PICTURE HOUSES MARGARET LIVINGSTON

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVI, Issue 280, 13 November 1926, Page 11

PICTURE HOUSES

MARGARET LIVINGSTON

Next Week s Attractions COSY OE LUXE, Saturday, Monday and Tuesday, Nov 13th, tsth and t 6 th. “The Steel Alarm” (Universal Jewell Ihe most exciting (ire picture ever screened. It s a masterP ‘T'h W‘llian> Russell and Helene Chadwick “The Splendid Crime” (Paramount;. Featuring Bebe Daniels. The atorv of a pretty girl who tries to reform because housebreaking is hard work foi a l a d T Paramount Aussie Gazette, ' Wednesday. Thursday ano Friday. Nov. nth. isth and 19th. “Wild Justice” (United Artists) The greatest dog picture. Starring Peter the Great, the wonder of Germany s police dogs. The l ’ ar(li ner Sullivan. The Outsider” (Fox) Featuring Jacqueline Logan and Lou Telle, gen. Ihe screen version of the great stage success. Fox Illustrated News. MUNICIPAL. Saturday Only, Nov. 13th. “Joanna” (First National). The pictunsation of H. L. Gates’ modern story of a million dollar heiress and how she spent her great laugh. Dorothy Mackaill, -ack Mulhall and George Fawcett head the cast. ;“The Ace of Spades” (Universal) Chapter No. 3. Comedy Gazette Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday Nov. nth, isth. and 19th. “Monte Carla” (Metro-Goldwyn) A glorious, dazzling pageant of'the world of fashion’s lure. It’s a speedy comedy surprise, featurmg Lew Cody and Zasu Pitts. Supports include Travelogue. Comedy, Scenic, Gazette. ♦ ♦ ♦ » “THE STILL ALARM.’ William Bussell, who plays the leading male role opposite Helene Chad wick in “The Still AJam,” Universal Jewel, is a bolder of the Carnegie Hero Medal. Some years ago when the excursion steamer General Slocum was burned in the East Biver, New York, Bussell saved 1) lives. He is still at it in this great picture of the fire department, running at the Cosy de Luxe Theatre to-night. In add tion to Miss Chadwick and Bussell, chi' players in “The Still Alarm" are Richard C. Travers, John T. Murray Dot Farley, Edna Marian, Edward Hearn, Jacques d’Auray and Erin La Bissonierc. “The Still Alarm" was directed by Edward Lacmmle. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ BEBE GETS PLENTY OP EXERCISE IN NEW FILM. ' Bcbc Daniels did not have to worry about being cheated of the exercise she derived from a daily visit to the Sunset Canyon Golf Club during the filming of • * The Splendid crime,' ‘ her latest starring vehicle for Paramount, starting at Cosy de Luxe to-night. In the role of Jenny, the droll little girJ crook of this human and humorous story, Miss Daniels obtained all the exercise she needed, fighting with burly police officers, climbing in and out of second story windows, and wrestling with her own crook companions.

Neil Hamilton plays the leading male role opposite Miss Daniels in “The Splendid Crime,’’ which was written and directed by William de Mille. Anne Cornwall and Anthony Jowitt are the other featured players. Violet Clark wrote the screen adaptation.

“WILD JUSTICE.”

Don’t misb this at the Cosy de Luxe, starting Wednesday. A new star has risen in the cinema sky. He’s a dog star, and his name is Peter the Great. His latest ap pearance is in a thrilling and in tensely gripping story of the North land, “Wild Justice,” a Chester M Franklin production being released by United Artists Corporation. Movie fans will recall that Mr Franklin has made more dog screen stars than almost any other man. Peter the Great is said to be a marvel ol intelligence, especially trained for motion picture work, and to have been selected for this purpose because of an almost uncanny ahiln to register elemental emotions— ot whatever it is a dog registers to show his loves and his hatreds, his vengeance or his loyalty. Peter ia great grandson of the famous Alex von Westfalenheim, Germany’s greatest police dog, the blood of which i,i found in champions of all police dog classes.

“JOANNA.” Say, little girl I Suppose you received a notice from a bank that there was a million dol lais deposited to your credit in the vaults. Suppose that you found the money actually to be there, and at your disposal to spend as you pleased. Whai would you do? Buy clothes 1 auto home? give to charity! Ot would you throw it away on extravu gant divertions, supporting fair-wen ther friends who would desert you the moment you spent your last cent This fascinating question forms the centra! motif of “Joanna," a new Edwin Carewe-First National picture, featuring Dorothy Mackall) and Jack Mulhall, which comes to-night to the Municipal Theatre. loiinna. s pool ires, model, is the recipient of the million. How she gets rid of it is the story of the picture. In the supporting east are Georgs Fawcett, Paul Nicholson, Lillian Lang don. John T. Murray, Edward Davis and Dolores de) Rio. Rite Carewc. daughter of the producer, makes her Him debut io this picture. V ♦ * ♦ 1 "MONTE CARLO." MUNICIPAL THEATRE ON WEDNESDAY NEXT. Monte Carlo—where beautiful women and dashing men play in a world of glittering wealth. AU the lure of its fabulous fashions. _ its ravishing beauties and enchanting romance sparkles in this great comedy. The rollicking adventures of a trie of ixirlj who stalked Cupid in Fashion’s lair will cram into one short hour more entertainment and happiness than you’ll eet in a lifetime

If the movies were to close up shop—what would happen to the stars? Would they be able to IIUI cute their success in other lines? Perhaps not all of them would, bin certainly the versatile cast of “The Outsider,” the Fox Films picture coming to tne Cosy de Luxe Theatre, would never starve.

Jacqueline Logan, playing the leading role in this adaptation of Dorothy Brandon’s big stage hit, would tuck her portable typewriter under her arm and go back tc newspaper reporting, a profession at which she succeeded before her beauty attracted picture producers During the making of this film, Lou Tellegen, the pourtrayer of the male lead, told an interviewer that he had often longed to be a stage manager, to put into execution some revolutionising ideas of play presentation. Walter Pidgeon, an other handsome actor in the cast, confessed he would like tc own a bookshop, while Joan Standing '•harncter actress declared that if film work ever slackened she would go /Into vaudeville.

FOUGHT THEIR WAY TO MOVIES.

Tom Kennedy aud Gunbout Smith both prize-fighters of yesteryear, are now under long-term contracts ce Famous Players-Lasky Coroporatiou as featured players. With two exceptions, Raymond Hatton has played character roles and villains all his life, extending over a career of four hundred photo-plays. Noah Berry, Paramount featured player, was once a basso singer (in the stage. Guy Oliver, Paramount player, ha> appeared in fifty-two sea pictures during bis .-erven career.

Lawrence Gray, Paramount featured player, was a discovery of Bebe Dani els. Previous U) ins screen experience h* was a bu‘iLCsi» manager m the Famous PlaycneLusky East studio.

Furd Sterling, Paramount’s come dian who went East recently, has returned to the Coast to begin work in another production.

WORLD’S GREATEST ARTISTS. COMING NEXT YEAR.

The coming year will be altogether notable as regards the number and quality of the musical attractions to be presented by J. and N. Tait. The first of these will probably be Paderewski, the great pianists, being followed by the young violinist, Jascha Heifetz, after whom will come Mischa Levitiski, the pianist; Tito Schipa, the famous Italian operatic tenor; Joseph Hislop, the noted English lyric tenor, and others. Already interest is very keen in the coming of Paderewski, who, apart from his fame as a pianist, played an important part in European politic? after the war, having been the first President and Premier of the newly-estab-lished republic of his beloved country. Poland.

plays the leminine lead in “Hell’s Four Hundred,” to be shown in Hastings. The story concerns a cabaret girl who sets out to win a wealthy man. in order that she may injoy the Injuries that she only sees other people surrounded by The feature of this production is the frocking and the unusual climax, which gives a new twist to this type of drama. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ PICTURE NOTES. THE WORLD’S BEST PICTURES. In reviewing the world’s best picture plays one’s first thought is that it is regrettable that British pictures do not occupy the place of pride; but this regret is tinctured with the hope that if ever we do reach “the Promised Land of Picturedom,” the wait in the wilderness will not have been time entirely lost. We have seen the best the world can send us. and we ought to be able to profit by their triumphs and their faults. Viewed from the popular standpoint, there is no doubt that America leads all her rivals in the making of pictures, although, judged from the strict standpoint of art, she is probably nearer the bottom than the top. From a quite strict artistic point of view, German films occupy a very high place m the world’s market. Germany has produced artistic films, but they are not good entertainment, because the German producer seems unable to get away from the sordid sitje of life. Sweden has turned out many great pictures, but. like Germany, tier producers are slaves of realism. No story seems to appeal to them unlessit deals with the stark realism ot life. Swedish pictures are like Oliver Cromwell’s Puritans: they show nothing but the hard facts of life. British people like British things, and if onlv the British film industry could get its feet Britain should stand as good a chance as any other nation in getting s place in the world’s picture market. '

Fox Films have just completed “Womanpower.” a screen adaptation of the story “You Can’t Always Tell,” by Harold McGrath. The age-old power of woman over man ,for good and for evil, is the theme which forms this basis for this entertaining picture Margaret Livingston the “vamp” of “Havoc,” “When the Door Opened.” “Conquering Blood,” “A Trip to Chinatown,” and several

other Fox productions, is the cabaret girl id this latest, who is the force which drags the hero down, almost to bis ruin. Etalpb Grave; and Kalb ryn Perry ar* seen a* lovers, while other important roles are taken by Ralph Slpperly, Walter Buller. William Walling, Jerry Madden and Robert Edeson « * ♦ John Ford, Fox directional genius of “Iron Horse” fame, has been handed the scrip for ’Tie making of “The Story of Mother Marinee. 1 Rida Johnson Young wrote the words of this touching ballad, and also tbe novelette from which this Fox pro. duotioD is to be taken Ford hop's to make this picture a tru* «tury of the Irish enrgrants, -jnd par * ic*: I the bish mothers who sacrifice* much that their children will hare bappin«>af> John that nearly ail the stage and screen Irish stories are burlesques, and have failed to capture the imaginative but elusive spirit of the rare of whinh ho is such a Uue sod.