ENTERTAINMENTS

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 4589, 15 May 1922, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS

“THE KID” AT THE LYCEUM. “Packed in every part,” and hundreds were actually turned away. That result at the Lyceum on Saturday afternoon and again at night, was a tribute to the popularity of Charlie Chaplin, whose masterpiece, “ The Kid,” had its initial screenings. The big 6-part comedy proved all that it was boosted to be, and laughter prevailed throughout the screening. The big play will be screened again tonight and finally to-morrow night, the box plans being at Barrett’s bookshop. It is a picture nobody should miss—it drives away the blues, it helps to make life worth farmer forget the slump. In addition, there will be a new 5-part photodrama, “A Perfect Crime,” an Associated Producers’ - feature, combining humour and pathos. The star, Monte Blue, has the role of Wally Griggs, a timid bank messenger, whom everyone despises for his stupidity. ■Suddenly, Wally tho. worm turns. He tells magnificent and thrilling yarns about things which,never’ happened oil land or sea. His ridiculous yarns are published, and ho wins a beautiful girl who had ignored him in liis honest days. Seo the sequol.

BUCK JONES AT EVERYBODY’S. At this place there was also ail over-flow attendance, numbers turned away. “Riding witb Death,” starring Charles (Buck) Jones, is the big attraction at the Oddfellows’ Hall tonight and to-morrow. The star is provided with plenty of scope for the display of his dash and daring. He appears in the role of a Texas ranger, who is called upon to live up to his name when he rides through a country ruled and terrorised by a crooked sheriff. “Dynamite” starts right in cleaning" ur> the situation. A 2000 ft comedy, “The Happy Pest, featuring A 1 St. John, will also be shown. There arc other supports. It i s full of thrills and laughter.