AMUSEMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 24 February 1920, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS

OPERA HOUSE. On Wednesday night Pollard’s will present their usual Wednesday star attraction. Eor this Wednesday night only, the First National’s big feature play ‘‘A Midnight Romance” starring the charming artist Anita Stewart, will be the star attraction. Three women are responsible for' “A Midnight Romance” Marion Orth is lire author, Lois Weber, the director and Anita Stewart tire star. Anita Stewart in ‘ - A Midnight Romance” plays the part of a mysterious beauty, one of the survivors of a shipwreck, who, in spite of her charm, claims to be but a common servant. Slipping away from the hotel late ono night she meets wealthy Roger Sloan while enjoying a lone dip in the surf. Then she disappears. He finds her again at his hotel, clad in shimmering silks. Then trouble starts, crooks, blackmailers, police, a real thriller, a beauty too. TOWN HALL. To-morrow will see a big Town Hall programme of three stars. The first is a five-reel Artcraft “The Goat” featuring the world’s greatest acrobatic comedian, Fred Stone. Come and see the motion picture studio from “morning to night.” The lid is removed, so that you can see the scenes behind tne scenes. Chuck McCarthy, __ structural steel worker wants to become a movie actor after working on a, steel job at a motion picture studio. The pet mbnkey of Bijou Lamar, movie queen, escapes and climbs to the top of the steel work, and is rescued, by Chuck. Molly O’Connors returns his ring, Chuck gets a job as extra, does hazardous stunts, takes the leading man’s place, and is injured. The leading man is taken to a hospital to continue the deception, while Chuck goes home. The leading man is lionised and Chuck is forgotten. Flis illusions vanish. He and Molly are reconciled, and Chuck is compensated for his injuries. Then a happy ending follows. The Paramount Mack Sennett two-reel scream “The Village .Smith” .and “The Further Adventures of Stingaree” will also be shown. The big feature on Thursday is a Paramount six-reel special “My Cousin,” featuring the world’s greatest tenor Enrico Caruso.- In this —his first appearance on the screen —Caruso takes a double role. In one minute he is a famous. Metropolitan tenor, at the next he is a poor sculptor. In the second characor he lias to fall in love with his model—‘some’ model, hoys —and believe us Tnrico Caruso makes love to her as he would to some great opera belle in the glare of the footlights beneath the Diamond ,Ho>se-shoe at ? tho Metropolitan Opera House in New York. Caruso is as great an actor as a singer, brimful of vitality infectiously hajpy. See him in “My Cousin. “DAMAGED GOODS.” Two sessions of the great play “Dam-, aged Goods” will bo given in tho Opera House, Greymoutn commencing to-night, Tuesday, when, acting under the orders,of the censor, men only will be' admitted. The session for Women only will be given to-morrow Wednesday afternoon at 3 p.m. By a general consensus of the opinions of men of high standing in the nobler professions this play is admitted to bo not only powerful drama, but also the missive conveying a-great social lesson. Thus Major-General Antil, G.8.,G.M.G., has stated: “In my opinion this is the most instructive and illuminative picture of its kind I have seen. I consider that ’not only parents but adolescents should-see it. The subject is oue which concerns the world s mankind so deeply that, "it should be fought openly, like consumption and other dread diseases, and not kept secret from the desire to hide it from the public.” And, again, the Rev. Dr. Simon states: “If I could preach a sermon one-tenth as powerful, as convincing, as far-reaching, and as helpful os this picture must be, I would consider that 1. had achieved the triumph of my life.” Bneux undoubtedly sets out on a big mission to break asunder in the social and working life of the masses those efforts, to stifle the true state of the scourge upon which the story is constructed. Brieux’s book of Bernard Shaw’s handling startled the world as did the play, but the

message carried, and the world-wide movements to check the spread of the evils ' is' progressing ;■ the quack is being suppressed, and district clinics are claimed to be doing great good in this and other young countries. Seats are on reserve at the Bristol.

S pRAND REVUE. Greymouth as it will be, some years hence, will be seen at the Opera House on Thursday evening* next, in the Revue entitled “Greymouth Up-to-date.” On this occasion a grand complimentary entertainment is being tendered to Mr. F. Restieaux- (who is leaving Ibis week for h* a future home in Queensland) by JVL T. Pollard and the music lovers of Greymouth. Ihe Revue consists of a pot-pourri of the latest and brighest songs, snappy dialogue, and local gags welded together into a connected story which runs at express speed from the rise to the fall of the final curtain. Final rehearsals are being held now under the guiding hand of "Mr. Tom Pollard, which ensures a finished performance. The plan is now open at the Bristol (Phone 261) and is rapidly filling.