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Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 171, 7 April 1923, Page 17

Mr. Joliffe, censor of cinematograph films, in conversation with a prominent picture man in Wellington the other day, stated that the past week had completed the thirtieth million feet o film censored in New Zealand. This dates back to six and a-half years ago,” stated Mr. Joliffe, and represents sixty thousand miles ot film I

“My Wild Irish Rose,” a picture the very name of whicn will appeal to all descendants of Shamrock Isle, will be shown in Wellington soon, the story is an adaptation from the worldfamous melodrama, The Shaughraun,” by Dion Boucicault, the wellknown Irish playwright, actor,, and manager. It tells of life ini Enn m the early years of Queen Victoria s reign.

Katherine MacDonald offers ub her latest picture, “White Shoulders.” The story points the moral that ambitious parents who wish to sell their daughters to the highest bidders are liable to discover that the said daughters have wills of their own.

“Her Mad Bargain,” Anita Stewart’s next offering, presents the star in the role of a girl of wealth and station who suddenly finds herself deprived of every comfort and lacking in the practical ways of making her own way in the world.

“Robin Hood,” a story that has been popular for generations, has been brought to the screen under the banner of the United Artists. The picture is to be screened in Wellington shortly and is declared to be one of the most costly productions ever filmed. Some of the settings true in detail to the days of chivalry, when knighthood was in flower, must have cost money. Douglas Fairbanks is cast as the Archer of Sherwood Forest.

A breakaway from “Wild Westerns” and “Triangle Tangles” is “0* the High Seas,” the star feature of the current programme at Shortt’s Theatre. Here Dorothy Dalton, the star, is considered to do some very good work She is supported by Rudolph Valentino. The second feature. “Anna Ascends.’ switches the beholders back to the land—to the New York underworld.

Thus Lady Diana Manners, or, rather, Lady Duff Cooper, her married name, on cigarette-smoking for women; "Moderate smoking doesn’t hurt anybody, but inhaling is slow poison, When you pass the dozen.mark, cigar-ette-smoking becomes a vice, and it is woman’s nature to bo immoderate in her vices.”

“L’Atlantide,” crowned by the Literary Academv of France, is a brilliant work of fiction. The story comes to the screen under the title of “Missing Husbands” and is listed.among the special attractions showing in Wellington next week. The cast is all French and in Stacia Napierkowska a new arid a remarkable beauty comes to th>i screen.

The old story of mother-love provides the theme for the Fox film “Silver Wings,” now screening at the Princess. Mary Carr, as the appealing little mother of the play, here repeats the excellent character work which was a feature of “Over the Hill.”

The many phases of the life of the girl of to-day are shown in “It Isn’t Being Done This Season,” Corinne Griffiths’s latest picture. It is the story of a young girl who went into the world under the belief that no man was to be trusted. The code may be true enough —for the cynics—but we are not all cynics, at least, not so with the heroine of this story, so she was destined to learn —all men are not liars.

Mr. Ronald Riley, of the Allen Doone Company, who purveys villainy in its most sinister form, has strong literary leanings, his ultimate goal being dramatic authorship. Already he has completed several plays, one of which is now on its way to be submitted for the approval of Sir J. Martin Harvey. Several of Mr. Riley’s shorter efforts in the way of dramatic vaudeville sketches have met with much success in Australia.

The New York “Herald” wrote the following concerning “Theodora,” a Goldwyn super-attraction to be released in New York some time in 1923: “Founded on Victorian Sardou’s drama of ancient Byzantium, later called Constantinople, the picture was bound to have crafty dramatic workmanship in its story of the Empress Theodora, who reigned with Emperor Justinian in the sixth century. It has stupendous settings, far excelling anything seen before, with the possible exception of “The Fall of Babylon.”

An unusual screen comedy now showing at the Queen’s is “Lombard, Ltd.,” starring Bert Lytell, who appears in the difficult role of a very impractical business man. The play itself is said to be an amusing satire.

The wilds of Kentucky form the background for a virile drama, “Go Straight,” now showing at Eketahuna. Frank Mayo does some good acting in the role of the town’s fighting parson, Keith Rollins.

The old story motif, rural simplicity versus city artificialities, is used in “Broadway Rose/’ starring Mae Murray, at the Paramount and Artcraft Theatres this week. Quite a good picture.

In “Smilin’ Thru” Miss Talmadgo is said to have reached. the supreme achievement of her genius. Here she has an opera role, the first she has had, and it gives her the supreme limit of rein in the revelation of her emotional qualities. Wyndham Standing and Harrison. Ford are in tho cast.

Miss Mabel Waters, who for years was associated with Tivoli productions, married the man of her choice in Melbourne last week. The lucky man is Captain J. A. Carrodus. Miss Waters was one of the most beautiful girls who ever graced the Sydney stage. Mabel was always held up to other •girls in the company as the model of neatness and tidiness, the wardrobe mistress declaring her clothes lasted twice as long as anyone else’s. Chief bridesmaid at the wedding was clever Peggy Peate, whose voice has not been heard since Vera Pearce days.