AMUSEMENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 190, 11 August 1921, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS.

•THE NATIONAL THEATRE. I.f tiiere is even a small foundation of ' » II L. in tr!ie Preliminary announcements of -The Palace of .Darkened "Windows. •■ which is due to commence a six-day season at the National Theatre ro-morrow this new Selznick feature displays sights an t ■scenes that are \s unique us ther are beautiful. The stotV is about the mysterious liarems of the East, -and this particular tale is set in India, where a native prim-... ■Rajah of a province. Imwnes fascinated with the charms of a spirited little English girl who is curious to see the inside, of one of these secret apartments for the royal womenfolk. .So she accepts the Rajah's invitation to go into his palace, au.l the sensational conclusion of the story deals with the great difficulty her friends have in getting her out again. There ar-. racings and chasings, struggles iv mysterious places, flisius over alligator-haunted .waters, a final struggle in semi'darkness amongst burning draperies, and then a return by motor .boat in the flaming Indian daiwn. .A romance is iuterwoven wi:h this melodramatic ztory. THiB .HinPO.DRO.M-B THEATRE. "Prairie Trails" is tho new feature on to-morrow's bill at the Hippodrome Theatre, and Tom .Mix is tlie hero iv this latest release from the' William Fox studios. The film is pnre melodrama, with ■the hero doing things that would be quite impossible fur any .human being unless he happened to be made of rubber and drven hy electricity. .i'.ut still. "Prairie Trails" is interesting and exciting. It is full of .gunshots, gailops over loug trails. v.nd -troubles without number ilia: all accumulate in the way of true love. Theris as much melodrama here as anyone will want, and there is more than one comedy situation as a set-off to the niirre exciting ■parts of the play. THE TIVOLI THEATRE. '•Forbidden Fruit," the Paramount picture t,hut will come to the Tivoli tomorrow, is another of those features that will cast up the Paramount reputation lo as high a point of honour as it has ever yet enjoyed. Though a tritle seitsatiomil in plot, the story haj; been aimed beautifully, and its action reflects great credit upon Miss Agnes Ayres. the beautiful -woman who takes the role of t.he rehne-l wife of a neVr-tlo-well. This woman. a< a girt, elopes wiih .Steve, a young fellow who afterwards turns out to be a waster, mil •Ma.ry has to keep herself and her husband and the home Iby working as a seamstress. "X rich society woman is struck by Mary's beauty and offers her a Position to till a vacancy at a social fun.-tion. Then occur several distressing situations, and all ends with discovery that Mary is married to a man who is right "outside the i«ale." a burglary, a. romance between Mary and another, and the eventual death of her husband. TUB LYiRIC THEATRE. •It Is evident that "The Faith of the •Strong." which begins a season at the top of the Eyrie programme to-morrow, i< a film with -settings tiiac will ajmeal to all lovers of the outdoors. Fre-.ii air. and SU-nshine play rouu.l the heads ..f lite fighters wlio move -through this picture, and there is a woman —rather a pretty little lady—'brought into the story to give a stronger love interest a> a motive fur all the bare fist fights and open feuds in -which these men indulge Mil.-hell Lewis, the brawny portrayer <«r athletic parts, is the first favourite in "The Faith of the Strong." which is bas.-.l in ii~ pl„ t :rp..r, the laws of mighr rather than right. '.\:. experiment lately introduced by the management of this theatre is the playing of popular tunes by the orchestra for ten minutes before the usual overture. "I'M-: innovation has been s.-» popular rha: j' !..-.- been made a permanent feature ~: ::.•• Lyric enterta'umt'tiis. AMUSEMENTS GUIDE. HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE —John n. OV'tara in "Welcome Sirana-i r." OPERA HOUSE—-Fuller's Vaudeville and Tlie Serena.tori. KING'S THEATRE, NEWTON—Fuller's I>ran. i::■• Players In "Each Man for TOWN'"' HALL CONCERT CHAMBER— The Vlre-negals. TOWN HALL —Ja.-cha Ileifotz. the Violinist. PICTURE-THEATRES. THE MATIOIWL —"Outside the Law" Universal Eignt-r.-.-ic.-. THE HIPPODROME William Ru~-ell in "Colorado Pluck" and Shirley Mason in "The Mother Heart " a - on THE TlVOLl—Thomas Moighan in -The Easy ttoait." by Paramount " 'THE LYRlC—Uoraldina m -fhc \v™ Untamed."' Woman THE J?-r',' N( ir S v S ~ 1 ' alamo ' 1 " 1 Picture, "The THE STRAND locietv r,,rr,„.i „ "Hood References " -*' mp,l y-arama. thl 0 %<*»■• * Garter Girl " "runts in "The THE "Bla D e n ~ Viola nana ,„ WEST KNb-,- rKlkin , su . ra _..