DE LUXE THEATRE.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 3 December 1929, Page 5

DE LUXE THEATRE.

BIG PROGRAMME TO-NIGHT. Those who attend the Do Luxe Theatre to-night are in for a mighty big surprise. Paramount's new novelty drama represents just as big a step from the beaten path as did many others. It has thrill piled upon thrill, no scene being more exciting than the final sequence in which father and son fight for the same girl. Down the seething torrents to liberty and new life —just he and she. Their craft a log. No rudder, no sail, no engine, but freedom at the perilous journey's end. The hero is thrown from his father's home into the flooded creek when he opposes his father's indomitable will by pleading for the young girl hi? father has taken to wife. Seeing the boy, unconscious, dinging to a Bpar in midstream, she grasps an axe, and fights her way out of the cabin. Then —but don't miss "Stark Love"! It is said to mark a definite advance in cinematic art. Also showing to-night, is "A Harp in Pawn" which features many con tracts, it is the story of an Irish lad who arrives in a new world, and finds his mother i.s dead; who is befriended by a kindly old Jew; meets with rebuffs and hardships on every side. It brings Rudolph Schildkraut anu Junior Coghlan together again in a production quaint in presentation and vivid in delineation. Usual prices are being charged, therefore, with two such features showing as the above, there should be a lurge attendance. THE RED DANCE. SPECIAL FEATURE FOR THURSDAY. The story of "The Red Dance" deals ■with the disturbed conditions existing in Russia prior to the revolution. Tasia, a peasant girl, is sold to the gigantic Bolshevik leader, Ivan Petroff, for a horse, but the very soul of the girl cries out against this outrage and her mind becomes obsesjed -with a. spirit of revenge. How this spirit is played upon and how she becomes a pawn in the great revolutionary movement, makes one of the greatest screen stories yet produced. Tasia's great love for a Russian prince whom Petroff has set out to destroy eventually finds a responding chord in the rough naturo of the great Bolshevik and his good nature demonstrates itself when he assists the lovers to escape. Dolores del Rio and Charles Farrell are the featured players. The box plan is now open at Stannard's.