ENTERTAINMENT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 40040, 17 December 1929, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENT.

TOWN HALL

Have you ever seen a night club? Have you ever wanted to see one? Well, your wish is about to be gratified. Wednesday is the date on which Gilda Gray’s new Paramount picture, “Cabaret,” reaches the Town Hall. Club Cosligan, with its liyeried doorman, high-jacking waiters, fizzed water, two-iby-four dance tlooi’, jazz bands and bandits, giddy girls, giddier customers, bootleggers and bootlickers, —is the background against which “Cabaret” takes place. Gilda is the poor girl who leaves ha|r squalid flat to win success as a 'dancer —and does. Tom Moore, one of the Moore brothers, plays opposite the star;, comical Chester Conklin enacts her father. Robert G. Yignolo. directed this picturisation of Owen Davis’ original screen 'stolry. With “Barnyard Rivals” (Comedy), and News. Usual prices. A unique and very intriguing story is revealed in the British Dominion’s Film, “A Peep Behind the Scenes,” which will ibe coming to the Town Hall Cabaret next Friday. It is a melodrama, which takes you behind all the glamour and tinsel of a travelling English fair, and shows you all its strange people in their true light. There are midgets, giants, fortune tellers, and such oddities as a Bearded Woman, a Mermaid, and a human skeleton, and the manner in which 'the director —Jack Raymond —has shown all these fair folk as they really age, makes a picture which is in turn humorous and tragic, but always interesting.

TALKIES AT DE LUXE THEATRE, LEVIN.

TO*-MORROW NIGHT,

The Foxton public will be afforded'an opportunity of hearing the 100 per cent, talkies which open in the De Luxe theatre, Levin tomorrow night, when the First Na-tional-Vitaphone feature “Drag,” starring Richard Barthelmess is the opening talkie.

In the screen version of the William Dudley Pelley novel, David Carroll, (played by Barthelmess) marries Allie Parker, and suddenly finds himself the keeper of her brother, father, mother, brother’s wife aiid brother’s three children. She clings to them Avith a sincere but misplaced affection that eventually ruins her domestic bliss. Their selfishness never becomes apparent to heir —a selfishness that drags [David down and doA\ 7 n until he balks against the unnatural burden iand concludes that his wife’s love for her family is rooted deeper than her love for him. “Good Avorks” Allie 'does not She is primarily interested in the welfare and humoring of her OAvn family. The fact that hei> husband’s future is being ruined by her oavh misinterpretation of marital obligations does not occur to heir, and so disaster folloAvs in the Avake of their bond. Before Allie David, she kept herself neat and attractive. Having conquered her. prey, slovenliness became the rule. The Avife’s interest in her family predominated above her interest in hejr husband. There are mahy-Avives like that.. Allie is not an individual —she is a class. Go into .their homes and A\ r hat do you find —hairpins everyAvhere and a sink full of dishes.

Allie might have been forgiven by David for her clinging to her people as against her. husband, if she had kept herself as attractive after marriage as before. Certainly David Avould not have married ll her could he ;haA 7 e seen her “offstage,” so to speak.

When David married Allie he wanted a little place of his own — a chance at happiness—instead he got a family dumped on off him—dragging him. down. And so another chapter in matrimony was ended. -But from another soulree David found the happiness to which lie was entitled. He found the inspiration that sent him on to the heights to- which lie aspired. He found a mate who shared his love, his woilk. and his ambitions and who was. ready to march with him shoulder to shoulder —two against the Avorld!

There will also be supporting pictures. Hart’s -’bus will convey i''oxtoh passengers to-morrow evening and seats (may be booked at Walls’.