AMUSEMENTS.

Grey River Argus, 20 June 1927, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS.

OPERA HOUSE — TO-NIGHT. “THE RCWAWAY.” V. hat happens when a pretty little Jiaru-boileu ’ ’ actress hides from jus ce because of a crime she hasn’t nun.tted? v That’s the basic thought ii which William de Mille’s new iiaiiKiunt production, “The Runa-

way,’’ is based. In the hotel room of a man she while “on location ’’ with a movie company, he'is accidentally shot and seriously wounded. A young Kentucky mountaineer on the hills is by the girl appealed to for help and agrees to take her across the State line. Lie asks only two things—that she change her clothes and wash the signs of “a painted woman’’ from her face. So ho takes her homo—a very much frightened little girl in overalls a lot too big for her. Do they fall in love with each other? How do the mountain folk take to the girl? Clara Bow’s the girl, Warner Baxter the rescuer, and William Powell the man who is shot, while Qeorge Bancroft is seen as Baxter’s enemy. It come to live Opera House to-night, and again to-morrow night.

WEDNESDAY—CONWAY TEARLE IN “THE SPORTING LOVER.” It has remained for E. M. Asher’s First National picturisation of “The Sporting Lover,” starring Conway Tearle, at the Opera House on Wednesday Matinee and night, to provide the most unique romantic setting of the year. “The Sporting Lover” deals with wartime romance and racehorses, and Mr Tearle, as Captain Terrance Connaughtob. finds his ideal of a wife in Barbara Bedford, as Lady Gwendolyn, amid the chaos of a battle front air raid. The foundation of their romance is built amid the ruins of a field hospital, where the couple realise their great love while fighting for life buried beneath piles -of earth tossed over them by bursting bombs. It is 'believed that the romantic scenes from Mr Tearle’s starring vehicle possesses the most dramatic climax yet seen in a war play.