STRAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 806, 29 October 1929, Page 15

STRAND

“FOX FOLLIES” ON FRIDAY 41 Jolson’s great dramatic and singing success "The Jazz Singer” will be shown at the Strand Theatre for only a few more days. and Aucklandei s should avail themselves of this last opportunity of seeing and hearing this talented entertainer. The programme of short talkie supports will also be presented only until Thursday. The comedy element of the AY illiarn Pox Movietone "Follies of 1929,” aside from that which arises from situations in the story which is interwoven into the gigantic production, is well taken care of in three blackouts, in two of which Stepin Fetchit. premier negro comedian, appears. The Follies is coming to the Strand Theatre for a. long engagement beginning next Friday. The first one, called “Daniel Boone, is an all-negro number, the cast including Stepin Fetchit, Annabelle Lee, George Reed and John Lester Johnson. Johnson is the former heavy-tveight prize-fighter, the only man who ever knocked out Jack Dempsey. He registered a "K. 0.” on the Manassa Mauler when Dempsey was just starting his rise to the heavy-weight championship. The second blackout is called "The Process Server,” and was written by William K. Wells, author of George White’s “Scandals” for many years and writer of scores of vaudeville acts, as Avell as the dialogue in the Fox Movietone Follies. . The third short number is a single by Stepin Fetchit. in whicli he does a dance of the old plantation days. All of the blackouts, as •well as the i story of the Fox Movietone Follies, i were directed by David Butler, who i wrote the story, also. The song bits i were provided by those Kings of Tin I p a n Alley,” Conrad, Mitchell and Got- | tier. '