PALACE THEATRE.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10753, 26 November 1928, Page 6

PALACE THEATRE.

“THE BIG KILLING” AND “THE DIVINE WOAIAN”

"Tile Big Killing” and “The Divine Woman” are the special attractions to he screened at . the Palace for the last time to-night. “Four generations of Hicka have lived in this house and we ain’t leavin’ now.” With those words Old Alan Hicks breathes defiance to Old-Alan Beagle and a feud in the Kentucky mountains is on in “The Big Killing” the Paramount Wallace Beery-Raymond Hatton team comedy. Tho Hicks and the Beagles' had stepped a ‘feuding” for the more profitable pastime of making corn “licker” but, when one of the Beagle boys finds his sister in the arms of young. Jim Hicks, the stills have a rest and the rifleg come into use agam. Alary Brian takes tlie role 'of the Beagle girl, Gardner James is the fortunate Jim Hicks, . and Lane Chandler is the other Hicks boy. The alluring star of “Flesh " and the Devil” occupied a similar position on the screen of to-day aa,.that, occupied on the stage by Sarah' Bernhardt in the days of her. young womanhood, and it is fitting that Greta Garbo should, in,part, perpetuate the highly colorful life of the, great Sarah in this artistic and ' dramatic .Aletro-Goldwyn-Mayer production ' “The Di vine Woman”. Greta Garbo’s right to portray the. heights of human emotion —the deep fundamental experiences of life—from poverty in wooden shoes the pangs of hunger, thwarted hopes and black despair—onward ,to worldwide. fame, riches and, luxury, exotic love.. bath Royalty itself present in, a constant attendance lof impetuous guitors—Greta Garbo’s’ supreme right to, this- portrayal is manifest in her performaiicp. ... . > \