PICTURES

Hutt News, Volume 1, Issue 4, 14 June 1928, Page 5

PICTURES

FINE PBOaBAMMBS AT KENCt GEOBGE THEATBE, SOME SP"P. "EATUBES SATURDAY. Here's the story of a steel worker who, when he found he had knocked out the coming world's champion, wondered what would happen next. Ho didn 't have to wait long, and even his favourite dog didn't know him. So he set to work and the years found him in love and in line for the championship with the name of "Knockout" Boilly. How he won both is thrillingly told in the story of "Knockout Beilly" at the King' George Theatre. The climax is one of the most,,thrilling ring events that you have witnessed. And it's a real dinkum go. Bichard Dix and Mary Brian tare the stars iqf. this Paramount picture. McAvoy and Nagei Era Praise in V "Sligfcfcly TTsed." A new May McAvoy skips deftly through the screamingly funny situations of Warner Bros.' production of "Slightly Used/* directed by Archie Mayo. As an elder sister, who hits upon the idea of a fictitious marriage to onable her younger sisters to marry, she starts a most amusing series of situations. Proper Aunt Lydia is in on the deal too,-much to her distaste and apprehension. Daddy swallows the tackle, sinker and all, when Cynthia shows him the* ring, and announces that her hubby, a .Major Smith, has just sailed for Nicaragua to join his regiment. Then a nice young man comes alongand, Cynthia wishes she hadn '£ married. Making herself a widow, by death notices in the papers, seemed the easiest way out, but this caused a Major Smithy who happened to be in a Nicaragua hospital, to investigate. JClaiming to be a Major Adams, bosom friend of the deceased, he called upon the merry widow. To make things worse, daddy liked him and decided to keep him around a while. Meanwhile "Major Adams" sought Qjmthia's company assiduously, as she avoided his. He could speak, so it seemed, of nothing but the Major and the sad manner of hi* death " MO2TOAY. The Petone Benefit Entertainers wHI give one of their very fine performances. TUESDAY. j A • owexful Boinance. If you were a young man, extremely handy with a brace of sixrghooters, and a beautiful girl planted herself stubbornly in your way at a moment when you wore about to start a heavy shooting affray, how wonld you handle the situation?

This is Gary Cooper's introduction to Thelma Todd, leading woman, in the nqw Zane Grey story, "Nevada," filmed by Paramount. Cooper picks her up and disregarding her struggles, shoves, her into a stage coaoh. With the street clear, he proceeds to do a lot of busi-nefes-like- shooting to free Ms pal, Ernie S. Adams, from. gaol.

But from them on, Cooper is fated to meet th> girl at every turn he makes., Sometimes he is in her way—at others she is in his. But he succeeds eventually in blocking the design of William Powell, smooth Western villain, and after a number of hectic teessions of gun play, proves himself worthy of Miss; Tpdd's affections.

WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, An Outstanding: Programme. Paul Leni, the noted European director, scores another cinematic triumph with his latest production, "The Chinese Parrot/ the Universal-Jewel filmdrama, picturized from Earl Derr Bigger'a novel of the isam^ name. It is the feature attraction at the King George Theatre this week. Included in the all-star cast of this thrilling mystery picture play are Marion JSTipcon, Hobart Bdsworth, Edmund Burns, Florence Turner, Sojin, Captain Albert Conti, Slim Summerville, Anna May "Wong, George Kuwa and a dozen other popular and well known sereon players.

'' Figures Don 't Lie, \ * especially when they belong to such a beauty as Esther Ralston. Here's a picture for the tired business man, and they will appreciate the role of Ford Sterling in the picture, whose secretary Miss Ralston is. And she is efficient to keep Ford up to the scratch every time, even to getting one over his jealous wife.