ENTERTAINMENT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4443, 24 April 1930, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENT.

TOWN HALL. mill a~.\ii.xutl mliaadrama IX ■■Till'.: Willi'” FILM. Looitgli thrills iilid excitement to List ;i IH'iitinn? tin.' packed into a few reels ill,’ film in “Tim Whip,” Firsl National's pioluriy.ation of the famous si ago melodrama ML the Town Ha ll on yaI unlay next. For sheer, mile-a-minute melodrama, with deep-dyed villains, beautiful heroines, noble heroes and all the other familiar components of melodrama of this type, “The Whip” can scarcely lie surpassed. It has train wrecks, a hero with amnesia, an automobile smash-up, numerous lulls from horses, both unintentional and otherwise, enough plots to ■dart twenty South American revolutions and divers other accompanying highlights. It has, moreover, a east, of excellently chosen and directed players, a richness of selling and cost inning found in few product ions and a smoothness of lee'lmiipie which makes it all seem ■highly plausible. To Dorothy Mac I-:,-lilt goes tirsl, honours for her portrayal of' the heroine, Lady .Diana. Lowell Sherman, sleek and suave ami unscrupulous cinema tie villain, contributes a delightfully subtle performance, and b’alpli l-'orbes is a thoroughly satisfactory hero. -Xc ver has Anna (,). Nilsson looked more beautiful or striking than in her role of “Madame d’Aipiihi,'” a woman of the world who lends a hand to Air. Sherman's innumerable comiivings. Usual prices.

June ('ollyer and Louise Dresser return to (lie local screen next .Monday, when the Town Hall will show

“Lot (fuite Decent," a Fox Film dial Letts the story of a. mother who makes herself out as unworthy that her daughter might not take a misstep. Miss Oliver, who has appeared in “Four Sons,” “Ale Gangster," “lied Wine" and other Fox successes excels all her previous work, and Miss Dresser, of “The Air Circus" and “Mother Knows Best" fame, gives the finest of all her tine portrayals. In addition, the cast: boasts of such prominent players as Marjorie Beebe, Oscar Apfol, Faul. Nicholson and Ben Hewlett. Allan Lane, a recent screen find, is Miss Ooltyor's faithful sweetheart.