ENTERTAINMENTS

Southland Times, Issue 21099, 3 June 1930, Page 4

ENTERTAINMENTS

MAJESTIC.

MATINEE AND TO-NIGHT.

GEORGE BANCROFT IN “THE MIGHTY” AND KEN MAYNARD IN “SENOR AMERICANO” ALL-TALKING, ALLTHRILLING.

Hail the new show world in all-talking pictures, Paramount has put real old time action in the talkies! George Bancroft in “The Mighty,” at the Majestic Theatre, this week is a real thriller. Things we had expected to wait years to see and hear have been bundled into this picture in a grand style. The cast is a real thrill, just , read these names, George Bancroft, Esther Ralston, Warner Oland, Raymond Hatton, O. P. Heggie, Dorothy Revier and Morgan Farley. The story is that of a pre-war gunman, who smiled at the law, was forced into the war, and emerged a national hero without a past. He is made police chief of a crime ridden city, but his old gang find him and they plan a grand raid, with his a.d. Growing tired of waiting, they hold up three banks while Bancroft and the police force are at a picnic. Off goes deepchested George at the head of fifty motorcycle officers, riding at break neck sped, firing as fast as their automatics will shoot! What a thrill! From thence on the action is so swift that we are told six cameras were required to catch it and you won’t doubt this statement in the least when you see and hear “The Mighty,” closing to-night. “Senor Americano,” Ken Maynard’s latest talking picture for Universal, which also finishes at this theatre to-night, is a production of the most unusual interest - and appeal. Its action is laid in the colourful days just preceding the admission of California to the Union. It deals largely with events in beautiful Southern California, in the most romantic period of its history, when the traditions of old Spain still flourished. Ken Maynard gives an ideal performance in the role of a young American cavalry officer who falls in love with a beautiful Spanish Californian girl. The strong supporting cast includes Gino Corrado, J. P. McCowan, Frank Yaconelli, -Frank Beale and Maynard’s famous trick horse, “Tarzan.” Plans are at the Majestic. THE REGENT. MATINEE 2 p.m. NIGHT 7.45. FINAL SHOWINGS OF BEBE DANIELS IN “LOVE COMES ALONG.”, There will be two sessions at the Regent to-day—matinee and night—when the final opportunities of seeing Bebe Daniels' latest, “Love Comes Along,” will be presented. When sound came, someone at the Paramount studio decided that Miss Bebe Daniels could not sing and her voice was not good enough for talking pictures. The whole industry now laughs. Someone tells a story that Jesse Lasky fainted the first time he saw and heard “Rio Rita.” And no one can blame him for that, for Miss Daniels’ work in “Love Comes Along” confirms the belief that she is not only a great singer, but a first-class dramatic actress, as well as a first-class comedienne. The story unfolds somewhere in Latin America, and presents the heroine, a stranded chorus girl, working for a wine shop, dancing and singing, so as to make her living and to save enough for a ticket back to America. But it was not so easy for her to save money, for she wasn’t the kind of girl sailors at port were seeking. The hero, a sailor, meets her and becomes so fascinated with her beauty that he seeks her company. When he finds out how good a girl she is he falls in love with her. She, too, falls in love with him. The hero’s ship is about to leave and the hero bids the heroine good-bye. The heroine thinks that he is no different from other sailors. But the hero returns. She is overjoyed. During the hero’s short absence, the heroine is engaged by the villain, a powerful Spaniard, to sing at the fiesta. When the hero finds out about it he places the worst construction upon her act and, after denouncing her, makes ready to leave her. The heroine, unable to convince him that her singing was merely a business matter, denounces him and orders him to leave. The hero goes, but is disconsolate and returns. He goes to the fiesta. The villain has him arrested. The heroine, knowing that his life was in danger, begs the villain to spare his life, offering to do anything for him. The hero is released, but returns and by a ruse spirits the heroine away, taking her to the ship, which was ready to steam away. All misunderstandings are removed and both are happy. The supports on this programme are excellent. Plans are at the theatre. “ON WITH THE SHOW.” NEW AND MAGNIFICENT PRODUCTION —ALL IN NATURAL COLOURS. AT THE REGENT TO-MORROW. “On With the Show,” Warner Bros, first 100 per cent, natural colour talking, singing, dancing Vitaphone picture—coming to the Regent to-morrow, is the most important milestone of this year of grace in the film industry. There is not a single scene in “On With the Show” which is photographed the old-fashioned way. The glamorous stage and back-stage story is seen through the medium of enchanting, ever-changing colour. An entirely new colour process is being used which brings out each hue in its proper value. Jack L. Warner, vice-presi-dent in charge of production, was quick to seize on this new art and combine it with Vitaphone. The wedding of the two, bids fair to start another revolution in the film industry. Vitaphone pioneered by Warners, it will be remembered eliminated the silent picture. “On With the Show,” with its music, dancing, songs and gorgeous colours of settings and costumes and people on the stage, is really stunning. One forgets entirely that it is a motion picture, or even a talking picture. The effect is utter reality. It is as if one were sitting in a theatre seeing a musical comedy, with the added privilege of going backstage with the players where the real comedy and drama of their lives take place. The cast of “On With the Show” includes Sally O’Neill, Arthur .Lake, Betty Compson, William Bakewell, Louise Fazenda, Sam Hardy, the Fairbanks Twins, Joe E. Brown, Lee Moran, Harry Gribbon, Wheeler Oakman, and many others. The supporting films will be found much better than usual. Thty include some real gems.