ENTERTAINMENT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 40041, 19 December 1929, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENT.

, TOWN HALL. When one patronises the “silent” screen drama nowadays it is frankly admitted that we expect a higher standard than the “silent” screen has offered us in the past. “A Peep Behind the Scenes,” the British Dominion’s film, which is at the Town Hall (Cabaret on Friday, appeals right from the first, scene, for the vory_ theme with which it deals is as interesting as it is novel. It is not a drama of the theatre, as the title suggests, but a splendid romance of a travelling English Fair; and the many eccentric characters that go to making its company are absorbing figures around which revolves a story which combines tragedy, romance, and comedy in a very clever, manner. Frances Cuyler, a yoiuig London revue dancer, has the leading lole of Rosalie, a dancer of the English screen “find,” plays Toby /'airs, whilst Haddon Mason, a new and romantic young lover of Rosalie. A very telling chai’acterisation is given ,by Saxon 'Snell, who plays Augustus Joyce, the cynical and brutal father of Rosalie. Filled with midgets, giants, tightrope walkers, sword Swallowers, and many other Fair oddities, this picture is bound to please with its convincing atmosphere, acting and story. Cabaret prices. “The most spectacular feat ever filmed” has been the verdict of many in the audience of “The Cavalier,” the Tiffany-Stahl special production featuring Richard Talmadge, Barbara. Bedford and David Torrence, which is the attraction at the Town Hall -on Saturday, after beholding the popular stunt star’s death defying leap on horseback, carrying Barbara Bedford, across the abyss stretching down hundreds of feet below to the jagged rocks which would have made mince meat of the two players and their steed had the nerves or muscles of any one of the three faltered even an instant. Usual prices.