AMUSEMENTS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18266, 27 December 1924, Page 14

AMUSEMENTS.

PICTURE HOUSES.

LIBERTY THEATRE.

"DADDIES" AND "TH3 BRUTE piaster." "Daddks'' is the tit-I« of the "Warner Brothers' release, which is to head the new programmes at the Liberty Theatre to-day. The story was adapted from the David Bcliflco play of that name, and featured in the cast are Mae Marsh and Harry Myers. Bachelor lifo furnishes the motive power for "Daddies." It is the etory of five Yilo men who, while yet in college, form a bachelors' club. Each agrees not to marry unless ho first pays a, five thousand dollar resignation too to the club. The S i°7 opens with the annual banquet of tho clua ; A suggestion is adopted at this banquet which, unbeknown to the members, signs , the club's death warrant. Each memoer agrees to adopt a war orphan. Later ono member finds out his "orphan" is a beautiful girl seventeen years old. Another nnas has "orphan" to be -triplets. Then the bachelors each learn that adopting orphans i<3 an eaßy matter, but looking after them is a much different thing. The attempts of the foster fathers to look after their charges givo rise to eome exquisite earned} intermingled with real heart interest. Of course, the inevitable happens. Each finds with the exception of tie one who adopted the seventeen year old orphan, that childraising requires the gentle hand of a mother. They had all fallen so deeply m love with the respective children that it seamed easier to & mother than lose Iho child. In the case of the bachelor who adopted the young lady, it is a different story. But in the end everything is solved by "all five getting married and providing nice 'homes and good parents forr a bunch of promising youngsters. Tho supporting cast includes Claudo Gillingwater, Croufurd Kent, Claire Adams, Williard Louis, Boyce CoornVi, Goorgio Woodthorpc, Otto Hoffman, Priscilla Dean Moran, De Briao t\viH3, King Evors, and Mitly Davenport. Hobart Baswcrt-h is Iho star in the second attraction, "Tho Brute Jlastor,' with Anna Q. Nilsson, who- has often been called the screen's most beautiful blonde, playing opposite him. The etory is by Mrs Jnck London, and seldom has Bosworth had one that so ideally fits him. Ho plays the role of a hard-fighting, brutal domineering sea captain, who juled his ;little world by right of might until a beautiful girl came along. She and feared him, and showed, it. They ■ are cast aslioro by the burning of iheir ship, on an island inhabited by .friendly South Sea, Islanders, and here the stoiy reaches a dramatic climax. There is plenty of uction, some fine sea views, and the firo scenes on tho shin have seldom been equalled. Tho suiroovts will include a Roach-Pallie comedy, "Sold at Auction," featuring Snub Pollard ia the role of an auctioneer. Also with its -usual enterprise the management announce a sr.ecial interest film, showing the arrival and reception in "Wellington of New Zealand's new Governor-General. The L-iberiy Quality Orchestra under Mr Howard Moody, will play an attractive musical programme. EVERYBODY'S THEATRE. "IN HOLLYWOOD WITH POTASH AND PERLMUTTER." "TARNISH." STARRING- MAT McAVOY AND NORMAN KERRY. Laughs, thrills-, an cccasiona-l sob, and more laughs are the ingredients that make "In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter," tho star attraction at Everybody's Theatre- next week, commencing at the •matinee on Monday, one of the most entertaining and pleasing First National pictures of the year. In this second screen venture of the famous partners, Abe and Mawruss go into tho motion picture business, and_jt is tho complications that result from, their attempts to produce a picture starring a vampire that produces the hilariously funny comedy situations. Of course tho wives of tho partners do not approve of tho Tamp idea, nor ia the situation simplified when tho bank refuses to extend more credit at a critical moment. The intense loyalty of one partner for another prompts Abo to take a -wild automobile ride to save Mawruss, and Director Alfred E. Green has packed into this ride thrills galore. And every thrill ends in ft laugh! Samuel Goldwyn, who produced "In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter," contributed materially to' the success of this picture when he secured tho services of Montague Glass, creator cf the original characters, to write tho brilliantly humorous titles - which distinguish thi3 picture. Much credit- is also due to Prance® Marion for her splendidly constructed screen play, which she adapted from Glass's successful play, "Business Before Pleasure." Alexander Carr, who will bo remembered by theatregoers for his excellent characterisation in the previous Potash jyKLPerlmutter picture, and George Sidnay, veteran stage star, head the distinguished cast of this production. Vera Gordon, who aho plaved in the first screen venture of the partners, again plays "Rosie." Betty Blvthe is the appealing vampire around whom the story centres, and tho cask includes: Bells Bennett, Charles Meredith, Dpvid Butler, Anders Randolf, Cyril Ring, and Lilian Hacket. Although tbe pivotal situation in fche George Fitzmaurice production, "Tarnish," tho Broadway stage success sponsored by .jamuel Goldwyn through First National Pictures, reveals a distressing, but all too true, pbaso of young- men and women, the subject has been treated with a skill that , defies description. "Tarnish" will be shown as the supporting attraction. Briefly, the photodrnma lays bare the pa3t of a young man who is on the verge of matrimony. Jt, tells a story -of genuine vitality, realistic, convincing, of the tragedy that threatens voung lovq when the past, intrudes upon tho blissful present. In the mesh of the revelation i 3 caught a- young deeigni-nr; manicurist-, a sweet, innocent girl, and a asrious, romantic youth. Upon this premise the success of the stago play, "Tarnish," has been built, and it has astounded and entertained thousands of theatregoers. There is also -some stirring domestic by-pl-ay furnished bv the manicurist, who not only provides the hero a past, but also engages in nhilandering with the heroine's foolish father" A cast ol popular screen players interpret the leadiii"roles in "Tarnish." These include: Mario Prevost, May McAvoy, Ronald Colman, Norman Kerry, Harry Myers, Priscilla, Bonner Albert Gran, £nd Mrs Russ WliytaJl. A brilliant programme will be given, by Everybodv's Select Orchestra, under th" of Mr W. J. Bellingham" Among tho items are the following:—Overture, "Under Orders" (Glu»ua)entracte "Hitch "hour Waggon to a "sunbeam tFilder). As usual, reserved seals may be secured either at The Bristol or by telephoning number 492 J. STRAND THEATRE. "THE THRILL CHASER" AND "HIS MYSTERY GIRL." "The Thrill Chaser, ' starring Hoot- Gibson, heads the bill at the Strand Theatre to-dav. Omar K. Jenkins reads Omar Kahyyam, but he does not know what it is all about until he is sitting ono day under a tree on tbe ranch and "Thou" walks around the tree. "Thou" in this case is a girl who has walked too far from her "stalled" train. Omar hops on a horso and lifts her up on it whilst moving. Then Omar goes to the moyi?s, where such feats of horsemanship will be appreciated—at three thousand a week. He gets three dollars a day and ruins some of the best scenes Hobart Henley and King Baggot ever directed, or Mary Philbin, Laura La Plantc, Norman Kerry or Reginald Denny ever plaved in - . From the stunt ot "doubling" for a timuj star he goes to the fasier adventure of "doubling" for a sheik in Arabia. There hk "Thou" is the important factor in as thick a plot as a bunch of sheiks ever eoneociod to tangle themselves in. But •'lhou' is a very appreciative Arabian sheikesi and Omar is not all alone in his battle. The second feature is Herbert Rawin "His Mystery Girl." Other films are "The Caddy" (Buddy Messinger comedy). "The Ghost City' (Ep. 14) and International News.