AMUSEMENTS.

Wairarapa Age, 17 February 1927, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

Adolphe Menjou, the Paramount star, whose latest opus, “A Social Celebrity, ’ ’ is at the Cosy Theatre to-night plays the seemingly unromantic role of a barber. But, according to the script which was placed in Pierre Collings’ hand, the scenarist, by Monte Katterjohn its author, our barber was not an ordinary fellow. In fact, if one wished to treat the matter in light vein it might almost be said, that this barber chap (not the one who lived in Seville), was just a bit amorous. As we first saw him, he is the head attendant in his father’s shop, located on the main street of a small mid-western town. He is infatuated with a pretty little manicurist. When we again me%t him in-the big city he is very much in love with a charming young heiress. Placed in ordinary hands, this part ■could easily have been ruined. But kvhen it is played by such a finished actor as that suave sophisticate—Adolphe Menjou, we have a bind of a different colour. And you will say so too ■when you see the film. Chester

s seen as the star’s father. Louise Brooks,'the second featured player apaears as his first love, and Elsie Lawsen is the heiress. Malcolm St. Clair,

whose last picture for Paramount was “A Woman of the World,” directed it in his own inimitable style. Good supporting programme. Reserves at Henderson’s. OPERA HOUSE. “Partners Again,” showing again to-night, is a story of partners who engage in an automobile business. Hattie, Abe’s pretty niece, assists with the clerical work in the establishment and soon falls in love with Dan. Abe and Mawruss demonstrate the car to their first prospective customer, taking along Rosie, Abe’s wife, as ballast. It is a wild and terrifying demonstration, as neither of the merchants are much as chauffeurs or mechanics. All live through the experience in spite of their hair-raising adventures. Abe, however, is servide with a ticket for’accumulating a speed, of which the car was wholly incapable. Upon their return to the agency, Jhey found the place being mobbed by highly dissatisfied customers. They were temporarily soothed by the diplomatic partners, but Abe was forced to give up business for the dn.y and go home to the nursing of Rosie. Meanwhile, it develops that Dan, the young mechanic, has a criminal record, although innocent of the charge against him. Perlmutter is for firing him, ’and so is Abe, until Hattie weeps out the information that they are in love. His heart softens, and ho secretly gives them fifty dollars for a wedding present. And then Mark Pazinsky, a worthless nephew of Rosie’s, succeeds in selling, in turn, stock to all their friends. All goes well until the engine is unveiled with impressive ceremonies, when it is discovered that the engine is none other than that used in a certain popular cheap brand of car. Reserves at Henderson’s or theatre. ’Phone 1048 after 6.45.