AMUSEMENTS

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LVII, Issue 10036, 27 March 1929, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

TOWN HALL

This evening a benefit programme will be given for the local Fire Brigade. A Mctro-Goldwyn-Maycr classic photoplay, ‘‘Trelawney "of the Wells,” will be the attraction and stars Norma Shearer, supported by a very notable cast of players, including Ralph Forbes and Owen Moore.

On Monday and Tuesday next, “The Garden of Allah,” featuring Alice Terry and Ivan Petrovich, and made by Metro-Goldwyn-May-er will be the special attraction. As a novel “The Garden of Allah” remained steadily in public favour for twenty-five years—a quarter of a century. Telling a story that is ageless, depicting human characters that are just as real to-day a; when the author first created then) and presenting with unparalleled dramatic force mans oldest men tel travail —his love, for a woman struggling with his sense of duty—time could not diminish the appeal of such a story endowed as it was by the magic touch of a master of dramatic fiction. “The Garden of Allah” comes to the screen, given added beauty and still greater dramatic power by the mastery of Hex Ingram and backed by the vast production resources of Mc t ro-G ol dwyn - M aye r. The picturisation of this powerful and unusual story was carried out in the locales described by Robert Hichens at Biskra, Algeria, a sparkling green oasis thrown down amid a sea of sand; on the great Algerian desert where a wind \torm of tremendous magnitude was /mploved to furnish the picture with one of the most spectacular thrills ever provided solely by nature. The musical score will he played by the orchestra. Seat? may be reserved at Stevens Bros, up to Thursday next.