EDENDALE

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 473, 1 October 1928, Page 15

EDENDALE

“BRINGING UP FATHER” “Bringing Up Father.” a comedy based on tho well-known newspaper cartoon, will be shown at the Edendale Theatre this evening. The new picture is a matrimonial mix-up and inter-family light. Polly Moran being the wife of a successful but plebian business man, while Marie Dressier, as his sister, is married to a sundae shop keeper, and does not possess any social aspirations. As the sisters-in-law, Polly Moran and Marie Dressier achieve their greatest triumph. J. Farrell MacDonald as Jiggs also proves an expert in mirth-making when he is extracting a bootless foot from a rat-trap, dodging a rolling pin. or stealthily returning home at 2 a.m. “A Plan's Past,” starring Conrad Veidt. is the second feature. GRAND “UNDER THE BLACK EAGLE” “Under the Black Eagle” is the title of the picture which heads the doublestar programme now being presented at the Grand Theatre. Ralph Forbes and Marceline Lay are the stars. “Hound of the Leep,” the second picture, is a romantic story of the tropics adapted from the novel, “Pearl of the South Seas.” CAPITOL SHOWS “A MAN’S PAST” “A Man’s Past” is the picture to be shown at the Capitol this evening. The story concerns a noted physician who is sentenced to prison for putting to death one of his patients suffering from.an incurable disease. He escapee from the prison and is well on the road to rehabilitate himself in new surroundings when he is discovered by a former officer of the prison. Both the officer and the surgeon love the same girl and it appears that the the officer will expose the doctor in order to get him out of the way. He does not, however, which sends the story into an entirely different climax which is both original and thrilling. “Tip-Toes,” a story of a dancing girl who planned to marry a lord who was a millionaire, is the second feature. A PICTURE OF CONTRASTS “Tempest,” the new John Barrymore picture, is a story of contrasts, depicting as it does all the luxury of Tsarist Russia and the subsequent chaos of the 1917 revolution, which transformed private soldiers into generals and generals into fugitives. In the early part of the picture, “Tempest” shows the pomp and gaiety of life among the ruling classes when entertainments rivalling the fetes of the ancient Romans were staged in the castles of the rich. With the overthrow of the Empire, the soldiers seized control, and it is as a young peasant officer who lovps a princess that John Barrymore .gives a characterisation which is said to surpass any other role of screen or stage in his career. John Barrymore has a new leading lady, a dark-eyed, blond-hatred German fraulein named Camilla Horn, who will be seen opposite the star in this production. Her rise from obscurity to fame was sensational after her performance as leading lady for Emil Jannings in “Faust.”