PALACE THEATRE.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 10843, 12 March 1929, Page 6

PALACE THEATRE.

“BRASS KNUCKLES.”

“Brass Knuckles” featuring Mouti* Blue and Betty Bronson will be ■screened for one night and Oneinatince only at the Palace, that is today and to-night. “Brass Knuckles” is melodrama, 'big. linman, rough, tender and mirthful. It recounts the rugged adventures of Zac Harrison, a tenement youth, a structural iron worker by trade , whom one secs first in prison, where lie has been placed wrongfully. He incurs the enmity of an inmate, who hides his time to" get even. After Zac in again a part of the big city, working at las trade, and caring for the motherless waif whose father has logged him to care for her, as they part at tho prison gates, the enemy hobs up, causing complications which for the time break up the little home iind put both child and protector in institutions. Monte Blue is at h!s best as the hero of this storv of hard

R-onson p'ays the waif. June, with feds and kindly hearts, and Betty whimsical charm. Others in the east are William Russell, George Stone, Paul Panzer and Jack Curtis.

“THE LAST COMMAND.”

A picture within a picture is “The Last Command” an unusually intersting dramatic production, starring Famous Emil Jaiiiiings, opening tomorrow night. “The East Command” is a storv told in tho bitterness of an old man’s recollections. The Bettings of the play aye Hollywood. 1228, and Russia, 1917 A Russian general lias been hounded from his country and drifts to Hollywood. where Russians are being employed on a big production dealing with the Russian revolution. The preparations remind him ol the past, and he travels in memory back to the red da vs. Ho sees the face of a girl, a rebel maid, for whom he cherishes a deep affection. At the time of Ids degradation has go.ria out of his life, leaving huff a broken wanderer. By the irony of fate in the picture he is called on to enact the part of a Rusdan general at the head of his forces. The film director—his superior—is the man who was h’s bitterest enemv; the colleague of tho girl he had loved. Tho end comes with tho death of the general at the euTso of the mock battle.