ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2544, 29 November 1924, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

KOSY. Two big features, each of seven reels, are being shown at the Kosy to-day. “My Old Kentucky Home," ppicture nearly as good as. “Way Down East” and Floodgates,’’ a Universal melodrama of the great out-doors, with a devastating flood as a climax, make ■’cellent faro, PALACE. “Why Men Leave Home," an eightreel First National featuring L e wls Stone with Helene Chadwick, Mary Carr and Alma Bennett is as fine a picture as we have seen for a long time. It is great entertainment, and at the same time gives one something to think about. A comedy and a News are also showing. EVERYBODY’S. The usual week-end programme will be screened at Everybody's Theatre to-night. Tho feature rth-' traction is an excellent comedy “Roughest Africa," This picture has lately been screened i'n Wellington a'ad Auckland, whore it caused much amusement, and was regarded as the outlying comedy success. It is most original in conception arid introduces a number of mirth-provoking “stunts” of a new order. A good drama, “Tho Bargain," is also listed for screening, while the “Pathe News’’ and "Pathe Review" will enhance, thoquality and variety of the evening’s offering.

PARAMOUNT THEATRE.

“THE STRANGER."

m the Joseph Henabery production “The Stranger,” now at the Paramount, is an exact reproduction of Old Bailey Court, in which a trial takes place. Betty Compson, Richard Dix, Lewis Sto'ne and Tully Marshall are featured in “The Stranger." Marshall, who is the title character, occupies the modern prisoners’ dock in the dramatic court scene, in which he Is found guilty of a murder he did not commit. The supporting pictures includes a clever Joe Rock comedy en-. titled “The Love Birds,” together with the latest Burton Holmes travelogue and Paramount Gazette. The music of the Paramount orchestra, under the direction of Mrs R. S. Law, is again a feature of the programme. The box plan is at C. G. Swallow’s. ZANE GREY’S "TO THE LAST MAN.

The genuine backwoodsman is apparently replacing the scenery carpenter in the construction of motion picture sets for work on location. Improved lighting and photography and ■the fact that most audiences are wise have made it necessary, state directors, to build the real thing instead o,f false sets. In the filming of “To the Last Man,” a Zane Grey production, coming to the Paramount Theatre next Monday, an exact reproduction of a pioneer settlement in the rugged mountains of Arizona was made ' in •the Tonto Babin. On this trip into •the wilds, the scenery carpenters were left behind, and a group of axemen eniistd who could hew real logs rather than juggle paper mache. A reproduction of a settlement consisting of twelve dwellings, the lower stories of which were built of stone, was made. Logs were used and also rough-htwn board to complete the buildings. Victor Fleming directed the picture for Paramount and the featured players are Richard Dix and Lois Wilson, with Noah Been’, Robert Edeson and Frank Campeau in support. The story is that of a feud fought out literally to the last man. It was adapted from a novel by Zane Grey. SCHOOL CONCERT. “THE MAGIC RUBY." The pleasa'nt operetta staged by the College Street school' children proved a great attraction at tho Opera House last night, when the second .and final performance was held. The children showed more confidence than the previous night, a’ad the large audi-

cnee which crowded the Opera House hvas afforded a real treat with the spectacular display of the 120 children dressed to represent the cosmopolitan gathering at a Hindu fete. The little performers showed a remarkable aptitude for their various parts, and needed no prompting. Much credit is due to the teachers, as well as to the children-, themselves, and further performances of. ..this - nature are sure to be welcomed by the public generally. MISS DIANA TABOR’S DISPLAY OP - DANCING. ' As will be seen in our advertising columns, the box plan for this eagerly awaited entertainment opens this morning at Oates’ music stor.es, and patrons would be well advised to book early, A pleasing feature of the entertainment will be the singing or Meg and Theo Knyvett, two Lyric sopranos of a very high order. One item that should receive vociferous appaluse will be a smart Coon song "Cotton-Land,” by Grace Taylor, Shona Burrows and Cathio Brown, which includes a dashing and quaint ragtime ballet. Another pleasing feature will be the graceful dance

"The Heart of a Rose.” by Betty Amos, while Grace Taylor as “The Blue Bird of Happiness” show talent above the average. One of the star items of the programme will be the simultaneous step dance by ‘Miss ■Diana Tabor and Miss Barbara Han cock, while Miss Gladys Donz In an eccentric dance and Irish Jig will show talent of a very high order.