PEERLESS PICTURES.

Grey River Argus, 5 June 1922, Page 8

PEERLESS PICTURES.

Alice Brady in “A Dark Lantern” will be shown at the Town Hall tonight for the last time. The usual matinee will be given on Wednesday. AVednesday night ’s big programme will be headed by “The Miracle of Manhattan.'’ Elaine Hammerstein whose delineations of the best type of womanhood have established her as one of the favourite stars of the silent art, has, in her latest Selznick picture, “The Miracle of Manhattan,” a role which makes more demands upon her ability than any part she has hitherto essayed. As the somewhat self-opinioned young society woman who is suddenly plunged into a phase of life and surroundings that are entirely foreign to her, Miss Hammerstein is enabled to depict a series of subtle changes of character that at once stamp her as a supreme article. At the beginning of Bradley King's photoplay, Miss Hammerstein is pictured as a young woman of refinement and wealth who is about to marry a man she really does not care for, merely because it will be what an ambitious aunt considers a “good match.’’ Chance throws across her path a girl who is destitute, and who in desperation has made the first step on fhe downward path. The society butterfly who has never had to shift for herself cannot understand the other’s lack of courage, and in a spirit of adventure attempts to prove that any girl can easily support herself. Her adventure is about to end in a dismal failure when she, as a final resort, accepts a position to sing in a cheap cabaret. Here she meets characters such as she never knew existed, and is forced to rely on the protection of a man. The supports include Tom Mix in “Shooting Up the Movies,’’ and a two-reel comedy.