENT

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3946, 23 May 1929, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENT

TOWN HALL. There is little need to introduce “A .Sister to Assist ’Er,” at the Town Hall on Friday. The music ball sketch of which this film is an adaptation —it is too well knoWn throughout the country, and in fact, throughout the whole of the Eng-lish-speaking’ world. For eleven years up till the time of the death of the late Fred Enrney, the sketch ran continuously as a top liner and was played in every part of the British Isles. Its popularity is well indicated in the number of catchphrases that 'have (been borrowed bv the public, from its dialogue. The film incorporates the whole of “Mrs, May’s” adventures as depicted in the music hall sketch, and also introduces other adventures that it was impossible to portray within the tilme limit of a vaudeville act. “A Sister .to Assist ’Er” .might almost bo described as a classic of Cockney low life. Its broad humour has given pleasure to millions and through the instrument of the screen, it will amuse many more millions yet . With “Cycling Mad,” a. sporting novelty and NeWs. Usual prices.

Plenty of action and , all the thrills of tbe original story are promised with the showing of .Fox Films screen version of “The River Pirate,” which is colming to the Town Hall on Saturday. Victor McLnglen, Lois Moran, Nick Stuart, Earle Fox, Donald Crisp and many other favourites enact the roles of the colorful characters of the story which proved such a sensation when it appeared as a magazine story and later as a book. Usual prices.