AMUSEMENTS.

Grey River Argus, 20 June 1925, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS.

OPERA HOUSE. : MATINEE TO-DAY. “The Fighting Adventurer” starring Pat O’Malley, Mary Astor, Raymond Hattan and Warner Oland, will be the main attraction at. the matinee in the Opera House to.day and again to-night. Disowned by his millionaire ship-owner father, he, accused of being afraid of women, follows a girl to China to tell her he loves her. Tlow he makes good, beats Oriental revolutionists at their own game, wins the girl and regains his father’s affection, makes a picture every moment of which is crammed with thrills and : laughter. | AL ST. JOHN. | The supporting pictures includes an Al | St. John comedy and a further chapter of “Tn the Days of Daniel Boone.” SUNDAY. | Doug. Fairbanks Junr. in “Stephen] Stops Out” will he the main attraction t at the picture benefit on Sunday. A GREAT PICTURE. “THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME.” Much has been hoard of •uc super I picture production. “ The H'-m-hb;. of Notre Dame,” a work that must rank as among the greatest achievements of motion pictures. 'That («j-e\-mouth audiences are now to have an opportunity of seeing 'it will be welcome news to all pieturojovers. From every point of view it is a. colossal production. To essay the picturisat ion of so great a theme is a thing from which any but the most courageous of picture-makers would have quailed. In its mere length the picture is notable. ITn its staging of huge spectacle a ?| nd the nrcsentation of magnificently organised scenes of mammoth lyin’ it is unique: The characterisation is superb. Nothing quite so good has been done in any picture to which Grev_ mouth audiences have hitherto had access. The settings are on a. scale which correspond. The cumulative effect is to leave the onlooker rather bewildered and overwhelmed with the magnificenee of it all. Nothing that has been said of this great picture has in any way exaggerated its merits, ••nd the audiences in who are in be afforded an opportunity of judffino- it for themselves next week will doubtless conic to the same conclusion ns Gio tens of thousands who have al_ i-nnflv teen, the picture in other cities end towns of New Zealand, that the film ’s one destined tn live as ri st.-m- -.]•!)•' Lv v-hich future great works will !»<’ iudpofl. The picture in all essen. G'l< follows the storv bv the famous Victor Hugo, aflonied in nlaces »n n-n sent dav conceptions. A.ll the power. f”l stow is there, inclndum- ?■ pinncfro<ifv of o-itnce cnleuhitod +<> ’wko one ,«h”(lflor. The Hn”chback rermins a i p>'ntn < impression. “The Hunchback of Notre Dame’ ■..-ill lio übown •>( the Onern IDnise. nonpnjo) ci n <•■ on ‘Mondav. Juno "°nd. ‘»t a special cnnui’oucin«>- •’♦ 2.30 o ’ ‘lock.