ENTERTAINMENT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4037, 4 January 1930, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENT.

TOWN HALL

The ace of adventure in his greatest picture. Buck Joues in “The Big Hop,” featuring beautiful Jobyna Ralston and a. distinguished cast, will be shown at the Town Hall to-night. Thrills in the air. Thrills on the ground. Thrills at sea! If you don’t see this one you might as well stop going to the movies, for Buck has performed what is knowui as a “natural” —one of those pictures that delights everybody—a hundred percenter. It is a tale, of rash adventure in the air, loaded, with young love and popping with excitement. With “Should Husbands Pay” (Comedy), News.' Usual prices.

‘Don’t miss “Sorrell and Son.” The long-awaited screen version of that novel of father-and-son devotion which lias been read by hundreds of thousands of readers throughout the world, w'ili be at the Town Hall on Monday, and it is easily ranked among the year’s live best pictures. In many ways it is the most absorbing achievement in ciiiema realism ever made. Brilliant direction, acting so real that Iho eminent players seem to be living theitr rolesj fine settings —including historic spots in England, where much of the story was filmed —and llawless photography combine to create wliat is nearly the ultimate in entertainment. H. B.

W arner, playing his first part since “The King of Kings,” Anna Q. .Nilsson, Alice Joyce, Nils Astlier, Carmel Myers, Malry Nolan, Norman Trevor, Betsy Ann Hisle are some of the artists who share honours in the pieturization of Warwick Deeping’s novel. “Sorrell and Son” is a story of father love and son devotion, a story of England during the post-war period, when heroes came home, only to find their peacetime jobs appropriated by stay-at-homes, and facing the necessity of working in the most menial tasks to support themselves and their families. “Captain Stephen Sorrell" was one of these heroes; not only was his job gone when he returned to London after the Armistice, but his wife was faithless. Left with a young son as his wife deserts him for a wealthy profiteer, “Sorrell” works as a hotel porter in order to educate the lad and give him a chance in life. Prices 1/- and 2/-. Ohil-. ..wen half price.

THE TALKIES. On Monday and Tuesday the management of the De /Luxe theatre (Levin), will present “The Bachelor Girl,” with fascinating dialogue and a complete musical score. The featured players are William Collier, Jr., and Jacequeline Logan; On Thursday and Friday a great mystery romance will be featured —'“The Girl in the Glass Cage.” The two star players in this sound picture are Loretta Young and Carroll Nye. Madge’s’bus will run as required -and seats may be-reserved at Mr. D. Ball’s shop.