THE PICTURE HOUSES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 211, 20 August 1927, Page 6

THE PICTURE HOUSES.

MUNICIPAL. One of the commonest and most tragic situations in modern life, that of the married couple who suddenly acquire great riches and find that their wealth is estranging them is the story told in “Perch of the Devil. ’’ King Baggot’s latest Universal production which comes to the Municipal Theatre to-night. Gertrude Atherton author of the novel from which the' picture story was taken, based er plot in Butte, Montana, and made her heroine an ambitious, tremendously attractive young girl of no position who muffles a young mining engineer. When he suddenly realised great wealth from his mining properties, both realise that she is not fitted for a social position, and she makes a desperate struggle to keep her husband by working furiously to elevate herself to bis position. The players, in addition to Mae Busch and I’at O’Malley are Jane Winton, Theodore Von Eltz, Mario Carillo, Lincoln Steadman, Gertrude Oakman, Martha Franklin, and George Kuwa. Also will be shown Chapter 3r of “Whispering Wives’’ and many minor supports. COSY DE LUXE. “Peroxide on a ladies' dome may help to keep a husband home,’’ but with Adolphe Menjou, in “Blonde and Brunnette it was quite useless. As the hero of this sprightly Parisian farce, Monsieu Menjou loves laughs at and actually marries a blonde miss. But that’s not all. Their marriage isn’t a success so they divorce and he tries married life with a brunette and — Arlette Marchal is the second lady; Greta Nissen the first. Yet they say movie stars are unlucky! In addition to these two, Adolphe also has the advantage of Richard Rosson's intelligent direction. The supporting picture is the“ Return of Peter of Peter Grimm” with Alex B. Francis in the title part. The charm of the piece is said to be in its simplicity of treatment rather than its philosophy, .the atmosphere maintained throughout and the sterling performances of the fine cast which includes Janet Gaynor, and Richard Walling, wnofii we recently saw in “The Mid-night Kiss,”’ John Roche, John St. Polis and Lionel Belmore. HAVELOCK NORTH. “Ypres,” the British war picture which comes to Havelock North on Tuesday, is not just and ord'nary movie. It is an historic record, telling in dramatic and thrilling style the story of the Ypres Salient which was probably the most continuously dramatic sector of tho whole war; it ungolds the great deeds of regiments and individual heroes. You will see cannon firing shells bursting, and trenches. There are several scenes in trenches that nobody not even the old troops should miss. Real trenches, broken lousy looking trenches, and one trench in particular up to the knees in mud, with a poor old sanitary corporal sort of lad carrying rations up it with a sniper potting at him. Tanks are shown, pill boxed, bivvies, gun pits, ration waggons, one by one the properties of the old days go pictured past. No war picture made after the event has ever yet given so graphic a presentation of the war in so many of its phases as “Ypres.” The old soldier will have the time of his life taking his parents or his wife and children to see this picture. “ZEEBRUGGE.” On Monday and Tuesday, at the Municipal Theatre, afternoon as well as evening, the pictures of the atr took on the mole at Zeebrugge will be screened. This was probably the most daring exploit pf the war and one that will go down in history as a record of daring and intrepid courage in the face of great danger. The picture is unusual in that most of the scenes were taken during the actual attack and clearly reveal the nature of the difficulties that had to be contended with. The other reconstructed scenes are faithfully depicted and in keeping with the picture at a whole. Before the screening of “Zeebrugge” Mr. J. Bewley will sing “The Glory of the Sea” (Sanderson) with orchestral accompaniment specially arranged by Mr. Gladstone Hill. Buses will leave Havelock North at 7.15 sharp both nights.