PLAZA

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 695, 21 June 1929, Page 16

PLAZA

“GIVE AND TAKE” TOMORROW

This evening will be the last oppor- 1 tunity Aucklanders will have of hear- | ing the Plaza’s fine talkie programme, j which is headed by A 1 Jolson’s "The j Singing Fool.” The new all-talking programme, which begins tomorrow, will be headed by “Give and Take,” the first fulllength talking comedy to be presented in New Zealand. Two well-known screen players will be seen and heard in the leading roles in George Sidney and Jean Hersholt.

This screen production is adapted | from the popular Aaron Hoffman j stage play of the j same name, which j was in Auckland ! some time ago, and is to be a human as j well as a humor- ' ous picture. George Lewis and Sharon Lynn supply the romantic element,

_ _. , ' in important supGeorge Sidney porting roles. “Give and Take” concerns an old fruit canning factory owner, played by Hersholt, and his superintendent, played by Sidney. Lewis plays the owner’s son and heir, and Miss Lynn the daughter of the superintendent. That young lady also has the dual role of secretary to the boss and fiancee to the boss’s son. It is when tho son comes home from college and tries to reorganise his father’s business on a profit-sharing basis that the fun starts. The addition of a hardboiled banker who holds a mortgage on the factory, and a crazy millionaire with a wild chain store scheme, rolls tho plot merrily along, but almost wrecks the romance. George Sidney is said to have the funniest role of his career in this screen comedy. Jean Hersholt also is provided with a role of great character possibilities. The two screen veterans make an excellent comedy team. George Lewis, of “Collegians” fame, and Miss Lynn are seen in pleasing characterisations. William Beaudine directed the picture, and others in the cast are Sam Hardy, Rhoda M- Cross and Charles Hill Mailes. „ . Several excellent supporting talkies will also be presented tomorrow. They will include the “Light Cavalry” overture, played by the Vitaphone Symphony Orchestra of 50 pieces, conducted by Herman Heller; some remarkable banjo playing by Eddy Peabody; songs by the Volga Boatmen, and the charming vocal trio, the Geisdorf Sisters, in “Crooning Melodies.”

CHILDREN’S PICTURES LYRIC, TOMORROW AFTERNOON An effort to meet the needs of children for motion pictures is being made by the Better Films League. The league has arranged for another specially selected programme to be presented at the Lyric Theatre tomorrow (Saturday) afternoon. The films will include gazettes, travelogues, good ccrnedies and such like—in all a programme to delight any child. LITTLE THEATRE SOCIETY NEW PLAY AND NEW PLAYERS The Little Theatre Society, whose endeavour is to give new plays by new authors with new players will achieve its objective when it presents “Hay Fever,” that brilliant comedy by Noel Coward, at the Concert Chamber on June 26, 27, 28 and 29. This will introduce a new and highly successful play by an author who will bo fresh to New Zealand. Out of the cast of nine characters, six players who have not yet appeared for the society, will play parts. BRAILOWSKY BRILLIANT PIANIST The arrival of Alexander Brailowsky in Sydney recently introduces a famous pianist new to Australians, and will add further prestige to the present musical season.

This distinguished artist, who has com© rapidly to the front in Europe and America during the past few years, is said to be particularly notable as an exponent of Chopin though, as to this, the comment of New York critics when h© visited that city two seasons ago was that while he played Chopin well, he played the other composers just as richly. The diversity and scope of his out- I look is illustrated by the fact that on I his first programme at Carnegie Hall, , there were presented Beethoven. , Mozart, Schumann, Saint-Saens. Chopin, Liszt, Faure, He Falla, Seria- I bin, Moussorgsky and Liapounoff— 1 truly a comprehensive choice! Mr. Brailowsky, who is in his 33rd \ year, was born in Kieff, and was a pupil at the Kieff Conservatorium before going to Vienna to continue his training under the direction of the famous Leschetizky, mentor of so many illustrious pianists. It was m 1919, in Paris, that Brailowsky made his debut, attracting immediate attention. His success in Paris was confirmed not long afterwards in a tour of Spain and Portugal, and another of the Scandivavian countries. Later, in a Chopin recital in Paris, in the Christmas week of ' 1921, “the ovation he received,” according to the corespondent of the New York “Musical Courier,” “was one of the stormiest ever witnessed at a piano recital in this city.” He was welcomed with so much favour in South America that he has since made three tours of that part of the world. Italy, Germany, Austria, Poland and and Jugoslavia have all been included in his travels. He went to the United States m 1924 and has given recitals there every season since. He traversed an extensive field in 1927, from the Atlantic to j the Pacific Coast, and has just concluded a similarly comprehensive tour of America, before setting out for Australia. SUBURBAN THEATRES The new programme at the Prince Edward Theatre this evening includes bright entertainment by the Pincushion Revue Company, “a show full of good points.” They will present a number of new comedy sketches, as well as plenty of songs, music and ballet work. The pictorial side of the programme comprises two thrillers, “The Ringer” (Annette Benson and Leslie Faber), also “Seven Footprints to Satan” (Thelma Todd). At the Grey Lynn Cinema the pictures are to be “New Year’s Eve” (Mary Astor) and “The Pride of the Force” (all-star cast). Sunny McKeen, whose nom de nlume, “Snookums,” is so well known, has signed a talking picture contract with Universal. Another short-reel comedy star secured to Universal for \ long time is Sid Saylor.