GRAND AND LYRIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 636, 12 April 1929, Page 14

GRAND AND LYRIC

“HOMESICK” A grudge fight which starts in New York City, is continued clear across the continent, and ends in California, is one of the comedy high-lights of “Homesick,” to be shown at the Grand and Lyric Theatres this evening. It screens Sammy Cohen, the popular screen comedian, and has a supporting company which includes Alarjorie Beebe, screen star comedienne, and Harry Sweet. The comedy incidents in “Homesick” revolve around a transcontinental bicycle race with a prize of £5,000, and Cohen and Sweet as contestants for the cash and Marjorie. At each stop across country Cohen and Sweet engage in fist fights in an effort to settle an old grudge. There Is a stampede of cattle, which involves the riders, a forest lire, and other calamities. “Paradise,” a brilliantly presented and colourful story of a poor English girl at Monte Carlo, is the second feature. Betty Balfour and Alexander D’Arcy have the leading roles. Fine story, great cast, artistic produetion, and splendid entertainment • just about describes “The Red Dance.” j This latest Fox super production is a story of Russia during the revolution, i with Dolores Del Rio and Charles Far- • rell in the stellar roles. The beautiful j Mexican gives probably her greatest j performance since her role of “Char- | rnaine” in “What Price Glory?” as the i peasant girl who becomes the famous Red Dancer of Moscow, and a leader of the revolution. Charles Farrell is equally effective as Prince Eugen, whose sympathies are with the people, but who in the turmoil of rebellion is 1 sentenced to die before a firing squad