AMUSEMENTS.

Greymouth Evening Star, 25 June 1923, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS.

“ONE WEEK OF LOVE.” There is something positively nig and line in "One Wee.K of Love,” starring Elaine Tiammerstein and Conway Tearle, which is to be. shown at a special matinee in the Opera House tnis afternoon and again to-night ana to-morrow night. Thrills and pathos combine to carry away ■ the onlooker into other magic realms, aid when the 'end comes, it is with a gasp that he or she realises his. pr her whereabouts. The, “Great Out-of-Doors” is the scene of action in this big photoplay from the Selznick (Studios. Miss Tiammerstein, who flies her own ’plane, crashes, when she is racing one uf her numerous admirers, but she falls into the kind hands of Conway Tearle who is one of the bad men of the Bad Lands. He is human, however, and the climax of the picture is best witnessed. Beth Wynne, idol of Broadway’s fast set — running a continual race with convention, ever seeking to create, iresh scandal to shock Mrs Grundy, challenged Franklin Fraser to a race, in the air. It was the biggest race «>i all—for if he won she promised to become his wife. And you’ll experience

the greatest sensation in years, as you watch, with bated breath, a thundering express train, freighted with human lives, crash over the broken suspension bridge into the flood-swollen rapids below. Skipper Francis, who is touring with this big special feature, will sing the latest song “One Week of Love,” during the screening. It is certainly a novelty for a composer to sing his own songs, and such has been the case for several years with Skipper Francis who is now singing his own song, “One Week of Love,” specially dedicated to Miss Kammerstein, the leading actress in the picture of that title. Skipper Francis composed among other songs “Australia Will Be There,” which broke all records for a song published in the Dominions. On Wednesday and Thursday the

picture will be, screened at Hokitika and Blackball on Friday. TOWN HALL. William Russell, in “A Self-made Man,” will be shown at the Town Hall to-night for the last time. Marie Corelli.—Youth, the heyday of life, the period of ambition, struggle and achievement —how quickly it vanishes! This universal experience was never so graphically dramatised as in the photoplay, "The. I’oung Diana,” starring Alarion Davies,

which will be shown at the Town Hall on Wednesday. Diana May had been a beautiful and wealthy society girl whose only drawback to a happy life was a vulgar ‘‘nouveau riche” father. Through the love, of Richard Cleeve, however life looms up before her joyously. Not I'or long, though. She loses Richard and her existence (urns to a fretful, agonising tedium. She loses her personal charm and there seems to be nothing left. One day she reads in a newspaper of a wonderful elixir of life,, discovered by

a mysterious alchemist in Switzerland. She goes to him. She emerges a wonderful beauty and makes her debut in all the fashionable capitals of Europe. Did she win happiness? The photoplay will answer. This picture, made

from the novel by Marie Corelli, was produced under the expert direction of ’’mi't Capellani and Robert) G. Vignola.