NATIONAL

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1022, 12 July 1930, Page 14

NATIONAL

TWO BIG TALKIES Undeniably one of the best comedy feature pictures of the current season is the Path© all-dialogue and silent production, “Sailor’s Holiday,” featuring Alan Hale and Sally Eilers, coming to the National today. It is a laugh-maker of the finest type. It is a picture that unfolds a serious theme, but there is no preachment, nor is the plot complicated. “Sailor’s Holiday” is the first big nautical comedy of a splendid series of productions in which Pathe is to feature Mr. Hale during the remainder of the season. From the standpoint of cast, direction, interest of story, appeal and its humorous situations, “Sailor’s Holiday” is hailed by Press reviewers as standing in a class all its own. There is excitement aplenty when the two sailors “clean-out” the cafe to rescue a womah in distress. There are thrills galore when Adam and Molly attempt to rescue the parrot from the top of the ferris wheel. There is comedy in abundance in the scenes in which the two “gobs” struggle to elude the master-at-arms who is trying to send them to the bridge. The second big attraction on the National’s new programme is entitled “This Thing Called Love,” and is a smart comedy of matrimonial complications and troubles which serve to contrast the modern and the old-fashioned ideas of marriage. Constance Bennett and Edmund Lowe head the brilliant cast. VICTORIA, DEVONPORT The great film, “Atlantic,” is now being shown at the Victoria Theatre. E. A. Dupont directed “Atlantic,” and that same sense of impending disaster, that unmistakable feeling that something is hovering like a dark Nemesis over the stage, is present in “Atlantic.” The climax, when the great ship plunges into the icy ocean, with the band playing “Nearer, My God, to Thee,” and the frightened women and the pale-faced men being thrown like puppets into their watery grave, is one of the most moving climaxes the screen has effected. SHOP ASSISTANTS’ DANCE The usual weekly dance of the Auckland Retail Shop Assistants’ Union Charity Club will be held in the Scots Hall on Monday evening, and a very pleasant time is promised. The music is provided by the popular and talented Versatile Pirates’ Jazz Band, and the floor is ideal for dancing.