THE PICTURE HOUSES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 212, 22 August 1927, Page 7

THE PICTURE HOUSES

MUNICIPALL. On the night of St. George’s Day, 1918 there left Britain's shores as weirii a collection of sea-craft as was even seen afloat. Ancient cruisers motor-boats, a submarine monitors', ferry-boats i etc., manned by an intrepid band of sailors and marines,' 2,000 in all, their object, to attack and render useless the German submarine base at Zeebrugge. The need to cripple Germany’s submarine warfare was indeed pressing. Britain was threatened by starvation through the continued sinkings of her food-ships by the German submarines. How the little band of heroes made the attack, how they achieved their purpose and how the wonderful remnant were then able to withdraw and return to England, has been made into a marvellous picture film, which will be shown at the Municipal Theatre to-night and to-morrow night, matinees also Being given. The making of this film is in itself a great achievement of which the British producer may well be proud. In support is shown '‘Perch of the Devil.” The scenes of which are laid in the mines around Butte and in the smart hotels of continental Europe, where the'woman of the story sojourns to get relief from the tedium of married life. Pat O’Malley and Mae Bush are starred. COSY DE LUXE. Every so often some motion picture concern turns out a production which is off the beaten path. A picture as it were, that one is inclined to talk of long after seeing it. Which is certainly true of “The Return of Peter Grimm,” which opened at the Cosy Theatre on Saturday night. “The Return of Peter Grimm” deals with life’s gieafesi question—can the dead commune with the living? Tho play did not attempt to answer this question. Neither does the picture. But the great problem is presented in vivid fashion and the spectator is permitted to draw his or her own conclusion. Richard Wallington and Janet Gaynor have th'e leading romantic roles with Alee B. Francis as “Peter Grimm.” Jiiun Roeho play tho villain to perfection. til support is shown “Blonde or Brunnette” with Adolphe Menjau as a gentleman who could noldecide whether to prefer Greta Nissen, the blonde, or Arlette Marechai the brunette. After trying married life with both his preferences are about equally divided, and he appears, to try and be as much a bachelor as a man who has been twice married, and once divorced can lie. This is a most amusing farco-conicdy anil banned to those under sixteen years. “YPRES” AT HAVELOCK.

Opening on the first battle of Ypres with the loss and ro-captirt-e of Gheluvet, tho capture of Hill 60, the second battle in which the Germans introduced poison gas to tho West Front and in which Geddes “Details’ ! achieved immortality, the launching of the trench raids, which were vital in the exploding of 19 mines, which had been eighteen months in preparation, and the attack on Passchendale the picture closes when the road to the channel forts has forever been made impassable to the German Forces. It is a glorious tribute to the New Zealand Division, with not one studied appeal to the emotions and for that very reason it is emotionally overpowering. It is a picture that should be seen by every citizen of the British Empire, Havelock North will have tho opportunity of seeing this fine film on Tuesday night