AMUSEMENTS.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18546, 23 November 1925, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS.

7 " —♦ — I PICTURE HOUSES. ; GREATER CRYSTAL PALACE. "DAYTIME "WIVES." JACK HOXIE IN "DON* DAREDEVIL." The late Osc»r Wilde once said that wives „ divided into, two classes; those who lived to love, and those who loved to live. The unselfish wife who lives to love, who i n ,pires her husband to do bigger and ' treater thinss, the wife who is the silent J Dower behind the throne of her husband's - luxury loving, i jßtterto wife who drinks, gambles, and. waiPi other women's husbands, who loves to lire quickly with no time lost, are painted vividly and in bold strokes in "Daytime Wives," the-great Robertson Cole special " nhetaplay which heads the . new programme It Greater Crystal Palace for this week, com-l-uelnj to day. Director Emile Chautard 'r hat shown both types of women on the t,' i«rten. He has taken the wife'who lives *> moment, whose craving- for excitement « «44 lo»« ioT the matl whirr of gambling, ?> drinking and dicing, is never satisfied, and t -itoini her in all her moods, finery, and 'wEJw her butterfly existence in all its A'ifLjjjgj'phases. On the other hand, he shows ?/ thft glorious young woman, unselfish, in-.-XJwouii cool, calm and collected, who ,S?J lUßdi besides the • man all day long, VißlMw ,0 shoulder, making his fight her ft'SSat contrast between the two types of woyfi&EEi )| shown sincerely and impartially in ri'SK&jrtat society photodrama. Chautard tfrSJ« that if it were not for the restraining ''iSSence of the simplo, enduring, intellectual fift"' woman on mankind, the luxurious, ilSi%,'Butterfl7 type of wife would soon have T&Uworld on a great decline. "Daytime 3lflP" '* P roscn ' e( J by an all-star cast, in- , ''»fljpiy Wyndham Standing, Grace Darmond, JSmvs Perdue, William Conklin, Edward "C'Stjuf, Katharine Lewis, Kenneth Gibson, «iS|T(Jhnstona Montt. ,;3jS*!Bik Hoxie loves and fights, rides and <slS£SrfM- his merry, happy-go-lucky way "'StSaw? n " 1C manv scenes of "Don DarefV»jgfji*' the second big picture on the new , «r»iramme This latest Hoxie play is set '/■ Mo > n the towns and mountains of ah im- ' aginary South American Republic in which taffaen, fiery senoritas and staid old senoras > in and out of picturesque scenes. , ( /flf(> Smith, who directed the production, has i&tti upon tho opportunities the story ifardfrd? to give it a beautiful and colourful tgjjiing. The picture itself is a vivid, ex- "' efting story of a six-foot American cattle man v aid Ms Wyoming cowboys who find themA uftM called upon to wage battle with a ''i atnd of outlaws led by a renegade AmeriV fjm t Romance plays its part in the midst f of rtn P'» T > ** coming in tho person of a ■ (heattttftlVSouth American girl which character { 'ii intiftreonated by Cathreen Calhoun. Her j ,Jtat«rPWtation of the part is splendid—impetulWfnot over-done. Duke R. Lee is the ~ l ,A»terie»n bad man who stops at nothing in i**"hit efforts to win the girl. ?' Betides the two main pictures there is a ""-, wry itotfny Century comedy and the latest $T latarnahonal News film. * Incidental to, and in conjunction with, the titicreening of the various motion pictures, the rfrywarld-fajnous Symphony Orchestra, under the conductorship of Mr Alfred J. present a magnificent musical proi? rffpiiiio,' which, includes tho following classier e»l aBl popular numbers:—Overture, "DunMarch" (Zamccuik) ; "CarJgrjuin'j^Bwct); suite, "Ucrainian" (Rubinf^jiaterr 1 -ballet music, "TMtter Pasman" (J. ttfensi); "Lcgendo No. 4" (Dvorak); *'Hermione". (Rondelle); "Andante" ,*, fljra Sonata, Op. 13 (Grieg); valsc, "Poupee" <p HPoldini); "A la Gavotte" (Schutt); "Stop %%V jKaufman). SK/ tm box plan is at Tho Bristol, or 6eats may A hat, reserved by telephoning Greater Crystal fefttiM,.No. 3758. fe ; yky \J STRAND THEATRE. IP r. * m . *&§?* t ."PLAYING WITH SOLLS." W& £' "THE TRAIL " JpSlhatK*' i« hoaded by "Plajing With starring Jacqueline Logan, Mary Olive Brook, and Joseph Swickard. Brook, taken from England to |||fae*fq| to play in "Chnstmo of the Ipfinflfof Heart," flays the role of Mathew |ps»!*j! cynical, unfeeling husband and father. Sp|eflo .Bennett plays the role of Amy Dale, Hpoe mother and wife, who cares for nothing Split to/deep her youth. She is, in a great ■Hmeacqxe, to blame for Dale's (cynicism. SrTheir.eoa is played by William Collier, jun. W Thft-jtory has W do with tho utter loneliT boy feels from the time his I laojSif (when she eoparates from the father) tm» lam in % hoys' school in France until! enough to fall in love—and the these empty years not only upon the youth coming into man's estate, but the father end mother as well. Mary Astor is very 1 sweet and charming as tho little jprl with whom young Collier falls in love,! "while J«equeluie Logan, as a fascinating and vivacious cabaret danetir in a, Paris, cafo, glv«» perhaps tho finest portrayal of ;■ her f career. ' \ v "Hie Burning Trail," featuring Win. Des-' % wrtdr'The Fighting Ringer" (Ep, 5), and; «tei«dy are also, shown. ( ■/.'', K-.S, GRAND THEATRE. ~ '; ,,THE WHIirE SISTER" the Grand Theatre, andhfi every other vay, "The of, its kind over sereened in S^^^"^-' H' s an e S la of the screen, it S^^^J l W* n reels Directed by the master Henry King, "The White Sister" |fllfiSffi!& n adapted to the screen from the and famous novel of tho same Marion Crawford, and it glorithe unquestionable charm gfiaffliptiydf.. the demure Lilian Gish She is one who could havo carried the |HmWepfiMitfdn& of the greatest personalities gSJfl&the; speaking stage to the silver sheet as in "The White Sister." Alone, sho made , "The Birth of a Nation," m|H]H|ianß~ of tho Storm," and . "Way Down HgMjjKj&Hßeverrtd-be-forgotten masterpieces all. E&jsfsnXr It is a lave romance, beautifully sad. a striking spiritual quality, which Rgnipilly'-tlends to the picture a pronounced jmßHgMTioug distinction, but which also proves TBT y' effective in that it leaves sweet BHBBBteteii Very delightful,is the prologuo to Sister." Miss Olga Wacked, acby .little Joan Hughes . and other HfflEPj™ pupils of Miss Lucy- Cowan, enacts ■HKJfSf. akiir and charm.