ENTERTAINMENT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 40043, 24 December 1929, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENT.

TOWN hall.

SPECIAL HOLIDAY ENTER - • TAINMENT.

Special arrangements have been made for attractive programmes during the holiday season at the Town Hall. The season opens tonight when Reginald Denny’s newest, and finest comedy, “(Clear theDecks,” is to he the attractive offering. Denny enacts the role of a wealthy young engineer, just returned from an extensive trip to Africa, who falls in love with a beautiful girl. He is unable to learn her name but ascertains that she is embarking that afternoon on the S.S. Kee Woe. Unable to secure accommodations upon the boat, he agrees to exchange places with a. friend of his, who is supposed to be ' slightly unbalanced, and is being compelled to take the voyage for his health. While on beard ship, Denny is forced to submit to various trials and tribulations to preserve his incognito. These hilarious situations, combined with the machinations of a gang of jewel thieves aboard the same ship, who mistake Denny for a Selective, provide Denny with one of the most uproarious comedy stories of his career. o]ive portrays the,part of the girl and liUcien Littlefield that of the male nurse. Otis Harlan and Colette Merton enact the l-oles of “Pussyfoot” and “’Blondie.” With “Then Morning Came,” and “Panicky Pah"” (Comedies) and the latest News reels. Prices 1/- and 1/6. Children half price. , Backed by the raging, seething of a now oil field, where the ‘gushers may. he expected to come in at any second, “The Showdown,” which. comes on Boxing night, presents a love story of tre‘mendous poignancy and power. Selected as George Bancroft’s firststarring picture fon* Paramount, following his sensational appearance in “Underworld,” “The Showdown” is the story of four men — and one woman —brought face to face with primitive conditions in a desperate struggle to, find the flowing gold. Into the swampy jungles

of tile hack country of the Tgmpico oil fields comes a gently nurtured girl from New York. Ignorant of the conditions she must face, she brings a trunk full of evening clothes and gold-mounted toilet articles. Through a series of events, she finds herself alone in the hack country.- Then begins a. tense drama which surpasses even the suspense of “Undelmvorld,” and builds to a smashing - and totally unexpected finish. Prices fid and 1/6. Children 3d. and 6d. “No. 17”—the British Dominion’s him! which is showing on Friday certainly belongs to the thriller class, of stories, hut —with ' “a. difference. The audience are in the peculiar position, almost fi’om the commencement of the film, seeing eight different characters, hopelessly entangle themselves in a web' of circumstance, and crime, and the many dramatic and humorous situations in which they become involved, are both laughable and extraordinarily entertaining. Guy Newall, an English actor, Avho is very popular at “home,” has the stairring role of a down-and-out tramp sailor, but like the plot, is a hero with a difference. He does not intend to emerge with flying colours from, the series of happenings in which he finds himself hopelessly implicated. All he wants is a good square meal and somewhere to sleep. Usual prices. THE TALKIES. At the De Luxe Theatre, Levin, on Tuesday the one hundred p£r cent. Talkie, “The Letter,” will be the attraction. On Christmas night “The Passion Play of Oberammergan” will be screened and on Boxing night a further talking picture, “Two Weeks Off,” should attract a large number of patrons. Special matinee on Boxing Day at 2.30 p.m. For further particulars see advertisement.

Madge’s ’bus leaves Foxton each night provided their is sufficient inducement.