STRAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 754, 29 August 1929, Page 15

STRAND

“SPEAKEASY” Portraying roles which are bound to make a lasting impression on film devotees, Paul Page and Lola Lane score tremendous triumphs in the Fox Movietone production, “Speakeasy,” which continues to attract at the Strand Theatre. Page portrays the role of a collegebred fight champion who is saved from degradation by the love and faith of a youthful newspaper reporter, played by Miss Lane. The two were recruited from the legitimate stage for this alltalking picture and are potent factors in raising the story to a high dramatic level. The supporting cast includes Henry B. Walthall. Sharon Lynn, Helen Ware, Warren Hymer, and Stuart Erwin. Benjamin Stoloff directed the photoplay. The story was adapted from the stage play of the same name by Edward Knoblock and George Rosner. The supporting programme includes a number of short all-talkie features by world-famous artists, also an address by the Right Hon. Ramsay MacDonald. Other attractions are an alltalking comedy, entitled “Sound Your A,” introducing Marjorie Beebe and Arthur Stone; a Fox Movietone News, and another entertaining item by Gertrude Lawrence, the English comedienne, entitled “Early Mourning.”