PALACE THEATRE.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 10854, 25 March 1929, Page 6

PALACE THEATRE.

“THE RIG CITY”’ AND ‘‘Till WOMAN from muscow.”

Saturday’s grand double feature programme at the Palace, as usual, drew crowded houses and hundreds were again unable to gam admission. These features will be screened again to-night. “The Big City” featuring Lon Chaney, and Pola Negri in “The Woman From Moscow,” are the special features. A glimpse into the “liiviiisiblc City” that exists in every Big City, that strange manifestation of social life known as “the L nde rworld,” is afforded graphic: and enthralling play in Lon Chaney’s latest contribution to the screen “The Big City” Mctro-GoUlwyn-Ma-ver’s thrilling mystery romance of night life. Tin* story, essentially a love story, teems with thrills and a bounds m mystery. Chaney and his associates come in conflict with n gang of jewel thieves; a sensational hold-up of a popular night club, gun battles and duels of wits between !ho detectives and gangsters; these are all breathlessly exciting backgrounds for a charming love idyll of a boy and girl—parts played by pret.lv Mareeline Day, and James Murray, King Vidor’s “discovery.” Betty Oompson plays the role of a lemmrne gangster.. Her fiance was found murdered. She swore vengeance and set forth to bring the murderer to justice. She fell in Java with, tt stranger—and then lound he was ihe killer. This amazing situation is the vortex of the maelstrom of dramatic events in “The' Woman From Moscow.” Pola Negri’s new Paramount picture. Regarded by Miss NeguL herself as the most powerful and dramatic'story in which she lias ever appeared. “The Woman From Moscow” is one of the most unusual Paramount lias ever produced. Norman Kerry, in the role of the young Russian against whom Miss Negri leads tlu* bloodhounds of justice, heads_ one of the strongest supporting east’s of the year.