ENTERTAINMENT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 40402, 16 January 1930, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENT.

TOWN' HALL,

CABARET TO-NIGHT

At to-night's Town Hall cabaret the programme will be headed by “The First Born.” This is a society drama which, from the opening scene is packed with sensational situations and spectacular settings. The main plot of the story is enacted in a beautiful English county, though a very important sequence takes part in Africa, wlffii'e the tropical scenery and bizarre interiors form a striking, t hough pleasing, contrast .to the beautiful rural atmosphere of Lhc Manor interiors and country scenes of England. Miles Mamldr, considered to he one of the screen’s most outstanding actors, plays the idle of Sir Hugo Boycott, a degenerate. and faithless husband, whose mad obsession for a heir oddly contrasts itself with .his own disgraceful living. Minuter at anytime is an excellent artist, but playing in the leading role of his own story, he is exceptionally brilliant. Madeleine Carroll ,affords a very pleasing- picture us Lady Madeleine Boycott, and her llong-sulfering patience is excellently; suggested bv her clever acting, and she immediately gains the onlooker’s sympathy. Further force is given to the cast in the pejrson of John Loder, who was last scon in “The Doctor’s Secret,’’’ an all-talking picture. He plays the sympathetic lover of Madeleine. Also Comedy and British News. Cabaret prices.

“There’s never a law of God nor man runs north of Fillythree!” So sang Kipling in the “Rhyme of' the Thk'ee Sealers,” and this is 1 the theme of Allan iDwan’s latest Fox Films’ production, “The Far Call,” which comes to the Town Hall next Saturday. Norma T'alniadge has played almost every nationality in motion pictures, Now she’s an Austrian in “The Woman Disputed,” coming to the Town Hall on Monday, which was made at United artists under the direction of Henry King and Sam 'Taylor-