AMUSEMENTS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18014, 5 March 1924, Page 10

AMUSEMENTS.

PICTURE HOUSES. GREATER CRYSTAL PALACE. The Tully Sisters are the principal attraction on the bill at Greater Crystal Palace. This quartette of charmingly-gowned girls plav saxophones with splendid effect. Milton Brooks and Alma, favourite entertainers, play the violin and piano and tne girl can also sing. The star movie portion of the bill is The Kid." with Hoot Gibson in the leading role. Gibson first came to the screen as a stuni artist," #it he has since proved he is « actor when given the opportunity. Ihe symphony Orchestra, under Mr A. Bunz, plays some fine music. EVERYBODY'S THEATRE. J In "The Town that Forgot God," this week's lieadliner at Everybody's Theatre, the main theme is the unrelieved selfishness and self-seeking of some of the inhabitants of the small town of Riverdale. Whatever may be thought of the theology, there can be no question as to the terrific realism ot tne deluge that descends on the town as a v1 ? 1 " tation upon it for the sins of some of its people. "The Monkey's Paw" is the best of the supports. Under Mr W. J. BeiiinfC* ham, tho Select Orchestra producos tuneJUl melodies. * STRAND THEATRE. The Strand Theatre is showing another excellent programme of pictures this week. Hoot Gibson has the .leading role'in "Bandits Beware." and Priscilla Dean, in The Flame of Life," a story of a young girl s battle for existence in a coal-mining village. "Horse Tears," a hilarious comedy; another exciting chapter of "The Oregon Trail," and an International News constitute tho supporting programme. GRAND THEATRE. "The Man They Could Not Hang," a completely new film version of the remarkable life story of John Lee, heads the current programme of motion pictures at the Grand Theatre. It is* a brand new production, showing scenes photographed in tho Torbay district, Mid-Devon. The picture is replete with pathetic incidents, relieved here and there with a touch of humour; the humorous portion being chiefly in John Lee s boyhood days, while among the pathetic parts are those which show the unswerving loyalty of his fiancee and the faith of his aged mother in her belief in the innocence of her son —a belief which she lived to see realised. "Piccadilly Jim," featuring Owen Moore, is another fine film. QUEEN'S THEATRE. "You Can't Fool Your Wife" is the big Paramount attraction at the Queen's Theatre this lyeek. There are some spectacular scenes in the picture, one of the best being the midnight bathing party, in which Neptune is seen to rise from a bath, and, after bidding the .guests to enter the water, sinks beneath the surface to his submarine kingdom, an orgy of natatorial sport, following I Two exceptionally good comedy films, "Gift o' Gab" and "The Pest," are on the bill, end are responsible for much fun. LIBERTY THEATRE. / "Penrod and Sam," the big picture at the Liberty, is likely to eclipse all other films of. boy life. Booth Tarkington, the author ot the delightful book, has won for himself a certain place in literature for his fine yarns, of boys and boyish escapades. He knows the heart and soul of a boy af well as Mark Twain, and he can tell a story nearly as well. The second big picture—"The Huntress"—takes one to ft different world. Colleen Moore, who takes the leading role, is a "huntress" —for a husbaftd. The charming young artist has to play a part which | fits her like a glove.