NATIONAL
LAST DAYS OF BUSTER KEATON Those who attended tho National Theatre and saw ‘Free and Easy.” Buster Keaton’s first all-talking picture, are probably still laughing for this satire on the mdking of talking pictures in Hollywood is undoubtedlv one of tho funniest travesties ever t*» reach the screen. With a cast which includes Buster Keaton, in his first talking role, Anita Page, Trixie Friganza, Robert Montgomery. William Haines, Dorothy Sebastian. Karl Dane, Lionel Barrymore, Fred Niblo, Cecil B. De Millo. John Mijan, Gwen Lee, Lottice Howell. William Collier, senr., Marion Shilling, and a host of other familiar screen faces, tho comedy presents a threering circus view of what goes on inside studio walls. “The Ship From Shanghai,” the second picture, adapted from Dale Collins’s sea novel, “Ordeal.” is a vivid drama of a mutiny on the high and is bound to arcJuse widespread local interest. Kay Johnson. who scored in “Dynamite,” is the heroine and Louis Wolheim plays the sinister Ted, mutineering ship’s steward. Conrail''Nagel, Holmes Herbert Carmel Myers arid others are in the cast.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1038, 31 July 1930, Page 17
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176NATIONAL Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1038, 31 July 1930, Page 17
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