AMUSEMENTS
MUNICIPAL PICTURES. •'Know Thy Child” lias backgrounds and settings that show the beauty of Australia and the healthy standard of living in that country. There is a typical back-blocks township with its cue & only store fill™ with everything under the sun,* and exquisite, river and harb scenery. There are semes of J<} f favourite! sports in Austraha —fi- 11 ing, swimming, tennis and yac-lit ingand combined with { b € ‘ e '* story of considerable fu» incident and adventure, am. ping the interest from start to »■ ish. Miss Vera, James, din movie star, gives a fnte PC formance throughout. Her pearance is as the fresh in*spot> country girl of seventeen then as a woman of twentyand later at the age of R} 1 ? ' thereabouts. In each age, sne pn trays the pari with restraint. < l -■ diamatic skill.
OPERA HOUSE Tom ATix scores jus a champion w automobile racer, in bis latest o » “Stepping Fast." showing « Opera House to-night. 11l ' „Ain<f charged melodrama of ® thrills and romance, Tom cn ' S United States of America for his excitement locale. Bacj. “ the Pacific he dashes in a speday * to recapture a gold mine in the An* desert, and the thrilling «ncoun.*r goes throngli before getting is most exciting. “The Leopar _ jJV Paramount picture staring Aw* & • is the story of a girl’s thrilling ture in the South Seas. The !*. ‘ and sea scenes are most beantifu, make the film the best out door P ture yet presented here.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LII, Issue 8597, 21 May 1924, Page 4
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