THE PICTURE HOUSES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 303, 11 December 1922, Page 5

THE PICTURE HOUSES.

.MUNICIPAL. DAISY JEROME, TO-NIGHT. Miss Daisy Jerome, who scored such a tremendous success in Australia, and who has been impressing critics in New Zealand, will commence her two-nights’ Hastings season this evening in the Municipal Theatre. A Sydney critic writes of Daisy Jerome. On Wednesday, August 30, at the National Theatre, Sydney, Daisy Jerome gave her farewell perforamneo before a huge audience, and.one,can safely say it was the finest “send-off” tendered to ady “star” in this part of the world. Her turn was put well towards the end of the programme, and the immense audi--enee waited with great patience and expectancy for her appearance. What a reception! Song after song, and for each one the little lady appeared in a different costume, all of the frocks being wonderful creations, and many an exclamation was heard from vac female section of the uadience relative to their magnificence. ’At the end of the programme, after she had been recalled again and again, a soldier rose to his Ifeet and called on her to sing “The Press, the Pulpit, and the Petticoat,” and, turning to him, she replied: “Although I am tired and overcome with all I have gone through to-night, yours is a request which I must grant. You have done brave deeds for your country and have returned, perhaps unrewarded, and this is my appreciation.” A series of pictures will also be shown. COSY DE LUXE. There was a large and well-satisfied audience at the Cosy on Saturday evening. There were two features on the programme. The first was “Island Wives,” starring Corinne Griffith, a story of the South Sea Islands. One of the spectacular scenes includes a South Sea typhoon, w'hich nearly cost the lives of several of the players. Miss Griffith is given a great opportunity to show her remarkable talent, and she takes full advantage of it. In “The Man who Married His Own Wife,” Frank Mayo is the leading player. The story is full of interest and perfect acting is a feature of the production, night the same series will be screened.