ENTERTAINMENT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4039, 9 January 1930, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENT.

TOWN HALL

There are many features to the entertaining British Dominion’s Fidm, “The Rising Generation,” which is showing at the Town Hall Cabaret on Friday. Firstly, Alice Joyce, the “Lady Brandon” of “Bean Geste,” returns to the screen in the highly suitable role of a Society woman, who anxiously watches her two children, who have risen 'to maturity, and are Imsily engaged in'a life of hectic pleasure, openly sco,fifing at the so-called Mid-Vic-torian conventions. Jameson Thomas, who is also well-known to screen-goers, plays the part of Major Kent, the father, whilst a charming little English actress, Joan Barry, and William Freshman, a. handsome talented Australian youth, play the respective roles of Peggy and Robert, the son and daughter. Further interest is added to the cast by the inclusion of Betty Nuttall, the tennis player, who is very pleasing in the role of a young society girl. The striking cabaret settings and night club interiors are a credit to the direction : of Harley Knoles, who unfolds the intriguing story in a very novel manner. Nothing has been attempted before in British Films on these lines. It is a fresh romance, full of youth, yet pointing out a moral, which it would be safe to sav, lias been learnt by most families of the world —'that although youth must have its fling, there comes the inevitable time, when a reckoning must be made. With “Lines, of Marriage” (Novelty), and-. British News.' Cabaret prices. ’

Wlmt can happen when the powelr of the press is 'brought to bear on the clutch of the- underwork! is shown in “Protection,” the high tension Fox melodrama of newspaper men and racketeers, which is at the Town Hall on Saturday. Robert Elliott, Dorothy Burgess and Paul Page, all relative newcomers to the screen, head this capable east; Elliott as the hard-boiled' managing editor, Miss Burgess as the rum king’s gun-tot-ing sweetie, and Page as the young reporter. Opening up in the palatial residence of the gunman, extraordinary events move at a breathless pace up to the bombing of the newspaper plant and the amazing surprise denouement. For those who want action plus suspense plus a strong vein of romance, Benjamin St ol off’s production is recommended without reservation. Usual prices.