AMUSEMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 27 August 1920, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS

OPERA HOUSE. To-night Taylor Holmes, the personality star will be Pollard's picture attraction in ‘'Haggles of lied. trap. Funny enough as a book “Haggles of i'.ed Gap” ia a scream on the latest Essanay film, when the subject of the title is an English valet who changes masters as a result of a game of poker and is taken out to lied Gap somewhere is U.S.A. in the retinue of an American Senator, infinite possibilities for rib-tickling situations are opened up. “Buggies of lied Gap,” cams originally from the pen of Henry Leon Wilson, some the whose stories have been immensely successful as film adaptations. The story in br.ef tells of the adventures of Buggies, valet to the Hon. George A ane-Easing-well, brother of the Earl of Brimstead, who in pursuance of his earts to augment his slender resources by gambling the Hon. George encourters Senator Flood, an American Senator whose parvenu wife is eager to excoriate by some means or other the preb nan * tastes of the Senator who would sooner play draw-poker than vat, and Cousin Egbert who prefers store clothes to the latest from Bond Rrreot. The Senator loses no time in skinning the Hon. George who stakes his valet in the last game and loses. Buggies (Taylor Holmes) disconsolate is taken to lied Gap and after amusing experiences with Cousin Egbert (Frederick Burton) —amusing to the lookers on—becomes social mentor and caterer-in-chief to Red Gap society. On Sunday the management will present another of Sessue Hayakawa’s great pictures, “His Debt.” The second Njbw Zealand release of his own production. In “His Debt” Sessue Hayakawa gives us a masterly psychological study of the Japanese gamble and is supported bv Jane Novak and Wallace McDonald. MANOR'S HALL. BLACFTPW On Saturday at Blackball, Pollard’s picture attx-actions will be Sessue Hayakawa, the great Japanese actor in “His Debt,” a drama of breathless beauty and tremendous power, and on Sunday a double star wiy be presented when Sessue Hayakawa will be seen in another of his famous productions “A Heart in Pawn” and Taylor Holme in “Buggies of Bed Gap”, a deliciously humorous story of an English valet’s experience in America.

TOWN HALL. To be loved by four men and unable to make a choice is the complex situation confronting a beautiful girl in the William Fox morality play, “Why I Would .Not Marry,” which will be screened at the Peerless tonight and Saturday. The play is a unique presentation of the marriage problem. With the aid of the Mystic Globe the girl is able to peer into the future and visualise married life with each of the men. In consequence she is so horrified that she comes to fear men in general. The eternal triangle, blackmail, sacrificing of the soul, all the trials and tribulations of v.nhapny married life are brought into play, but the girl finds real happiness and the right man at last. Another 5reel feature “Mirandy Smiles,” starring Vivian Martin will also be shown. Billie Burke will be presented on Sunday. in a ere at film entitled “The Misleading Widow.”

METTRTCK’S HALL, BLACKBALL. ' -'A double star programme will be presented' in the above hall on Saturd>v evening. The first feature is “Miss Adventure,” a 5-act Fox film, starring Peggy Hyland, the other stfjr is “Peggy Does Her Da rudest” the Btest Metro star in which the irresistible star, May Allison, will be seen, is a glittering story of entiting youth —sparkling with love'and humour. It . tells the story of a young madcap who is the . despair of her conventional sister, the joy of her father, and the .i.onnoueror of a mere man who finds it impossible not to fall madly in love with her. How her tom-boy athletic training comes into vital use,-- and in .the erid makes , her the heroine of thp„, family, is thrillingly'shown, and the romance which runs through the scinti’l'vHhg play is of the appealing kind ■■ which goes to the heart 1 oT : the ■ ohs’efvf r. Sunday’s ait traction is, 'J.ay

produced by Cecil B. De Mille in six big reels’. The supports include “The Grey Seal.”