ENTERTAINMENTS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLV, Issue 10386, 4 May 1925, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS.

HIS MAJESTY'S. THEATRE. " THE TORNADO."

Big in its dramatic values, smashing in its conception of the spectacular, "Tho Tornado," the feature on the programme at His Majesty's Theatre tonight and to-morrow night, is fine entertainment in many ways, but probably its biggest appeal lies in the stupendous scents depicting the tury ot Natrue as emphasised in the resistless powers of storm and flood. There are a number of these big scenes. lhe most thrilling andi daring in conception are these resultant from a big log jam, which dams up a. storm-swollen river until the flood waters threaten ta sweep away a settlement. At the 1 same time there is an assault by hum-

oane a veritable tornado that tears loose. The air is filled with debr:s. The other is the battering down, or a bridge which collapses just as a train is crossing, the whole being plungea into the river, where the passengers and crew struggle for their lives. House Peters plays the role of a man who seeks by the terrific endeavour consequent upon a life in tho logging camps, to deaden the heart pain caused by what he believes to have been the infidelity of the woman who had promised to be* his wife. A stern, relentless, orini figure of a man, he becomes known as "The Tornado." Ruth Clifford, plays the part of the woman, and Richard Tucker plays her husband, who. it develops, was the false friend who came K-ek from France and told the woman the man she had promised to marry was dead. Peters and Miss Clifford do some fine acting in the scene where she goes to his cabin to learn why he has refused to see her. Another tense-

ly dramatic csene is where Peters, in- | formed' by. a logger that there is a : auavrel ''between them two strangera over in tho hotel," coes to their room and nearly strangles tho husband. Early the next morning . the couple leave on the logging train for tiie main line, and that day the storm descends upon the land. It is "The Tornado" who, at the ri.sk of his life, breaks the jamb, in one of; the big thrills of the picture, and it is lhe Tordano," swept on the crest ot the flood who saves the woman from the fearsome wreck. On the same programme there is an instructive topical and a 2-reel comedy.

HAKATERE LODGE SOCIAL. There was a large at the Hakatere Lodge's card social and dance on Saturday evening. The euchre prizes ware won 'by Miss H. C. FusseTl and Mr F Hands. A one-step competition was won bv Miss M. Cates and Mr J. Mocre Mrs Mitchell's orchestra supplied the music, and Mr J. B. Osborne was M.C.