The Show's The Thing

NZ Truth, Issue 1202, 13 December 1928, Page 20

The Show's The Thing

PRETTY, Norma Shearer is star m r "TrelaAvney of the, populag stage ' stand-by which has : now been brought to ,the screen. Part worm playing and star worth watching. AT least one little actress has spent a ** bit of her honeymoon m New ' Zealand, though, to be strictly accurate, she merely gave Wellington- a passing glance, whilst en ..-__ m route for San Fran- "" ' Cisco. What most people -don't-, know is that Louise, Lovely was- only married on November 28 last m Melbourne, . and to a Melbourne man — Bert Cow a n. Many happy returns of the day, Louise; ■ : *. *■ THE "Battles of * Coronel . and Falkland . Islands," just now 'booming m Wellington are, we suppose, an outward and visible sign of the insistency of English producers that we should behave like little patriots and give . their stuff a look m. But it's a really good sea-film and worth the strain of the oceanwavey music. , ■i * * FROZEN .- FACED is what they /call Buster Keaton, the young man who is acting with Ernest Torrence m "Steamboat" Bill." „„„„„„„„,,„„„„ Frozen everywhere - -^ >' isi what we should consider him, and why people ■ should go into ecstasies because a man always looks as if .his liver were causing him acute agony can only be explained by a nation which will go three times a week to see another man Avith crossed eyes pour custard down the necks of buxom waitresses.

THE. ''Redding -March,", m which a substantial gentleman called Erich Von Stroheim is to take the lead with a pretty lady, called Fay.JWray, is to come .to New Zealand -soon. - -Noticed, in' one; of her last, - that . Fay Wray's long and lustrous hair, looks') eal-f-pej.*---haps. she's, one. of the few Hollywood maids who didn't .offer, up her tresses, or. else she's been phencmally quick m growing", the two "" ■"""""""" i ""» iiii "" iiii " i "_f ee t. or go which now . wave m the breeze. , * . * ■ TAMES BARRIES J wistful little playlets are among those first selected for "talkie" production. If we could really combine the slender, immature charm of a Betty Bronson with Barrie dialogue decently spoken, we'd have somewhere worth going" on Christmas Evg. ERNEST TORRENCE is a giant of a man, and one with vivid dramatic powers. He played an Arabian Djinn once m the "Brass Bottle" and was easily the most impressive Dji n n we've ever" seen. Again, m "T h c Isle of Lpst Ships," .his bit was the bright patch m the day's work. He has ano^er good role (n "Steamboat Bill,' '.' ' ■■■•"■"■"•■ i an( j ma y be expected to carry it through well. •. #■■ : fe # "COUND synchronization" is the way '*** movie men characterize their efforts to make- musical and vocal accompaniments fit m with the scenes shown on ""the silver sheet, but Lord help us all when/ the Mighty Wurlitzer tries to sound synchronize m with a ■farmyard picture. "