AMUSEMENTS

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LVII, Issue 10035, 26 March 1929, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

TOWN HALL

To-night for the last time, an outstanding Fox production will be shown, entitled “Soft Living,” starring Madge Bellamy. The story tells of a wise little city girl who marries a handsome millionaire from the big timber country for his money, and who then falls in love with him. This theme provides many humorous situations, and is a rather extraordinary class of comedy drama. To-morrow evening a benefit programme will be given for the local Fire Brigade. A Mctro-Goldwyn-Mayer classic photoplay, “Trelawney of the Wells,” will be the attraction and stars Norma Shearer, supported by a very notable cast of players, including Ralph Forbes and Owen Moore.

On Monday and Tuesday next, “Tho Garden of Alluh,” featuring Alice Terry and Ivan Petrovich, and made by Metro-Goldwyn-May-cr will be the specaal attraction. As a novel “The Garden of Allah remained steadily in public favour for twenty-five yearn—a quarter of a century. Telling a story that is ageless, depicting human characters that arc just as real to-day as when the author first created them and presenting witli unparalleled dramatic force mans oldest mental travail —his love for a woman struggling with his sense of duty ■ time could not diminish the appeal of such a story endowed as it was by the magic touch of a master of dramatic fiction. “TheGarden of Allah” comes to the screen, given added beauty and still greater dramatic power by the mastery of Rex Ingram and backed by the vast production resources of Metro-Ooldwyn-Mayer. The picturisation of this powerful and unusual story wis carried out in the locales described by Robert Hichcns at Biskra-, Algeria, a sparkling green oasis thrown down amid a sea of sand; on the great Algerian desert where a wind storm of tremendous magnitude was employed to furnish the picture with one of tho most; spectacular thrills ever provided solely by nature. The musical score will be played by tho orchestra. Seats may be reserved at Stevens Bros, up to Thursday next.