PRINCESS AND TIVOLI

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 249, 11 January 1928, Page 13

PRINCESS AND TIVOLI

TO-MORROW’S PROGRAMME Patsy Ruth Miller and Glen Tryon are featured in the all-star cast of “Painting the Town,” a Universal-Jewel-William James Craft production which will be shown at the Princess and Tivoli Theatres to-morrow. “Painting the Town” is a rollicking farce comedy of a small town hick who “crashes” Broadway with a score of trick inventions. In the role of bucolic wise-cracker, Glen Tryori is almost the whole show and establishes himself as one of the most promising comedians in the business. William James Craft, the director, also wins a new standing in the industry by reason of the picture, say those who have seen it. The story, which in no small way contributes to the laughmaking value of the picture, was written by Harry O. HfFyt. Members of the all-star cast, in addition to Patsy Ruth Miller arid Gien Tryon, include George Fawcett, Charles Gerrard, Sidney Bracy, Monte Collins and Max Ascher. Books, plays and poems have all in their turn contributed to the screen. Now music also takes its place as a provider of picture material. “The Blue Danube,” a romance based on the famous waltz by Johann Strauss, has now been filmed and will be given its premiere presentation at the Princess and Tivoli Theatres to-morrpw. Lya Mara has the principal part, and Fred Zelnick directed the picture. As music naturally plays a prominent part in the production of “The Blue Danube,” the greatest care was taken to see that the various melodies introduced synchronised with the movements on the screen. A full orchestra was in attendance on the set during the filming; and the swaying of the dances in the ballroom scenes was regulated by them. When the picture comes to the kinema, the same music will be played at the same tempo, and the dances will thus sway once more in perfect time. In some cases even, the film was run backwards and timed to a second so that “The Blue Danube” waltz should finish exactly the same second as the artists.