AMUSEMENTS

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LVII, Issue 10052, 18 April 1929, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

TOWN HALL. A double feature programme will he offering at the Town Hall tonight only. The attractions arc “The Enemy" and “The f Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come.” “The Enemy,” Metro-Goldwyn - Mayer s spectacular screen version of Channing Pollock’s sensational stage play of the same name, is a graphic and powerful story. As 1 auli, the war bride, Lilian Gish excels her past performances by a big margin. Such a role comes only once in a decade, and it is only natural that Miss Gish should he chosen to fill it. She plays the role of a young Austrian war bride, torn by the brutal call of war from the arms of the husband she clearly loves, watching her family and friends divided dn the heat of war hysteria, and hatreds bred of war propaganda. Then the spectator follows her dramatic romance with intense sympathy, knowing that Pauli represents the women who fight the. battles of the home front while their menfolk are in the trenches. How her baby is born unknow'n to its father, who is reported “missing,” how her father is dismissed from his post for pacifist teachings, thus reducing the family to abject poverty—how she fights for milk for her child and a few comforts for the sinking old man—finally to see her child, her only consolation, die in her arms in the starving city—and then struggle through at last to happiness with her husband, who had been one of “The Enemy”—all this is depicted with amazing artistry and realism. The. second attraction, “The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come,” is the picturization of John Fox, Jnr’s., story of the Kentucky mountains. Richard Barthelmess is seen in the role of “Chad,” the homeless mountain lad. OPERA HOUSE. “Love Hungry,” the delightful comedy romance showing at the Opera House next Saturday, is an unusual story of youth and of a reporter who writes letters of advice to the love-lorn—for newspapers. The busy editorial rooms of a metropolitan paper are shown as they really arc —not as usually pictured. Lawrence Grey is the ‘hack’ writer and Lois Moran the little chorus girl who tries to follow this advice by accepting attentions from a rich man. But since both are “love hungry” for each other, they find themselves in the situation of doing what reason tells them is right but which their hearts inform them is wrong. Much comedy Is supplied by Marjorie Bclbc in the rule of a gold-digging show girl.