ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 24, 28 December 1925, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

KOSY. “THE LULLABY” AND “VIRTUOUS LIARS.” In “The Lullaby,” •which is to bo shown to-night at the Kosy Theatre Jane Novak lias given screen lovers tho finest work of which sho is capable. Thero have been stories of mother love before, but there has been nothing to equal this story in dramatic appeal. It is a drama of realism —a glorious tribute to motherhood tho world over. “Tho Lullaby’ ’is a story of the city, that great monster of a million heads that takes within its powerful grasp the great, the small, tho wise, the foolish, elovating tho chosen few to positions of prominence and bestowing every favour upon them, or wringing tho heart’s blood from tho frail bodies of others. Who but Jane Novak could tell the story as it is told ? “Virtuous Liars” is another fine picture, tolling tho story of a society woman who fought the world for her child and her career and won out in tho end to happiness. Special supports are a most interesting Nows reel, and a more than usually good comedy. PALACE THEATRE “THE KING OF WILD HORSES.” “The King of Wild Horses,” a Pathe picture produced by Hal Hoach, is showing tonight at tho Palace Theatre. Bands of wild horses having once, in great numbers, roamed the south-western plains of America., Hal Roach sent his chief horse trainer, “Chick” Morrison, in search of a horse for the story he had written of a man-hating, wild stallion that becomes the loyal friend of a man who saves his life. After wandering through several states, Morrison found Ilex in the Stato Reformatory of Colorado a captive beast, shackled and untamed. His owners were not purposeful cruel, but the horso had killed several, maimed others and was an incorrigible outlaw. A few weeks of patienco and kindness and Morrison had Rex sufficiently manageable so that Fred Jackman could direct “The King of Wild Horses,” which makes tho claim of being tho most sensational drama over screened. Edna Murphy and Leon Bary aro prominently cast. “THREE WEEKS.” • Thero has been no greater analyser of love and its power for enobling than the English novelist, Elinor Glyn, whoso most sensational success, “Three Weeks,” has now been made into a motion picture by the Goldwyn Corporation. It has been booked at the Palaco Theatre, opening Thursday for three days. PARAMOUNT, “THE LIGHT OF WESTERN STARS.” In El Cajon, Gone Stewart, a dashing and popular cowboy, has vowed, at the climax of a drunken spree, to marry tho first girl who alights from the transcontinental train. Tho girl happens to be Madelino Hammond, who has como from tho cast, and Stowart discovers, just before tho marriage ceremony by force is finished, that sho is tho sister of his best friend, A 1 Hammond, a rancher. While the remorseful cowboy is offering his apologies to the gill, her brother, at tho local cantina, becomes involved in an argument with an outlaw chief over Bonita, a pretty Spanish girl. In the shooting that follows, Hammond kills one of Brand's men and promises to look out for Madeline. Thirsting for revenge, Brand raids the Hammond ranch repeatedly and drives off scores of cattle. Although sho hasn’t as yet forgiven him, Madeline swallows her pride and appeals to Stowart for help. Tho young cowboy arrives at the ranch just in timo to save the girl from Brand who has abducted her. Many exciting incidents follow and finally a pitched battle between the entrenched outlaws and tho rescuers comes as a climax. Stewart and

Brand fight it out hand-to-hand while Madelino waits for victory and happiness with her cowboy lover. Jock Holt, Noah Beery and Billio Dove aro in tho picture.

PICTURES AT OPERA HOUSE.

HUGE CHAPLIN SUCCESS. Seldom indeed in Palmerston North aro upwards of 1000 pcoplo turned away from the doors of a theatre, but such was the case when pictures were again screened at tho Opera House on Boxing night. The reserve plan was liberally availed of, but nt the opening hour a huge crowd packed tho foyer and extended all about the front of tho theatre and across’ tho roadway. Mr 11. E. Bennett, under whoso management a series of super-features aro to bo screened at tho Opera House, announced that no overcrowding would bo allowed even in tho pit. The reappearance of the original Palaco Theatre orchestra was signalised by applause and then the audience settled in its scats to watch tho screening of “The Gold Rush,” a Charlie Chaplin feature framed about tho gold rush days in Arctic Alaska. It is not a burlesque, but rather a dramatic setting for a senes of comic. incidents and for the irresistible acting of “the world's laughniaker.” As a lone prospector who takes tho, trail across the snows in a “hard hitter” and carrying a cane Charlie Chaplin presents a figure comic beyond belief. , His adventures in blizzards, his meeting with a noted “killer” and with tho finder of a mine of fabulous wealth, are crowded with mirthful moments. There is,, for instance, tho timo when Charlie and his companions are reduced to stewing and eating boots; when he is stalked by a “grizzly,” and when, with Big Jim McKay, he finds himself in a house balanced perilously on tho edge of a precipice. It is Chaplin in a new setting and as entertaining as in the days when ho acted in back street alloys or freak motor cars. Tho picturo will bo serened for five nights this week, a matineo taking placo each day at 2.30 p.m.