THE PICTURE HOUSES. MUNICIPAL.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 245, 29 September 1922, Page 4

THE PICTURE HOUSES. MUNICIPAL.

“CARNIVAL.” “Carnival,” the great English picture now showing at the Hastings Municipal Theatre, proves what can be done in cinematography. It can be safely said that for sheer beauty of photography and excellence of production “Carnival” has never been excelled. and lovers of the beautiful will find it a least of delight. Tlfe scenes of the story are laid in, Venice, and all the characters have foreign names. Here amidst age-old waterways and canals, stately palaces and magnificent public buildings, is enacted a story of surpassing interest and charm, portrayed by English actors and actresses, with Mr. Matheson Lang in the leading role. The action never drags for an instant, from the time one sees the actur, Silvio Steno, at work studying his part in “Othello” ; then on through a succession of wonderful scenes, showing the revels of Venice during carnival time, to the closing scenes of the story with its happy ending. American producers have accustomed us to lavish spectacle, but they navr seldom equalled the scenes of the great masked ball In “Carnival,” with its crowds of revellers and ever-changing lights—a masterpiece of direction and production. The moonlit canals and waterways of the wonderful city to our doors. British people should feel a glow’ of patriotic pride that such a picture “Carnival” comes from a British studio —it proves that England can hold her own with all the world when she puts her heart into it. Clara Kimhall Young in “For the Soul of Rafael.” and a gazette complete an excellent programme. Matinee Programme.

A Pafhe drama, titled “The Sawdust Doll,” and starring Baby Marie Oshome, will be the feature on the matinee hill to-morrow. “The Winners of the West” serial will be advanced another stage and there will also be a comedy and Pathe’s gazettes in support.

COSY DE LUXE. “Hail the Woman,” Thomas 11. Ince’s enthralling transcript of life, now .screening at the Cosy is a unque achievement of the photographer’s art, being one of the deepest and most appealing dramas of American life ever filmed. Henry Sharp, the photographer in charge, has thus earned frosh laurels in the field of artistic interpretation of human (‘motions and events through the all-seeing eye of the camern The plot of “Hail the Woman’’ is a tense succession of dramatic and emotional situations, such as required deft and delicate handling by an expert camera man of exceptional ability and artistic sentiment. The supports to the big feature include a comedy, a further chapter of “Stanley in in Africa’’ and gazettes. To-morrow ’s Matinee.

Paramount’s latest production, “Miss Lulu Bett,” is the starring picture at the matinee to-morrow, with an all-star cast. A Sennett comedy, “When Love is Blind,” the chapter play, “Stanley in Africa” and Paramount’s entertaining gazette will also be screened.