Buy Comfortable Beds

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIV, Issue 201, 2 August 1924, Page 10

Buy Comfortable Beds

Never attempt to economise on beds and beddings. The framework may be anything yOu choose but the bed itself should be the best procurable. A box mattress with spiral springs is the first essential. On this you will need a hair mattress. Choose a thick one but be careful to have the hair packed fairly loosely. This is. I know, contrary to the usual idea of the “good hard mattress” but it is sound advice. With a reasonably soft mattress, the full benefit of the deep spiral spring mattress will be felt.

French beds are said to be the most comfortable in the world, and this is largely because the Frenchwoman has the hair mattresses entirely re-made, softened and loosened, each year. . Buy the best down pillows in strong ticking covers; the square shape looks nice either on a single or double bed. Have your sheets as long as possible. They tuck in comfortably at the foot and the top ends protect the blankets from dust. A mixture of cotton and linen is satisfactory for ordinary sheets, and, for covering, one or two blankets, an Indian cotton bed-cover and an eiderdown are preferable to a greater number of blankets and a white quilt.

“THE NIGHT MESSAGE.” | (Universal’s Attraction.) “The Night Message,” perhaps one of the most-talkcd-of pictures in screen dom to-day, comes to th© Cosy do Luxe Tneatre commencing to-night. It is a Universal all star attracton written and directed from his own story by Perley Poore Sheehan, th© celebrated novelist. The author chose his locations, his cast, and arranged his scenes. He organised his players like a stage company and started work by reading,them the play and then rehearsing it as a whole, just as Belasco rehearses a stage play. ~ • Each actor was asked to form his or hex own conception of the role to bo played; they decided on their own costumes and gave jilieir own ideas of the ! characters, after studying the play in detail. The actors wcr© not allowed to be made mere/automatons, as is oTten dc-nc in pictures, but were asked to lend ■ their brains as well as their talent to the famous author’s venture into picturedom. ( Tho result is a spectacular melodrama, crammed with gripping dramatic situations and so remarkably played that the cheractcrs seem to veritably live. Hollywood hailed it as one of the classics of tho jyears.

“THE CHEAT. A picture story with a happy ending for Pola Negri! That is something which the admirers of this celebrated screen star will see in “The Cheat,” her latest Paramount picture, produced by George FiUmuurice, which will bo on view at the Municipal Theatre tonight. The story written by Hector Turnbull is said to provide Miss Negri with one of the most delightful roles she has ever essayed. The story of “The Cheat” deals with a wealthy girl of Latin. .American parentage who, to avoid wedding an old man, chosen by her father, elopes with a young American. In Paris she is loved by an art swindler disguised as an East Indian prince who follows her to New York. The girl is disinherited by her father, and unused to poverty, she accepts the supposed Hindu’s oflxn of money with which to gamble. At first she wins, then loses not only her own money, but a charity fund entrusted to her. Panic-stricken, she borrows from the “prince” and promises to dine with him alone in return for the lean. At this juncture her husband wins a small fortune by putting over a lumber deal, and gives her 25.000 dollars. She writes a cheque for the amount due the Hindu and carries it to his home. But he tells her he doesn’t want the money—he wants her. When she seeks to escape he drags her to a table. She takes up a revolver and shoots him, then escapes from the house just as her husband steps into the scene. From this point on, the action is swift and races to one of the finest climaxes ever seen on Che screen. The ending is happy. The part of the husband is played by Jack Holt, popular Paramount star, while the role of the disguised Hindu prince is in the capable hands of Charles de "Roche, the famous French screen star. ®> ® ‘ ‘ THE WHITE TIGER. ’ ’ “ White Tiger, ” a Universal-Jewel photoplay telling a dramatic story of international crime and romauic love, comes to the Municipal Theatre next Wednesday. The star is Priscilla Dean and the supporting cast a “blue be ok” group. Wallace Beery of “The Flame of Life” and “Robin Hood” fame will be seen in the principal ‘ ‘ heavy ’ ’ characterisation, while Raymond Griffith handles a secondary masculine characterisation, and Matt Moore plays the straight lead opposite Miss Dean. Moore will be remembered fcr his superb characterisation in “The Storm.” ‘ ‘ White Tiger ” is a rival to ‘ ‘ Outside the Law,” Miss Dean’s spectacular success of two or three years ago, and is said to be a more thrilling play than the older production. ‘ ‘ White Tiger” is tho same type of picture, telling a dramatic story of the underworld only the “underworld” in this case is chiefly the top strata of international crookdom. The same man wrote and directed both pictures, Tod Browning. “White Tiger” is laid in the Limehouse and other picturesque sections of London, the ultra-elite social atmosphere of New York City and a lonely cabin up-state. An important feature of the story is the characterisation bv Miss Dean, Griffith and Beery of a trio of high class crooks who display what fiction writers have been prone to call “honour among thieves.” They have about as much honour, respect foF each other or comradely spirit as a cat, a dog and a snake would have if they had never seen each other before and were cooped up together.

“THE LAST MOMENT.” I I Released by United Artists, starts tonight at the Municipal, starring Doris j Keynon and Henry Hui. This is a pic- 1 turn that will provide more thrill, excitement and mystery than any dozen {features. The title has reference to ‘ * what a man would do at the last moment if put to the test. ’ ’ The man, in this particular instance, is Henry Hull, a dreamer of big things, but who is ap-1 parently, not capable of them. In search of adventure, he, with the heroine and mutual friend, are shanghied aboard a ship, the captain, of which is a I ferocious Finn, who holds sway entirely l by his brutality. In avoiding the revenue officers, the captain puts out to sea, having first of all thrown over- ’ board a professor who has captured a famous gorilla. This on board, and during the height of a storm.• escapes, kills several of the crew, and i holds the others in subjection. At times the picture becomes creepy, eerie and weirdly mysterious and the attenof the audience is extended to the limit.' ®> t® ‘■WITHIN THE LAW.” First National photodrama starts on Wednesday next at the Cosy de Taixe. I Norma Talmadge’s pictures arc al-' ways worth going to see, and ‘‘ Within the Law” is no exception. This well- ' knit and swiftly-moving “crook” story ! provides a rather “different” role for the brilliant star, but she proves her powerful portrayal as the much wronged Mary Turner. A most brilliant cast supports Miss Talmadge, outstanding in which are Lew Cody as Jos. Garson, and ISileen Percy as Aggie Lynch. As in all Talmadge productions, settings and dressing are in complete harmony, • From all points, ‘‘Within the Law” is rattling good melodramatic entertainment. “THE NINETY AND NINE.” (Vitagraph’s Screen Sensation). “The Ninety and Nine,” which will be shown at the Cosy do Luxe Theatre on Wednesday, is a real smashing special and oh, what a thriller! Given first a smashing plot, full of the big scenes that lead logically, and with the utmost of suspense, up to the big climax. I The big thrill is the rescue of an entire countryside from the fury of the' flames, as the forest fire races towards the surrounded town. It is destined ’ to be received as one of the finest things of its kind ever seen on the. screen. I Grat stretches of burning forset, whole towns in flames, hundreds of men, wo-1 men and children running frantically' to cover. The little telegraph office is’ besieged with shouting, cursing, pray-1 ing men, demanding an engine to take the trapped inhabitants to safety. There ‘ is not an engine on the division. Beside himself, the dispatcher remembers that an official’s engine, with a private car, is on the siding at the nearest station. But the official declares it is a fool’s chance, and will not permit the use of the engine. Then the one man appears —the young derelict, who chances to bo on the scene. Without hestitation he rolls the steel monster out on the main track, and heads-into the furnace of roaring flames ahead. Then, when you reach this point in the footage, you just naturally grab tho back of the seat ahead of you, and with your mouth half open, you ride with that chap. You feel the hot breath of the smoke laden gale; you hear tho rhymthic roar of tho great j machine, and tho crashing fall of tho pines at the side of the track. You li- j terally ride with tho courageous engin-l cor as tho locomotive sweeps through that hell on its errand of mercy. Warner Baxter is the volunteer engine driver in this great production, and beautiful Colleen Moore is the winsome Ruth Blake who is his .'aspiration. ® ® “THROUGH A GLASS WINDOW.” , Paramount’s photodrama, starring May McAvoy, staffing at the Cosy de Luxe to-night. A pleasing little story that will be ranked as a splendid feature. Dan and Jenny Martin are brother and sister who live with their sick mother, who ekes out an existence by dressmaking. Tho mother becomes too sick to work, and a visit to a -warmer climate is suggested. Having no money, the children are at their wits’ end, but Jennie conceives a clever idea, i o die secures several rods of cheap wall paper, works on tho garden wall and backyard, so 1 that in the morning the place looks like a fairy garden. The soothing influence of the scene has a beneficial effect : on the mother’s health.

"OVER THE HILL." (Producer Compliments Leading Actrew Because Bhe Didn’t Act.) • William Fox, the motion picture producer, was standing in the rear of the theatre in New York City where his great motion picture, * ‘Over the Hill,** war. playing, when a prominent welfare worker, who recognised him, shook Ms hand warmly, saying: | *‘ Mr Fox, I jwant to congratulate you upon having in your employment so gifted an aertess as Mary Carr. She plays the-mother wonderfully in “Over the Hill.” ■I “Thanks,” said Mr Fox. “I suppose you will be /surprised, though, i when I call your attention to the fact that Mary Carr, (out leading actress m the him, does not act; in fact, I am l afraid that if she did, the story of ,i ‘Over the Hill, might not be such an interesting chapter in film history.** The welfare worker asked for an j explanation of this enigmatic statement. Mr (Fox responded: “I’ll let you in on a little secret. I When we read -what the reviewers say | about the .wonderfully natural and I realistic manner in which Mary Carr I portrays the mother in ‘ Over tne Hill, ’ ’ iwo naturally felt very gratified; but the fact is that Mrs Carr is surroundIcd in the picture with several of her own kiddies, and what people out 1 front are quick to/construe as an exceptionally fine piece of realistic act--1 ing is really Mrs Carr ministering to the joys and troubles of her own lit- ' tie brood, 'just as she does in private life. 1 selected her for this part - from a small army of stage mothers because I that if she was sur- » rounded with her own little ones, sho 1 would naturally be more convincing 1 in the part than could any actress who ■ • was not a mother in. real life, but was ’ trying to act the -mother to a lot of possibly trying youngesters. I didn’t want Mrs Carr to act—and she agreed with me. The 'result speaks for itself.** “Over the Hill” will be seen at the King’s Theatre on Wednesday. [ ® <» ' “GENTLE JULIA.” 1 “Gentle Julia,” another of Booth ’ Tarkington’s incisive and amusing ' stories of the characteristics of the younger generation has been pution the ‘ screen by William Fox, under the direC- • tion of Rowland V. Lee. Donald Lee has ’written the scenario. The picture 1 will be shown at the King’s Theatre'for 1 three days, commencing to-night. I The eminent American novelist whose '.stories “Seventeen,” .“Clarence,” and ••Penrod and Sam” have beer among I the brightest and most entertaining film 1 • comedies produced, has drawn fresh«and l highly amusing characters in this latest t of his novels to reach the silent stage His revelation of human nature is an intellectual treat. A range that includes such widely divergent types tit talcs as “Monsieur Beaucaire,” “Cameo Kirby” and “Gentle Julia” gave Booth Tarkington an undisputed .place in the front line of contemporary novelists Bessie Love is the Jlia whose gentleness in dealing with her numerous admirers and strong objection to giving any of thorn a hint that his suit is hopeless, keeps her involved in a dozen affairs of the heart. This brilliant and fascinating young actress was barely seventeen when she had placed to her credit several finished screen impersonations. 6g> “LADIES TO BOARD.” ' Those who recall Tom Mix in his uproarously funny comedy picture “Soft Boiled,” will welcome the news that this athletic Fox star has made another funster, “ Ladies to Board,” which will open a three days’ engagement at the King’s Theatre, August 9th. His latest picture is from the pen of Wili liam Dudley Pelley and recites the experiences of a hard boiled cow pneher , who inherits an old ladifis home with . ali its attendant trials and fortunes — good and bad. It seems that Tom, as Tom Faxton, 1 with his friend Bunk.McGinnis, his half pint pardner, decide so go to Boston to look over the bean foundries. Tom gets an opportunity to perform a little favour for a lady, ono Anastasia MeFirth, when he saves her from an omnivorous omnibus. Out of gratitude, a month later, when this old spinster passes away, phe wills to the energetic Thomas the McFirth Santorium for Old Ladies. From then on things begin to happen fast and humorously and Tom, Bunk and Tony Mix rid? through several -reels of what is heralded to be the best entertainment Mix has ever made.