ENTERTAINMENT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4499, 2 September 1930, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENT.

TOWN HALL. Milton iSiUs brings us a new type oi' role iu his latest starring picture lor. [First National, “Love and the Devil,” at the Town Hall on Wednesday. For the time being Sills drops his backwoodsman, wrecking boss and barker types and dons dress, suits and the polished manners o£ an English lord. And he does it very well. His portrayal o£ Lord Bryan, the English explorer who falls in love, with a woman’s picture, is one that will stand out among the (finest of 'Sills' characterizations for tlie screen. He carries us through the trials and tribulations that pursue the love affair of the staid Britisher and the temperamental Italian prima donna with ease and finished artistry, and again demonstrates that Milton Sills is one of the finest actors on the screen to-day. “’Love and the Devil,” is a First National story that brings darkest Africa to Venice, then to England and back to Venice. ' Directed by Alexander Korda, the distinguished, European director, this foreign story made in Hollywood is convincing and authentic, with carefully-ehosenback-grounds and proper types in the minor character roles. With “Seeing Stars” (Comedy), Serial and News. Next Saturday's feature, “Thoroughbreds,” is an exciting story written around “The Sport of Kings.” It is filled with scenes of the turf and does not hesitate to expose many of the evil phases of the sport as practiced in America. Marion Nixon and Richard Walling supply romantic interest s v to “Thoroughbreds.”