PALACE THEATRE.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 10787, 7 January 1929, Page 6

PALACE THEATRE.

DOUBLE-FEATURE BILL TO-NIGHT.

The Palace was filled to capacity at both screenings on Saturday and hundreds were turned away when the finest screen entertainment filmed was presented. The attractions, are two special Paramount features, •‘Sporting Goods” and “The Water Hole.” .Richard Dix strikes a. new note in “Sporting Goods.” He is scon a.s a, sporting goods salesman, who gets into a number of embarrass.ug positions. It is an involved business for Dix, who plays with excellent humor. With only a dollar or two in his pocket, and several golfing suits, he finds himself in a millionaire’s hotel occupying a suite costing 50 dollars a day. Thereafter, a tangle in finances, love,; suits- arid the selling .of sporting goods, pogiir. Tito latter'provides-a sound basis fop humor.. and the antics of the buy.er, Ford Sterling-,, fire.'particularly amusing. Gertrude .Olmsted is ’the -petite , and vivacious girl in The piece. Naturally; she" is In* lf greatly, disappointed. when "shefinds that Dix is a; salesman, and not .a “mpnpy nioguk” But he achieves' some' success ip Ins dealings by the time ’she does That, mainlv By means of a card'gipne which is full of humor. Zsuie .o»ey,..,whoso Western talcs- have -.delighted ..thousands in book; formyaud ,inillipn\s , in moving 'picture form w.rotfe-.‘‘The Water TioleP .'a unique .story wliioli features ' Jack, Holt; . The -stpry was. so. well' liked.’ that Parqm.ount. secured the'film’ for,the, piece, even .befpre it was novelised.- Zaire Grey has. given the -screen, many entertaining, -and gripping moving, pictures.; The story concerns- the., taming of ..a. pampered. . girl of the city. A.strong man.-of The West kidnaps her," but the light- 1 hearted nvank. turns into, a pear, tragedy. They become lost on; the desert, lose their horse, -and try-, to crawl to civilisation without one .drop of water, to refresh them.' The picture is full'of adventure arid danger, find there is a groat 1 climax. These features will, bo fierce tied for the last time to-nigi/v,, . ;., - *