AMUSEMENTS.

Grey River Argus, 23 June 1927, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS.

OPERA HOUSE — TO-NIGHT. ELINOR GLYN’S “SOUL MATES.” If you loved a man, but thought he wanted to marry you because he want- | ed your money, would you marry him? Such is the situation that confronts Ailcen Pringle in Jack Conway’s production iof Elinor Glyn’s “Soul Mates,” the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture coming to the Opera House tonight (Thursday) only. Conway j has brought this famous Glyn novel to the screen with all its romance, drama and comedy, retaining the spirit of the original in every scene. His vigorous direction is particularly adaptable ro this story, which present the peculiar philosophy of a man’s mind. Edmund Lowe gives a sincere performance as Lord 'Tancred, an English gentleman with a sense of humour. Aileen Pringle for the third time in her brilliant short career plays an Elinor Glyn heroine. Her vjvid attractiveness makes her a figure of greqt interest to the audience. Miss Pringle handles the role with an extreme delicacy of feeling, yet with .an assurance that accentuates her fine acting. ‘‘Soul Matres” has been produced in an elaborate fashion, and with the great attention to detail that is customary with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer pictures.

FRIDAY' ONLY—GSILVER TREASURE,” “The Silver Treasure,” adapted from Joseph Conradis “Nostromjo, ” playing at the Opera House on Friday night, is a dynamic story of adventure and romance. The true spirit of recklessness so typical of the celebrated author’s works has been incorporated in the photoplay version of his moss widely read book. The wealth of characterisation and rapid action is force- ' fully brought to life by George O’Brien, Loui Tellegen, Helena O’Algy, Joan Renee, Stewart Rome, Harvey Clark, Gilbert Clayton, Otto Matteson, Hedda Hopper, Evelyn Selbie, Daniel Makarenko and George Kuna, who are cast in the principal characters of the story. Rowland V. Lee, director of “As No Man Has Loved,” and “Havoc,” staged the picture version of “Nostromo. ” MONDAY AND TUESDAY. “THE BAT.”

> When the screen’s big mystery melor j drama, “The Bat,” makes its local * bow at the Opera House on Monday next, the problem of its audiences will be to detect the identity of the title

character as the film progresses, “The Bat” is a fascinating detective proj blem, with everything in -it calculated interest the most jaded of audiences. “The Bat” is one sensation after another, with no solution bubbling up until the moment the story gives its secret up. There are attempted murders and sudden encounters on every floor of the seemingly haunted mansion, and its spooky garrets are filled with bales of money l . There is a hysterical slavey who jumps at every shadow • that crosses the wall, and a comedy detec tive who butts in to add complications. There is a bank robbery, a financial I crash and the demise of the respected /president under peculiar circumstances,

and the sudden, absconding of the tolI let who holds the key to the debacle, 'or at least to the vault that held the .money. Hidden blue prints of a secret I'room in the house arc sought by eager volunteers. Romance shines undefeated throughout all the troublesome plots and counterplots. Although tens of thousands have seen the stage version 'of ‘ ‘The Bat ’ ’ in its several years ’ career, the secret of its real culprit as finally revealed by its authors, Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood,has. Ijecn well kept. The public has refrained from giving away the solution to members who have not seen it, ’and it is expected that the same loyalty to good entertainment will prevail 'when the big film production of the play comes to Greymouth. b <