ENTERTAINMENTS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLV, Issue 10338, 27 February 1925, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS.

HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE. “THE GIRL WHO CAME BACK.” Photoplay conventions of long standing are routed by Tom Forman, the director of the Master Picture, “The Girl Who Came .Back,” which will be shown at His Majesty’s Theatre to-night, at to-morrow’s matinee, and again at night, when he shows a side of criminal nature that inspires sympathy and respect. “My experience with actual hardened ‘ jailbirds ’ has convinced me that a criminal is only a sick man, with a disease of the mind instead of the body, and that science will one day find a cure for him,” says the director. “ Crime will one day be cured like measles, and until science and psychology, working together, can achieve an arrest and cure of the criminal instinct, the confinement. into which we seek to push them is wasted effort.” In the ca.it of the film are many favourites. The sheik episode, without which no picture is complete, has been given a new twist in “The Girl W’lio Came Back.” A costume ball, staged with the picturesque “ rim of the world” as a. background, serves as the opportunity for this extravagantly-staged feature of the picture. Kenneth*Harlan appears in the role of the sheik. Owing to the fact that the picture was filmed during California’s rainy season, it was decided that the big. garden “exterior” should be constructed indoors, bushes, trees, pool and alb A complete garden, with- colossal gabways and silken hangings, was therfore erected on one of the stages.ln the centre is a novel pool, on which floats a flower-decked _ boat, and in whose depths splash Oriental maidens. - A scenic, “King-Winter-,” a comedy, “Skylarking,” ' arid a Pathe Gazette will comprise the supporting programme.