PALACE THEATRE.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 10566, 20 April 1928, Page 6

PALACE THEATRE.

THE 'MUSIC MASTER.”

There are no plays like Hie old plays, or, at least tbat seemed the verdict of the large and enthusiastic audiences which have w.tnessed the screening of “The Music Master'’ in other centres, anti which closes tonight at the Palace. Under the direction of Allan P'wan, it has been made into a beautiful production, carefully east and perfect in every detail of costume and sett ng. The scenes are. laid• i s&tho New lork'oi 1900. With s.nipiiCitv and fine feeling. the old story is told again ot Anton Yon Banvig, who left a brillunt career in Vienna to follow h-s wife to America, where she had gone with another man, taking with her liis little daughter. Alter 19..yearsof poverty and loneliness, lie finds the -daughter, but does not dare to claim her for fear that learning the truth will ruin her chance of iiapp - ucss. Slie has been raised in luxury, and is about to marry into a d'listinguChed New l'ork family. The climax comes when Yon Barw.g comps face to face with, the man who Ififs posed, as her father. Alee Franci.fi plays tiie role of the Music Master; -Charles Lane is the other man; Lois Moran is in the role of the daughter. Two outstanding features will he screened at to-morrow’s matinee and to-morrow night, Thomas Meighan in'“The City Gone Wild,” ana Sally O’Neil in “Becky.” Underworld characters who lurk in the shadows of; every large city are wvidly picv ttired in “The City Gore Wild.” Meighan has the role of a powerful. crihiihal lawyer, and around .him collect shell cold.flul characters as |ijje:;riyal gang leaders and their \ respective gun meii, the professional bondsman, the saloon keeper, and the. girls clothed, fed, and supported By their lawless raids. ; T"-Ballv O’Neil’s new> picture for Metro-Goldwy-n-Mayer, “Becky,” abounds in pathos, hum or and everydfiy realism. . It' affords Miss O’Neill h wonderful opportunity to display lief, inimitable, talents as a comefflenneV' .Owen Moore has the leading’ Vujle role' as a confidence man. and; flafry Crocker portrays the part. of ia- ipmußnr of “the upper 4-'-.