PICTURES.

Hutt News, Volume 1, Issue 15, 6 September 1928, Page 5

PICTURES.

SATUEDAY THE SHIELD OF HONOUR

Never has the inside workings of a ! metropolitan police force been so vividly portrayed as in " The Shield of Honour" the Universal production which [ comes to the King George Theatre on Saturday. Dan MeDowell, veteran officer and his son Jack who is to be the first flying officer in the force, are being honoured at a celebration of the addition of the aviation division to tke department. Grwen Day 'Day, daughter of a wealthy jeweller christens the new plane and Jack immediately becomes interested in her. A thrilling climax with a spectacular airplane race^ and t air fightig galore furnish this picture with some of the most melodramatic plots in the history of the aviation division of the law. The stellar cast embraces such well known players as Neil Hamilton, Balp Lewis, Dorothy Gulliver, Thelma Tocld, Joe Girard, and a host of others. Emory Johnson directed the picture. *'The Shield of Honour" will tear at your heart strings, wrap your imagination in mystery, flush you hot and cold with thrills, tingle every nerve in your body with action, raise you out [of yourself with conflict, warm you with the eternal romance of youth. It is a picture that must be seen! "GOOD TIME CHARLEY" Saturday's attraction at the King George Theatre is "Good Time Charley" featuring Helene Costello, Warner Oland and Clyde Cook, and' including in the east Montagu Love, Julane Johnstone, Hugh Allan and others. It is the story of a song1 and dance man, with a small town stock company. Hap-py-go-lucky, always able to get a laugh his triumph ends abruptly when word is brought that his wife has been killed. He is left with a small daughter and a pal, his partner in the turn he does in the show. Years pass and the daughter becomes a star. Good Time Charley's star wanes as he rises and a series of unexpected events carry him down a pathetic and often amusing slope until he lands in the Home for Old Actors. It is here that the great climax occurs. One of the most human and utterly absorbing dramas of the generation. MONDAY AND TUESDAY "SERENADE" Made by the director of two great juceesses from the story by one of the most notable.contemporary playwrights "Serenade," the Paramount picture , Adolphe Menjou at the King George Theatre next Monday and Tuesday, romises to eclipse everything in which this popular* stais has appeared.. Kathryn Carver who was opposite him in "Service for Ladies" will be seen again as Menjou's leading' woman in this woman in this picture. At the.opening, Menjou is shown as a struggling and oft-times destitute .young composer, Franz Ra?si. His works have- met with only indifferent, success. When he meets Kathryn Carver, Gretehen, he I his music has lacked "the inspiration of love, which it thenceforth receives and verriight the young composer's operetta becomes a sensation, presented at the Vienna Opera House, and whistled and sung in every land and language. The sweetheart has become a wife when the fame and adulation turn Franz Rossi's head, and these factors are abetted by the siren ballerino of the opera played by" sLina Basquette. Menjou neglects I his wife who has lifted . him to the heights by her devotion. She discovers his duplicity. Around this is built the great dramatic, situation of the play. The eternal triangle is solved once , more*, and this time in a manner that leaves a warm sympathetic glow as well as sweet sentiment and a sense of justice triumphing. A very capable cast includes Lawrence Grant, Martha I Franklin, and Grace Gordon. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. "LOVE ME, AND THE WORLD IS MINE." Dazzling in its atmospheric splendour, throbbing with, drama and inspiring with artistry of direction, "Love Me, and the World is Mine" the Universal production is truly one of the important '•*milestones in motion picture achievement. All the promise of "Variety* that great German production released in America a, short time ago is fulfilled in "Love Me, and the World is Mine." Although the picture is essentially a directorial truimph, it is also a truimph for the individual members of the cast. Mary Philbin in her role of the pathetic little Austrian girl. Hannerl rises to a performance which is likely to remain in the minds-and hearts of her and-