THE PICTURE HOUSES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 207, 16 August 1927, Page 3

THE PICTURE HOUSES.

COSY DE LUXE. “The Great K and A Train Robbery’’ is a story of hard-riding desperadoes, an agile quickwitted horseman and airtight situations, out of which the detective must fight or race his way to safety. It was filmed in the Royal Gorge, the grandest of all America’s scenic spots and the camera has caught all the rugged beauty of the coloured location. Mix on Tony, carrying a girl on his saddle, rides alongside a railway train and lifts her to the observation platform. 'Then he leaps aboard and is mistaken for a bandit. With these as the opening scenes the picture drama rushes through a succession ol thrilling escapes and pursuits until the detective at the actual scene of the robbery foils the outlaws. In the part of Madge Cullen Miss Dwan is called upon to do some of the most daring riding ever executed by a woman. “Love ’Em and Leave ’Em,” the supporting picture, opens in a New York Citv department store and alternating between it, Central Pmk and a typical boarding house. The story of two sisters—common enough as stories go—a thing of absorbing interest. MUNICIPAL. Caaptin Bruce Bairnsfather, as everyone knows, made his name as a cartoonist during the war with Qis creation of Old Bill. Though Bairnsfather’s individual pictures are now being forgotten the character he created, and the one picture in which Bill advises All' “If you know of a better ole, go to it!”, will not ne forgotten. The spirit of the cartoon, a blend of stoicism and humour, accounts far its lasting, there being the two qualities on which the Britisn Army’s fame is primarily based. The title “The Better ’Ole” has been taken for Syd. Chaplin’s war picture and in it Chaplin himself plays the role of Old Bill with Jack Ackroyd as Alf. It will have been noticed in the recent war pictures that a more natural touch has been introduced than there was in the earlier pictures. Some time has passed since the war; the older war pictures were filmed too close to the time of the actua; occurrences and so were of a some what mock heroic and sentimental nature. The events of the war are now in proper perspective and though one has had to wait, the result usually has justified the waiting. HAVELOCK NORTH. Another smashing story, filled with action, which permits Richard Talmadge to be seen at his best, is “American Manners “ coming to the Havelock North Theatre tn-nighL As the boy who runs down the rings of smugglers and saves the reputation of his father, a shipping magnate, Mr Talmadge is given a splendid opportunity to “do his stuff”; of which ho avails himself to the full. This raising young star is capably supported by a large cast, which includes among its members, Helen Lynch Lee Shumway Mark Fenton, Pat Harmon Arthus Melotte William Turner, George Warde, Victor Mctzetti, and Otto Mctzetti. In support is screened “ The School for the picturisation of Leonard Merrick’s novel, “The Home of Lynch.” The theme of the tale is how money comes between an artist and his ambitions.