THE PICTURE SHOWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume LIII, Issue 5536, 19 July 1920, Page 7

THE PICTURE SHOWS.

PALACE THEATRE

“The Career of Katherine Busli” crowded two theatres on Saturday night, and sent nearly two thousand persons away with praises on their lips on tlie excellence of the production and the vividness of the story. Catherine Calverts physical attractions were also the cause of much praise, and her acting was galvanic in its intensity. Catherine Calverts artistry will he well remembered. The storv of “The Career of Katherine Bush” is well known to readers, and the film follows the book closely. Katherine Bush is the daughter of a middle class English family; she tires of the monotonous drudge of typing for a monevleiuler, and decides to carve a career for herself. Her manner of i achieving her object was unorthodox. : She has many thrilling adventures, but she was one of those fortunate persons who, like a cat, falls on her feet, where most, would come an awful cropper. Eventually she achieves the object of her life, marriage to an English nobleman. Many of the scenes in the play are thrilling, and the staging is sumptuous in the extreme. No doubt ‘lhe Career of Katherine Bush” will be tlie means of attracting crowded houses tonight and to-morrow night at the Palace Theatre. Another stirring story, or quite a different class is “The Roaring Road” in which the great favorite Wallace Reid, is the .staged artist, This is primarily an automobile racing story, and some very thrilling automobile race scenes are introduced, notablv one against a fast railway express. This scene was most impressive. Hie love theme of the play is powerful, and forms part of the story, the interest is cumulative, and it is not until almost the final picture that the audience are relieved of the tension. “The Roaring Road” is one of the most pleasurable dramas that has been staged lately. Tlie supporting programme is a very good one, the Gazettes and other subjects being full of interest and beauty. Seats may be booked at Muirs. Mai> Pickford in “How Could You Jean will shortly be presented.

EVERYBODY’S. Sessile Rayaknwa and Tsuru . Aoki have appeared in many plays of compelling interest, but never perhaps m a drama of such appealing order as ‘ A Heart in Pawn,” which was screened at Everybody’s and the Opera House on Saturday evening. The story tells ot a young Japanese, married to Sana (lsiiru Aoki) a beautiful Japanese girl. He desires to go to America to study medicine In order to provide the necessary funds, Sada accepts employment as a geisha girl while her husband is studyin”' in America, and, on being insulted one day by a wealthy client of tlie tea shop where she is employed, sne kills him and is thrown into prison. Toyama, her husband., now a successful man of his profession, hears she J* dead, and grants the dying request oi his old master that, he marry his daughter. The two return to Japan and meet, the broken-hearted Sada. alio escapes from prison, hands over tier baby to their care, and then takes her life rather than be recaptured An additional attraction is Ovei tlie Garden Wall,” a happy original play featuring Bessie Love as the dau o litei of wealthy parents who jrroieTstodor overalls and work in the vegetable garden to be of some use with startling results. Seats may be booked at Miller . corner for to-night’s Greening.