THE PICTURE HOUSES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 12, 28 December 1926, Page 4

THE PICTURE HOUSES.

COSY DE LUXE. » The rough, rugged type of excitement i.i holding the screen at the Cosy Theatre this change where '“Combat,” the Universal-Jewel starring House Peters, is playing. The lumber camp furnishes the background for this colourful talc. In the background of the picture are as hard a looking aggregation of tough characters as were ever assembled any place short of the frontier or tho backwoods. The action of tho picture is rapid and the dramatic tone is intense. This picture is thoroughly worth-while entertainment and furnished an insight into the life of the backwoodsman, Wanda Hawley has chief actresses part, playing opposite House Peters, and excellent support is furnished by C. E. Anderson, Charles Mailes, Steve Clomcnto and Howard Truesdell. The second feature is Thomas Meighan in ‘‘The New Klondyke. ” An exciting story of Florida, in which baseball plays a large part. Lila Lee is the lady in the case. The customary supports are shown. MUNICIPAL. No pictures will bo shown at the Municipal Theatre, Hastings, to-night, but commencing to-morrow, for three, night and throe matinees, Sir James Barrie’s masterpiece, “Peter Fan,” will be shown. Those who have seen the picture in the metropolitan circuits are unanimous in saying that the spirit of the play has been preserved intact and that the story has not been altered in any way. As Barrie, himself supervised tho production ,and chose tho star, Betty Bronson, one can be certain of this. Betty Bronson makes a wonderful “Peter Pan,” and the pirate leader, Captain Hook, is well played by Ernest Taironee Other featured players are Anna May Wong, Cyril Chadwicke, Virgina Brown Fairc. Some marvellous technical effects of the screen are to bo seen in this production. The little fairy Tinker Bell, is seen fluttering like a luminous moth through the Darling nursery and in tho Never-Never Lund, and then the priate ship is seen to leave the water and fly through the air. All such effects as these, usually done in a rather stilted fashion, are in this ease executed convincingly but yet with the essential fairly-liko atmosphere always present.