AMUSEMENTS.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17702, 2 March 1923, Page 10

AMUSEMENTS.

! PICTURE HOUSES. ! STRAND THEATRE. j To-day .'will mark the final screenings of I {lie excellent programme at- the Strand j Theatre. : •■bli'li'S DARX.FUN'NT." | The new programme to-morrow will be ! headed by Viola Dana, in "Life's Dani j Funny.'' "Bohemia," said tk» late James Hunekor. "is not a State of the soul, its j a stale of tho pocket-book." It U the ! state in -which Zoe Robert and Clay WarI v.'iek live; a str.te in which the pocket-book lis always flat. Horn Bohemian both, they | have consecrated their lives to art. They ; "starve, feast, despair"—and dream of the I chateaux in Spain that they will purchase •when recognition cotuss. Meanwhile they can't pay their bills. Clay is ousted irom liis studio by a landlady v/ho faiis to see the lojfic of permitting a vcung man to spend his days in painting stuff that nobody buys. Sick of soul, he wunder-i tie streets. A hit of music arouses Clay Warwick to o sense of spiritual ive&lth. Aa ho passes a house he hears a violin played superbly. He obtains a room there, aud listens hungrily to play that, is food and drink to him. But, one doy the violin stops suddenly. There are strangled sobs. OS:sy goes to the room, where he hears the sobbing, and he Hnds a pretty little girl huddled on a couch weeping in bla-rk despair. It is Zoe Robert, a French girl who has come to Xew York high in hope of a hearing. _ Her chance has ccine, sha is signed to give a concert, but her money has given out. and she has no gown fit to wear. Clay has materials that his models used in the past, and he designs a gown for Zoo to be made from those materials, and tho exquisite creation helps considerably towards the success of Zoe's debut. She makes a great many friends, and among them ia a prima donna, who, leaving on a tour, asks Zoo to take caro of the apartment while she was gone. Zoe, excited by the new change in fortune, has her worldly ambitions stirred. She thinks that Clay is a genius and urges him into partnership in making gowns that will express the personality of the wearers. Zoo recklessly orders the most expensive materials, charging them to the prima donna's account. After a precarious existence, full of fun and trouble Zoo gains a sensational triumph, and with Clay sho bids farewell to Bohemia, and embarks on a life-long matrimonial cruise. Supporting tho big feature will be Marion Davies' in a Paramount feature, "Bride's Play," a comedy, and a Topical film. QUEEN'S THEATRE. To-night will bo the final screening of the current programme at tha Queen's Theatre. "Calvert's Valley" ia the outstanding feature which has John Gilbert aa ita star. The remainder of tho programme is of a high order. '•YOSBMITE TRAIL" TO-MORROW. Tho foaturo to be screened commencing tomorrow, is tho J?ox production, "Tho iosemite 'J.rai.l," starring Dustio JParnum,' who iias scored many bucccsses on botn stage and screen, Aa ita namo indicates, • tho etoiy occurs in* tho Yosemito Valley. This background lends itself admirabiy for the excellent photography of the film. The picture is said to be tilled with exciting action that ia sustained from beginning to end. The majestic grandeur of iho \osemite is used by the director to create tho impression of hugeness and power. So woll has this been done, according to .report, that the characters seem to stand forth like primitive giants who struggle for mastery. This is tho eort of photoplay in. which Dtistin Farnum excels and, judging from his previous work, it should prove interesting entertainment. The added attraction will bo a drama full of action and hair-raising experiences, entitled "Puidin' Wild," It is the latest Universal production, and stars Hoot Qibson. Also on the programme will bo "Wild Women and Tame Lions," a Sunshine comedy. The last bit one-episode of "Fantomas," and the Fox News complete this highly entertaining programme. GRAND THEATRE. The Grand Theatre management is presenting, this week, a pleasing combination Qf vaudevillo and picturos, both being of ahigh -standard. The illusion, sawing through a woman, is presentod by P. T. Solbit, who afterwards explains to his audience how the act ia dono. Lloyd Hughes and Madge Bellamy arc the clover stars of "Ijovb Never Dios," which tells of the stormy romance of two young< people in a small American town. There, is action aplenty, two of the big scenes being the crashing of an express train over a broken bridge, and the carrying of two men over a cataract.. Thero are several good supporting subjects, and the Grand Orchestra, under Miss Agnes Shearsby, A.T.0.L., plays bright selections. The programme will ba repeated for the last timo to-day. RODOLPH VALENTINO IN "STOLEN MOMENTS." The present programme at the Grand, headed by "Love Never Dios," will be screened lor the last time-to-night. -Commencing to-morrow a new programme of outstanding merit will be screened, at the head of which Bodolph Valentino is starred in "Stolen Moments." Bodolph's rise to international fame .as a film star has been the most metoorio on record, and in the role of the man who.fascinates women as a class, he is without parallel. In "Stolen Moments" he portrays a. man who, in pursuit of hie desires, spares no efforts, and is careless of scruple. Opposite to him •as his victim, plays a new Btar of compelling beauty, Marguerite Namara. She is infatulated by a South American novelist, and goes to hie home without letting her guardian know. While there she writes an avowal of love in a book given to her by the novelist, and signs her namo to it. The girl lives with her guardian and his mother. He has long loved her, but has not spoken. Finding that he must return to South America, the novelist asks the girl to go with him. She consents, and steals away from a party to join him. When «he gets to his house she shows him her mother's wedding ring, and asks' permission to uee it when they are married. He laughs at her suggestion of a wedding, and she leaves him in disgust. Some time later she becomes the wife of her guardian. The novelist returns and so works on her fears that sho- determines to got the book at any cost. The novelist tells her she must come to his house for it. She goes, the man attacks her, and she strikes him down with a. knife she picks up from the table. Securing the book, ehe hurries home. Her husband is the x prosecuting attorney, and she learns that the novelist is dead. It turns out, however, that she did not kill him. That was done by the brother of a country woman of the novelist's whom he had'wronged. The j .brother entered the house just as the novelist was reviving from the effects of the blow given him by the prosecuting attorney's wife, and killed him. The Pioneer Film Corpora- I tion have produoed .a classio in this great drama. The last word in scenio embellishment, a .really remarkable story, lavish ros- . tumes, and nettings have all gone into this notable addition to the art of tho silent play. ' ' I EVERYBODY'S THEATRE. The Wallace Eoid-Eloie Ferguson season at Everybody's ib drawing to a close, and to date they have been great attractions. This popular duo is seen this week in a screen adaptation of George du Maurier'e "Peter Ibbetoon," shown as "Forever," but, in any case, the title does not matter much, for the production is a noteworthv one. Scenically, photographically, anil histrionically, the picture has had few peers while the story 1b of such depth that it holds tho interest right through. A big supporting comedy gives unalloyed pleasure, and the smaller films of the programme are of interest. LIBERTY THEATRE. A clever child, provide! ho is not too precocious, la a delight in any place, and on the screen such it one is invariably popular, Jackie Ooejran, well known in his partnership with Charlie Chaplin is just such a one, and he has been delighting spectators ot tho Liberty Theatre this week in a concoction called "Trouble." The picture is pleasantly Introduced by character work by Master JBert Goedland, Today will see the final screening of the programme, GREATER CRYSTAL PALACE. One of the fluent programmes eves- shewn »* Greater Crystal Palace is being eereened this week. The headliner is a picture I?!" 0 " f Charlotte Bronte's famous book. . jMl , e . ay 16 -" * Hugo Baflin produotien, in which Mabel Ballin In tha name part I fr TOB . B D W6n oerfal performance. "Another ! •Man s Hhoes" is a sterling comedy, from the i " 0T t ßi j>y Victor Bridges, and the star, Her, ! pert Rawlinson, adds something more to his wreath of laurels. There are f "v* ral entertaining supporting Ainu, While Mr A. J. Buna's orchestra ffifes a particularly fi n( j proMamme of Wngio. Tha same attractions will be offered to-Sav.