ENTERTAINMENTS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLVI, Issue 10474, 13 August 1925, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS.

HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. "I WANT MY MAN."

1 To-night only His Majesty's Theatre will screen "I Want My Man," a fine dramatic story featuring, Milton Sills and Doris Kenyon. Credit is due to the principals and to Director Lambert Hillyer for the convincing manner m which it has been done. There are puignanco and strength in the situation of the woman who fi'ees her husband to test her claim on his affection on fair terms with the woman who has waited for him. And there is the strength of admonition in Sills' return after eight y;ears of war blindness in France seeking a cure to find his fine old family caught up in the jazz delirium that swept the world at the end of the last war. The picture is an adaptation of Struthers Burt's recent novel, "The Interpreters House" and the unusual theme and many tensely dramatic moments make of it an entertainment of the highest class, while, the performances of the two principals and their fine supporting cast have even further enhanced the plot, making of it a very real, very human and appealing little story. A Travelogue, Topical and comedy complete a fine programme.

"BEING RESPSCTABLE." The main attraction at His Majesty's Theatre to-morrow and Saturday will be "Being Respectable," the screen version of the Grace Elandrau best seller, which treats m an entertaining manner a little social problem which touches every man, woman, and child in every community under the sun. It challenges the "I don't care what people think of me" mood, in which the majority of mankind find themselves at times, and shows conclusively that, whether we will it or not, we are tightly bound by the bonds of convention. The story tells, with seriousness and humour, of the passionate searching beneath the commonplace, the bewilderment that underlies the lives of men and women in their search for individual happiness. The human group in this tale rebels against respectability, and then rebels against their antirespectability. "Being Respectable deals with three young people—a young woman, striking, appealing, but declasse; another, wealthy, plain, and correct socially; and, of course, the much sought young man. The man slips into a marriage' with the society girl before he realises it, although he cares! for the other. Years pass. Then the girl of the old romance returns, along with the old emotional urge. What will the man do? Monte Blue is adequate as the distraught husband, Ilene Rich gives an unusuallv fine performance as the wife, and Marie Prevost reveals further histrionic improvements as the third angle of the triangle. Others in the cast are Louise Fasenda, Theodore Von Elts, Frank Currier, Eulalie Jensen, Lila Leslie, Charles French, and Sidney Bracey.