TUDOR, REMUERA

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 461, 17 September 1928, Page 15

TUDOR, REMUERA

“CHICKEN A LA KING” A human and absorbing drama of life behind the footlights, entitled “Good Time Charley,” will be shown at the Tudor Theatre, Remuera. this evening, with Helene Costello. Warner Oland and Clyde Cook in the leading roles. It is the story of a song-and-dance i man; with a small-town stock company. Happy-go-lucky, always able to get a laugh, his triumph ends abruptly when word is brought that his wife has been killed. He is left With a small daughter and a pal, his partner in the turn he does in the show. Tears pass and the daughter becomes a star. Good Time Charley’s star wanes as hers rises and a series of unexpected events carry him down a pathetic and often amusing slope until he lands in the Home for Old Actors. It is here that the gerat climax occurs. The second picture is a delightful comedy entitled “Chicken a la King. GRAND SHOWS “THE PATSY” The Grand Theatre will show again this evening Marion Davies’s latest picture, “The Patsy.” In this picture Miss Davies, despite her troubles, and they are many, persists in seeing humour in everything. matter whether she is treading on the feet of the man she loves while dancing with him, knocking him over with an oar while helping him into a rowboat, or quoting half-baked epigrams stolen from a book on “personality/* she laughs—and everyone who se°s the picture laughs with her. The Los Angeles real estate salesman and his methods of doing business contributed a great deal of fun to one sequence of the story which deals -with the adventures of the hero and heroine in opening up a new subdivision in a typical west coast manner. “The Gaucho,” with Douglas Fairbanks, will also be shown.