AMUSEMENTS.

Grey River Argus, 9 July 1926, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS.

OPERA HOUSE—TO-NIGHT. ONE BIG NIGHT OF JOY. FUTURISTS ’ FAREWELL. To-ii’ght (Friday) for one night only, the English Futurists will give their arewell performance in the Opera louse, when they will present all special request numbers selected from lour programmes. One big night of joy by the same sixteen merry maids and men; Gorgeous gowns, superb scenic effects, and brilliant ensembles. Don’t miss he English Futurists. Prices 5/-, 4/-, 2/-, 2/-. Box plan at Webley’s. TO WN II AluL—TO -NIG IIT. BETT Y BALFOUR. Whoever created Hi© character of Squibs for Betty Balfour certainly did the job well. As “Squibs M.P.,” the latest Master Picture, due to- • night (Friday) at the Town Hall, she is both philanthropist and parliamentarian, a little flower seller who has climbed the social ladder carrying with her a magic box of amusing tricks. Betty laying the law down to father, or masquerading in officer’s uniform at a costume ball in Paris, or chopping up lumps of butter at ihe Squibs’ Pure Milk Dairy, or sho'wing P. 0.. Lee how to make a parliamentary speech, pasting up election bills, white-washing hecklers, pleading th© cause of babie s before battleships in the House of Commons, or chasing the ghosts in a haunted castle, is just the self-same Betty, radiating happiness all tb* 3 time. OPERA HOUSE—SATURDAY. An all-star cast will be seen in the Master Picture, “Masters of Men,” the great sea picture which will be shown at the Opera Jlouso on Saturday. at the matinee and again at night, headed by Earle Williams. It is a story full of sympathetic heart interest, and he-man conflict. “Masters of Men” is pictured by C. Graham Baker, from Morgan. Robertson’s novel of that name. It is a story of a boy’s mastery of the primordial instincts with which every male child is born and his development into a real man’s man, in the hell-hole before the mast of an oldfashioned sailing vessel. Cullen Landis plays thq part of the hot-headed boy and Earle Williams his friend and men tor. Alice Calhoun and Wanda II; wley play the sweethearts of the two young mon. Among others in the ast are: Dick Sutherland, thc most lout'll looking’ man on the screen. Charles E. 'Mason, Bert Apling, Jack Curtis, and Martin Turner. MARY PICKFORD MONDAY. “Little Annie Rooney,” a comedy drama of tenement life in New York hi which Mary Pickford stars ,and ivliich comes to the Opera House on Monday and Tuesday next, under a United Artists Corporation release, appears to have been written tc order lor “The World’s Sweetheart” for it

is an ideal Mary Pickford story. “Little Apnie Rooney” is as Irish as the curly-haired ragamuffin who plays the title role, the young daughter of an East Side policeman, whose playmates are about thirty young boys, and who enters into the gang fights and rows ©f these lads with all the vigour at her command. Unexpectedly tragedy stalks into the policeman’s family, and the girl is suddenly faced with some of the grim realities of life that seldom comet© a child of her au< Through the gang battle sequences Mis s Pickford romps gloriousl\U"a lead er of the dirty faced boys and the idol of her “gang.” She is sweet and appealing as the sweetheart of her “Joe” and through the entire picture th© artistry of Mary Pickford is again revealed. While of the type of many of her best pictures, “Little Annie Rooney” has a new and strong plot a carefully chosen cast of supporting players and is photographically beautiful throughout.