ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 87, 12 March 1926, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS.

PALACE TO-NIGHT. GREAT CAST IN “NELLIE.” “Nellio, the Beautiful Cloak Model,” the famous Owen Davis melodrama, has been reproduced on tho screen by Emmett Flynn lor the Goldwyn studios, and received its local premiere at the Palace {Theatre last night. The picture is .remarkable from eevry standpoint. A cast composed of the biggest names of the screen interpret the various roles. Claire Windsor is delightful as “Nellie." She has nover appeared more beautiful than when arrayed in tho gorgeous creations which she wears in this picture. Lew' Cody, Mae Busch, Hobart Bosworth, Raymond Griffith and Edmund Eowe do exceptional work. Lilyan Tashmann, ex-Follies beauty, in this pioture shows great promise. The story is essentially a melodrama. Ono whirling aequenco moves into another with lightning rapidity. Tho elevated tracks ot New York are employed to provide thrills for one soquonce. The fire scene in the modisto shop holds one breathless. A more realistic firo scene is hardly obtainable. Nellie is kidnapped from her home. Bhe is forced to work and save for her adopted father, who in reality is an old suitor of her mother’s. When she reaches .womanhood she has to seek work in a modiste shop. Her troubles multiply rapidly, providing plenty of excitement for *ny screen audience. PARAMOUNT. “WELCOME HOME.” All the warmth of life and love, the joy of home and fireside, all tho happiness and comfort of family and friends are contained in the greatest of greetings, “Welcome Home.” Such words can bo made Jto live, and James Gruze has given them life in a motion picture. Tor “Welcome Home” is tho title of his latest production for Paramount, and to it he is said to have given a heart interest that will appeal to all. In the beginning Luko Cosgrave is shown coming to the city to make his home with Warner Baxter and Lois Wilson, as Fred and Nettie Prouty, his son and daughter-in-law, on their invitation. They live in a small flat overlooking Washington Park, and their faithful maid of all work has quit because she had to give up her room, the only spare one in the house, to Cosgrave. Cosgrave’s arrival is premature, causing Fred and Nettie to cancel a party engagement they had planned on for weeks, for they felt they couldn’t leavo the old man alone on his first night in the house. On the arrival the old man immediately begins making himself at home. Then follow the adventures which lead up to a real family quarrel. Ignorant of tho mischief he has caused, Cosgrave goo 3 over to an old people’s home, whore his friends entertain nim royally, and urgo him to take the one vacancy in the home bofore someone else gets in. On this point hinges the yery fine climax of the picture.