NATIONAL

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1033, 25 July 1930, Page 17

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NEW TALKIES TOMORROW Tonight will see the final screening at the National Theatre of the two talkies which have amused audiences during the past week. They are “Sleeping Partners,” a French farce in which Seymour Hicks, the London stage celebrity, makes his talkie debut, aaid “Half Marriage,” an American comedy starring Olivo Borden. “The Ship From Shanghai,” first motion picture of which 90 per cent, was filmed on the high seas, will be presented by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer at the National tomorrow. A schooner, treated acoustically, was equipped with a complete recording outfit and the play filmed while on a cruise up and down the Pacific Coast. The picture is a dramatisation by John Howard Lawson of Dale Collins’s novel. “Ordeal,” and was directed by Charles Brabin. It tells the story of a grofipe of society people becalmed at sea. and prisoners of a muttering ship’s steward, who is gone mad. Louis Wolheim plays the mutineering steward. The cast includes Conrad Nagel, Kay Johnson, Carmel Myers. Holmes Herbert, Zeffle Tilbury, Ivan Linow, Pat Moriarity, Tom McGuire. Pietro Gentile and Pat Harmon A typhoon at sea, a water famine on the ship becalmed in the middle of the Pacific, the fight between Wolheim and the mutiny crew, and the rescue, are among the highlights of the production. The second .attraction tomorrow will be “Free and Easy,” a satire on Hollywood studio life, making use of such well-known names as Buster Keaton, who makes his talking and singing introduction, and Anita Page