The Show's The Thing

NZ Truth, Issue 1203, 20 December 1928, Page 4

The Show's The Thing

WHILST admiring the demure air of Irene Homer, as "The Patsy" m the play of that' name which '-will shortly come to -Netv -Zeal arid;- don't" forget that this is the very' first time the wistful heroine has ever played what is sen-, tentiously known as "a good girl..* Over m America,, irrepressible .Irene is (Qn stage, of course) a veteran of many campaigns, m which the gentlemen with the moustaches and ulterior j motives usually came off second best. She's even been the "I are Tondelayo" lady of "White/Cargo"— and very well she took the part. But apparently the rou&e comes off, for she has scored just as big a success as the nice little person m "The Patsy." 7 * * f * '■ THE "Emden" film is very shortly to 1 follow that of the "Battles of Cororiel arid Falkland Island." From England come interesting critiques of this film, which holds a special attraction for New Zealand and Australia, m that Von Muller's craft came so close to our own domains. , No rancour or partisanship has been allowed' m the making of the film. This should be a relief, for m the war films usually seen, such qualities have made most of us very weary. The promise of "a thread of ro-mance"—-and all perfectly true-r---sounds, however, a bit out of step. Surely the producers might have reserved the • treacle-moon for some more appropriate occasion. .'.'■•''• ' 7 * 7 *•' STIFFY without Mo-Mo , without Stiffy— we insult the classics of vaudeville by supposing such a thing, Yet the old partnership, one of thirteen* years' standing, has ' really been broken up. Mo has acquired some Merry Moments— more leg and lipstick, we suppose— and Stiffy goes to, Melbourne with his "Whirligigs." The two were a quaint combination, and, of late, a somewhat coarsely flavored dish, appealing only to the hardened palate. But the blue chin and red thatch have, nevertheless, introduced us to some really "merry moments" and New Zealand audiences will be sorry to see an old and tried stage partnership: go west, '..; # .:-.'■"■.*,■ '.'.,;* - BACLANOVA is the theatrical name of a new "star" who is doing, a bit of a glimmer above Paramount studios. The lady has just finished work on Zane Grey's ■'Avalanche" and is now to be an accessory, during the fact m "The Wolf of Wall Street." Sounds, m both cases, .as if lots, of hair and heart-rending would be required.

THE . dear old Vanbrugh-Boucicault combination seldom fails to tickle the palate of N.Z. theatre-goers, and "Mr. Pym" will pass by yet again m the next season. There's another play called "On Approval" — about a wife who took a husband that way. Whether she was able to return him to. the bargain counter is not known. With the company is J. B. Rowe, who last was m New Zealand as a member of the cast of "Meet the Wife." ■'■#...*■ # UVELYN BRENT is a rather inter- - estingr little lady who has been very prominent m the screen -world lately, and who, m spite of the fact that she is. given very common or garden roles to play, somehow manages to convey a sense of difference from the ruck. •■■.:■•■# *-. . . . # TF you want laughs, meet Syd. Beck, ■ "little Mister Baggy Breeches" of the vaudeville world— but not with too strong an accent on the "little." Syd., just now, is fathering the League of Notions, many of which Notions have seemed to Wellington bright ones indeed. If you want to identify Syd. himself, by his trousers shall ye know him. They're bags which' one can't help noticing — the last and loudest word m bassmess, Another identification marlis the jovial humor which Syd. is moie than capable of putting over.