PLAZA

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 766, 12 September 1929, Page 16

PLAZA

THE HOME TOWNERS” ‘ The Home Towers” the new attrac. tion at the Plaza tomorrow, is a pk T that has enjoyed a great deal of success abroad, but it was left for Warner Brothers to make it into the first-class all-talking hit that it has proven to be. George M. Cohan is known as a playwright of note, blithe stage has been lucky enougtf to receive all his best efforts, and coe. sequently the movies, in this direction, have gone begging. But every dog has his day, and tht stage has had its day so far as making huge successes out of material Jighas been declared unsuitable for th screen on account of the silver sheet; “silence.” For the “talkies” are wit . us, and in the future movie patrons are going to see and hear success!':, stage-plays on the screen. The “Home Towners” i« just on* instance of the tremendous future tfca; lies ahead of the talking picture. Robert McWade, one of the stars o! Warner Brothers’ “all-talkie,” “The 1 Home Towners,” after hearing himself speak via Vitaphone, expressed hiir. self marvellously pleased at the cor. paratively new invention. The “talkies” are gong to give the stage stars some wonderful change* in the future,” says McWade. “and a: the same time they are going to mak* even bigger reputatons for presen: movie stars who are able to adap* themselves to the new order of production.” “The Home Towners” boasts a» excellent cast of both stage and screen players, and Richard Bennett, Doris Kenyon, Robert Edeson and Gladys Brockwell are included in the cast, besides McWade. The special all-talkie supporting items on the new programme will include Vincent Lopez and his world-famous-jazz band; items by Ray Ekinan, the boy wonder; an unusual bird act by Hylan’s Birds, and & series of songs by the Happiness Boy.-, who have previously been heard on the gramophone. The greatest advance in colour photograghy that the screen has so far achieved is seen in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’a technicolour film. “The Viking.” In this picture the colours ol every scene are shown as colours actually appear in Nature, and they blend with each other. Their background is in perfect harmony. The cast is an exceptional one. and includes Donald Crisp, Le Roy Mason, Pauline Starke and others who do much to add to the unique entertainment of this exceedingly beautiful film.