ROXY AND CRYSTAL PALACE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 786, 5 October 1929, Page 18

ROXY AND CRYSTAL PALACE

“THE YOUNGER GENERATION”

Jean Hersliolt, one of America’s most talented actors and a master in the art of make-up, demonstrates his great skill in the talking production, “The Younger Generation,” which is now at both the Roxy and Crystal Palace Theatres. In the early sc- -•-•••” "I quences of the drama Hersliolt portrays Pa Goldfish as a middleaged man, a pushcart merchant struggling to support his two children in a tenement of the East Side in New York. There is a lapse of several years to allow the children to mature. Morris, the boy, played by Ricardo Cortez, has developed a business acumen and has moved the family from the East Side to a luxurious apartment on Riverside Drive. Pa Goldfish has changed considerably. The advance of years and the inactivity of retirement has aged him. The third stage of Pa Goldfish’s maturity comes at the end of the production after another two years has elapsed. Morris has sent his sister, Birdie, delineated by Lina Basquette, adrift because she married her childhood sweetheart on the East Side, a role in the capable hands of Rex Lease. Heart-broken, unhappy and robbed of all his companions, Pa Goldfish appears a man much older than his years.

Mr. Hersholt’s work has been declared an outstanding piece of histrionic art. It shows great skill and a keen understanding of human nature and the process of nature. The face, carriage, build and personality all undergo a change with the passing years.

The short talkie features include Hawaiian songs by the three Bronx Sisters; “Memorie,” a singing- attraction by Lucy Marsh and Lambert Murphy; An Alpine Romance,” a novelty singing quartet; and finally a. talkie comedy entitled “Falling Stars,” introducing Henry Bergman and Marcia Manning. The latest edition of Bathe synchronised news completes the programme.