ENTERTAINMEMTS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 740, 23 June 1923, Page 3

ENTERTAINMEMTS.

EVERYBODY'S

"ONE EXCITING NIGHT

When he selected the story of "One Exciting Night," rhc "uper-feature now showing at Everybody's, Mr Griffith had Porter Strong in mind for tho central comedy character. Tho sensational success of the character of Romeo Washington is tho result. Griffith, having spent his early lifo on a Kentucky plantation, knows the Negro race thoroughly. Strong was born and grew up in St. Joseph, Missouri. As Romeo Washington, Strong reaches real heights of comedy, with the appeal of a truo human being.

MARK TWAIN FILM

FOR EVERYBODY'S THEATRE

As a special attraction Everybody i Theatre will show, beginning on Monday next, the big, now William Eox film version of Murk Twain's funniest book, "A Connecticut Yunkeo in King Arthur's Court." As readers of Mark Twain will realise, this book offers wonderful ;copo to a motion picture director, and it is surprising that no producer until no > tip) undertaken to put it on the- screen. ■, \\- Fox production is on a huge «cule, bringing out the full force of all the situations invented by Mark Twain's fertile imagination, and translating for the oye all tho splendour of mediaeval court life that Twain had doscribed in words. It aroused (ho greatest enthusiasm at a pie-release run at Lo 3 Angeles. "A Connecticut Yankee" is moro than funny; it conveys an argument of striking force. It sets out to prove the thesis that w% v..< as good as cur great-great-grandfather?. It is the fashion nowadays to talk of th<> "good old times"; Mark Twain shows-'us just what the "good old times" really were like. "A Connecticut Yankee" is an imaginative masterpiece. It puts a modern, shrewd, up-to-date young American against ■; background of mediaeval chivalry, and the humour is the result of the sharp contrast ROSY. Buuk Jones in "West of Chicago" and tiio Lee kiddies in "A Pair of Aces" are the chief attraction nt the Rosy. P iLACE. Katherine MncDonuld stars in "White Shoulders," which hfi<? a special appeal to ladies, but oy<VOT w!.-> sees it will enjoy it. A gouc ■'i:i;e ; ' on-I gazette complete the programme'. ' EMELIE POLINI-WIZARD. "MY LADY'S DRESS." On Monday next at the Opera House, J. C. Williamson will present Miss Emclie Polini, associated with Frank Harvey and a brilliant company in "My Lady's Dress." The box plans are open at Oates'. The scene of the play is first laid in a peasant's house in Italy, whuu tho hopes of human happiness depend oon a colony of silkworms, on thy product of which Poo hopes to marry Nina, but Nina is vain and weak, and to gain a pnltry 'kerchief, she flirts with Gioann, who, on finding that Nina is to "go to tho priest with Peo," takes a dovelish revenge by leaving the windows open, and so killing the warmth-loving worms. , . Stnrk misery marks the next scene —in Lyons, where, with a dying husband on her hands, Annette slaves at tho loom trying to make impossible ends meet. In a clean Dutch garden Anije (Anne again) confesses to her old nurso her loathing of tho bridegroom selected for her by her imperious parent, and on the arrival of tho latter, he i 3 cajoled into allowing his daughter to test tho man of his choice, a scenUid dandy from Amsterdam, "with hands as sweet as musk." Next a drab room in a Whitcchapol slum, with Annie, a plaintive, deformed maker of velvet flowers. ... In the wilds of Siberia, Ivan, an intellectual ex-convict, has married Anna, a woman of the soil. She, the clod, does not understand the man and his talk and so turns to the earthly Louka for consolation. Next is "Jacqueline's" of Bond street, with a mannilcin parude in full flare. with Anne noting the dresses and giddy old Sir Charles their wearers. After various scenes, Anno sees the hollowness of her petty artifices, and to John's delight bocomes her true sweet self, with better grace perhaps a* the telephone has informed her that she has duly landed the job for John.