PALACE THEATRE.

Gisborne Times, Volume LV, Issue 6154, 11 August 1921, Page 6

PALACE THEATRE.

THREE DRAMATIC PICTURES

The three-feature programme presented at the Palace Theatre last night kept the large audience in a state of delightful enjoyment till tho final scene of the last romantic story. Billie Burke, the exquisite Paramount star, in “The Frisky Mrs. Johnson,” is probably the headliner. It is the romance of an English Avoman in Paris during the carnival season. She is a AA'idoAV. and has a long string of admirers, Avliich creates the impression that the elegantly goivned girl is. inclined to be one of the fast set. Her sister is married to a big financial magnate, A\'ho, Avhen he thinks, thinks of money. A younger son of one of the British nobility is enamor,ed of the AvidoAA r ’s sister, and this leads to a serious intrigue, which taxes all the sliqrp Avits of Mrs. Johnson. The play .is gorgeously frocked and gowned. William Russell, in “The Challenge of the Law,” has one of those vivid, gripping melodramas AA'here tlie primal passions are uppermost in the characters represented, and adiauiture is the keynote. In trying to dissolve a gang of hairless men in tlie snow-capped peaks of the great Canadian Avilds, the hero falls deeply in love, Avliich leads to many exciting scenes. Another pretty romantic story is contained in “The Little Grey Mouse,” Avliich gives pretty Louise Lovelj r the chance to achieve her best triumph of the screen. The supporting programme is a Avell-chosen one. A matinee ivill be held to-dav.