AMUSEMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 March 1921, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

OPERA HOUSE. “In Old Kentucky” is the most widely known melodrama on the speaking stage and Marshall Neilan has made it one of the greatest of sporting pictures ever screened. It is a mammoth production, a marvellous spectacle and a thriller from start to finish .Anita Stewart is seen at her best in “In Old Kentucky” and it can be said in all fairness that to see and know Anita Stewart at her best is to see her as the whimsical hardriding waif from the Kentucky Hills. As • a sporting drama “In Old Kentucky is one of the most elaborate and entertaining pictures released this year. Masterful production on a large scale and a caste of outstanding excellence will help to make it one if the big successes of 1920. Graphic and colourful as the scenes are, they contain enough material for three of four big pictures, and needless to say there is not a dull or idle moment throughout. As a spectacle alone it is worth while and when you add rapid action, superlative direction, magnificent scenes, and hundreds of actors both human and equine, something out of the or-

linary may be expected. TOWN HALL. Cecil B. de Mille’s Royalty Masterpiece “Male and Female” will be the grand attraction at the Peerless in the Town Hall to-night. This magnificent production has been adapted from Sir James M. Barrie’s famous play “The Ulmirable Crichton.” The motion picture is a triumph o,f screencraft. Li his manner the audience meets Lady Lasenby, “who is to learn that hands 're not only to be manicured but to work with, heads not only to be dressed but to think with—hearts not only to beat ,but to love with.” Gloria Swanson is Lady Mary. The subtitles introducing the characters portrayed by Thomas Mciglian, Raymond Hatton, Theodore Roberts, Lila Leo and Robert Cain .are equally descriptive preserving much of the wittv philosophy that characterises Barrie’s work. . Cecil B. de Mille’s whole his-

tory in association with the motion picture has been a success. Photoplays as “Joan the Woman,” “The Whlspe.ing Chorus,” “The Squaw Man,” “Don’t. Chancre your Husband,” and “For Better, For Worse,” produced in that order are screen classics. But all the celebrated I’aramount-Artcraft producer’s previous achievements have been completely eclipsed by his" latest contribution, “Male and Female.” This tremendous photoplay is undoub tedly the consummation of the great producer’s genius. It sets a new standard in motion picture production and although De Mille should produce many big pictures in the future it seems hardly possible that his work in ‘Male and Female” could be im proved upon. The usual prices will be charged. “THE GREAT GAME.” The New Zealand “Herald” A tick

land says: —“For those who like a sporting picture with a good horserace, and a. stirring fight, the English film “The Great Game” which drew record attendances to all sessions on Saturday, provides all the essentials of a typical Nat Gould story. The famous boxer Bombardier Wells makes an admirable hero, for his line physique and clean fighting methods provide r striking contrast to the underhand tricks employed by his enemies. „ He is seen as the son of a. wealthy aristocrat, who objects to him marrying an actress. The villain contrives, by bribes and trickery, to cause the hero’s horse to lose the Derby. The shock kills the father, and the son fights his way to fame and fortune. The English Derby is shown, ami a good six-round fight in which Wells accounts for his man with a knockout in the sixth round, and subsequently wins the lady of his choice.” “The Great Game” will be screened at the Town Hall next Friday and Saturday for positively two nights only. The box plan is now open at Kilgour’s where a good demand for seats has already set in.