ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 187, 13 July 1925, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

PALACE. “WHY WORRY” (HAROLD LLOYD). How can Harold IJoyd keep up the pace? That is a question that has puzzled, people inside tho motion picture industry as well as tho’millions of followers Lloyd has won ,by his clean, wholesome comedy on the screen. Yet he does. Ho followed “A Snilor-Mado Man” with a great picture in “Grandma’s Boy.” He maintained the pace with “Dr. Jack,” and with “Safety Last" lie hit a notch which many felt it would he impossible for him to hit again. Nevertheless, he has in “Why Worry?” a sixreel farce which will be shown at the Palace Theatre to-night. “Why Worry?” will win many new friends for Lloyd. It is going to prove that, Lloyd cannot set a puce too fast for himself. Each picture he makes it becomes more difficult, of course, for him fo equal it’s predecessor, but by a greater effort he always docs. “Why Worry?” was seven months actually in production. 110 started it in December, and the finishing touches were not put on it until June, or just before Harold, and his young bride, Mildred Davis, left for New York on their 'delayed honeymoon. ■ Few pictures take so long in work. It was a difficult production to make, yet the harder they are the more vigour Lloyd and his staff put back of their efforts. Lloyd has never taken a step backward. He always travels forward. The whole programme is comedy. “Grief in Bagdad” is an animal comedy, and '‘Lumber Jacks” a clever cartoon. Tjie Fox News is the only serious item in tho bill. KOSY. “THIS FREEDOM” AND “IN LOVE WITH LOVE” “This Freedom,” a Master picture, the companion picture to “if Winter Comes,” and written by the same author, A. S. M. 'Hutchinson, is a drama that, echoes the oftrepeated suggestion that “a woman's place is at home.” Is a woman’s constant yearning for a man’s full life real or natural? That is the theme of “This Freedom.” ’today women are orating on-platforms, pleading in courts, serving on juries and debating in Parliament, and only a yearning for more of life's opportunities forces them there. But what, of the “sum” with which they obtain this freedom. Often it is at tho price of ruined homes and the torturing of tho finest feminine instincts, and in breaking out into this so-called “wider life.” It is very doubtful if women have really conquered freedom, or only exchanged real liberty for servitude, and are merely becoming slaves to an alien and unnatural existence. “This Freedom” proves whether women can be free in the modern sense. Miss Fay Compton, the talented English actress, plays the part of the modern woman with Clive Brook sharing the honour of co-starring. “This Freedom” is showing just now at the Kosy. with a. 6-reel comedydrama, “in Love With Love,” featuring Marguerite do la Motle and Allan Forrest. There are- four short subjects also included in this 3j-hour programme

PARAMOUNT. “YOU ARE GUILTY.” •Tames Kirkwood. Doris Kenyon, Robert Kdeson, Mary Carr, Edmund Rreuse and Russell Griffin star in the picture. “You Are Guilty,” commencing at the Paramount this evening. It lias been enthusiastic-ally praised in every city where it has been played. “You Are Guilty.” These words, pronounced by the court, wrecked the life of an innocent man, sent him from the girl he loved, sent him from the mother who adored him and made him a- world wanderer on life’s highway. Would you accept the promise of a self-confessed thief and allow him to induce you to take his guilt on your shoulders to save from shame those you loved? This is the problem that confronts Steve Martin (played by James Kirkwood). The fallacy of convicting a- man on circumstantial evidence is clearly shown in the picture. In conjunction with the allstar picture programme is a. bewildering performance by Chur. Yuen Tai. llis performance wilh silks, dice and other paraphernalia is-wery startling, and the Eastern atmosphere of his act. is never absent. Chun Yuen Tai has had great experience in the world of mystery, having for years been a-fisocia.ted with tiie leading magicians cf the Far East, so that he ranks among the greatest- now. Those seeking an entertainment full of mystery, merit and magic should avail themselves of the opportunity to-night of witnessing this great performer. Special music will be remleredby the Paramount select orchestra. The box plans are at Swallow’s.

“THE CREATION." ON WEDNESDAY EVENING. No oratorio gives more scope for fine orchestral work than does Haydn’s “Creation,” which is being produced by the Choral and Orpheus Societies on Wednesday evening. The introduction, tho “Representation of Chaos.” is a wonderful piece of tone painting. The seething of a great mass of instruments, delicate flute passages, fill our minds with a. vague sense of matter in its primeval, half molten, formless stale. Again, mingled with the downward swoop of the disobedient angels, comes the wellknown tender little passage on the violins leading into the. tuneful choral phrase, “A new created world springs up at God’s command.” Among the choruses, “The Heavens are telling.” stands pre-eminent, and the well-trained and augmented choir can be relied upon to rise to. the occasion. .Madame Amy Woodward needs no introduction to the Palmerston Korin public — her rendition of the famous solo. “With Verdure Clad.” having gained for her a Dominion reputation—while Messrs William Watters and Arthur Ripley stand unapproached as bass and tenor soloists. Only a few scats are left unbooked at the office at G. 11. Bennett’s. The final rehearsal will be held in the Opera, House to-morrow night at 7.30, when tho full choir, orchestra and soloists will he present. “LONG TACK SAM.” On Thursday evening next. for one night only, at the Opera House, Long Tack Sam and a company of .T. C. Williamson vaudeville artists, will appear. Concerning this company the New Zealand Times, Wellington, says: —“Patrons at the Opera House had one of the host vaudeville programmes placed before them that has appeared in Wellington for many a long day, every minute of it full of excellent music, dancing, or good fun. Arthur Mayes, London’s basso cantante, led off with a delightful trio of songs, and his magnificent but well-controlled'| voice evoked the greatest appreciation. Chris. Charlton, the royal illusionist of London, gave an entertaining display of conjuring (ricks, some old friends and some quite new and mystifying. No more superb dancing has been seen than the display given by Addison and Milrenga, fresh from London to New Zealand. Moran and Wiser, the hilarious hat-spinners from New York, in “All in Fun,” gave one of the most nov<sl turns seen on the vaudeville stage. Next came Novelle Brothers, the musical acrobatic 'clowns from Paris, doing somersaults backwards and forwards, and all sorts of tumbling, each the while playing violins and keeping time with the orchestra. The company is headed by I/ong Tack Sam. The box plans opened this morning at Oates’.