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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 782, 1 October 1929, Page 15

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“THE YOUNGER GENERATION” This evening sees the final screening at the Roxy Theatre of the fine aIJ talking drama. “A Dangerous Woman Baclanova. Clive Brook and Neil Ham ilton are the stars, with Baclanova in tlio title role as the voluptuous Russian wife of a colonial resident agent in the jungles of Central Africa. The Roxy programme also includes a number of short talkie features. Tomorrow the Roxy will present an entirely new sound programme headed by a fine talking picture entitled “The Younger Generation.’’ The picture is an adaptation «* r Fannie Hurst’s famous stage play, “It. Is to Laugh.” Jean Hersholt has ti ** stellar role, with Ricardo Cortez. Lina Basquette. Ilex Lease and Rosa Romanova featured. An exceptionally largo and capable cast, including several children, is in support of Hersholt and the featured players. Among the highlights are a tenement house fire, a daylight robbery on Fifth Avenue, and gay events in a Riverside Drive apartment. The action is tense. Tears which fill the eyes during the dramatic moments are hidden by smiles as pathos gives way to humour. Jean Hersholt makes a rapid transformation in this Columbian production. The early sequences reveal him as a middle-aged man struggling to keep a roof over his head. Late scenes show him several years later much more matured and at the clime v he delineates the same man broken down and prematurely aged. Several songs were written specialD for this picture. Over one-half of the entire action is presented in dialogue. The Roxy will also present an entirely new programme of short talking and singing featurettes. These excellent items will include Hawaiian sonp«* by the three Bronx Sisters; “Memories.” a singing attraction by Lucy Marsh and Lambert Murphy: “An Alpine Romance.” a novelty singing quartet, and finally a talkie comedy en titled Falling Stars/* introducing Henry Bergman and Marcia Manning The latest addition of Path? synchro nised news will complete the pro-

The choice of Leila Hyams for the role of “Nellie O’Neil” complete** of the most interesting casts ever assembled at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios for the filming of The Thirteenth Chair,” Tod Browning’s alitalking adaptation of the famous stag* play and mystery drama. Margaret Wycherly, brought from New York for the picture, plays “Rosalie La Grange the role she created on the stage, and Bela Lugosi, famous for his delineation of the vampire hero of “Dracula” on the stage, plays the inspector of Indian police secret service operatives who enlvpq thp nnrannv mv<atwv