AMUSEMENTS.

Grey River Argus, 29 October 1926, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS.

OBJ2BA HOUSE TO-NIGHT ONLY • WHITE MAN. ’ Hero is Walter Long’s new role. A London opera, singer, crazed on the night of his sensational debut, commits murder, escapes to Africa and becomes a river thief and slave trafficker of the jungles. All uf Walter Long’s previous roles put togetner will barely equal in colour the new part which ha s been awarded him by B. P. Schulberg in *• White Alan.” The standards of villainy be raised to' more fascinating heights when Long is seen as the chief terror opposite Alice Joyce, declares Director Gasnier, who was instrumental in the choice. Miss Joyce, who will return to the screen in “White Man” saw a screen test of Long in his new element and discovered that she will have no trouble shuddering at him when the time comes. 'Those who felt that Walter Long would never again have a role of such strength of chaiacter as his- “Gus” hi “The Birth of a Nation” may expect to have a change of heart with the arrival of ‘‘White Man ’• SATURBAY—JACK DRMPSEY. •‘Afauhat tan Aradness’’ is promised is a. novelty in comedy drama. I)emp_ sev has the rul" of a young Westerner bent on adventure, who goes to Hie l»ig city expecting a hq of thrills, but is disappointed until he becomes entangled in a conspiracy that Eads him to a mysterious house where Miss ‘Taylor the heroine, is held prisoner. The scenario calls for Jack to meet a whole amiy of enemies, conspirators and assorted villains in a hand-to-hand battle royal, and it is to be expected that the great exponent of (be manly art was able to meet the situa-

tion in a satisfactory manner, particularly as the object he was fighting for was the new and very real Airs Jack Dempsey in person. ♦‘THE PHANTOM Or THE OPERA” TUESDAY. “The Phantom ot the Opera” Lon Chaney's much-heralded successor spectacle to “The Hunchback ol Notre Dame,” and one of the most daring departures in screen portrayals ever attempted eoni(‘s to the Opera House, commencing next Tuesday. it ] S a spectacular mystery story* of Paris, in which a complete operatic ■]M'iformancc, staged in a huge replica of I ho. Paris Opera House, largest in the world, is compared with weird and grotesque adventures in the great cellars and catacombs. Lon Chaney plays “The Phantom” a. si range creature, of (he Shadows, Mary Philbin, plays the opera singer whom he kidnaps, and Norman Kerry plays her lover and rescuer. Four thousand people take part in the mob scenes, the brilliant spectacles on thp Grand staircase the Opera, and the gala performance of “Faust” in the opera house proper. Tn. the cast are. Virginia Pearson Gibson Gqwland, Snitz Edwards, Cesare G ravin a, Arthur Edmund Car ewe i Alexander Bevani, Anton Vaverka,, Goorgo B. Williams. Edward Cecil, and many other noted soroen players. k Much of this action is taken in color 1 photography, which gives- a vivid as-

peel Jo Ihe kaleidoscopic scenes. Ru pert Julian, director of the “Merry Go-Round” directed the new feature.