ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2313, 4 December 1925, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS

HAROLD LLOYD IN “GIRL SHY.” Harold Lloyd, the famous comedian of horn-rimmed spectacle fame, will appear in “Girl Shy,” one of hia best productions to date, at the Palace Theatre on Monday. The story, which is full of the usual Lloyd fun from start to finish, deals with the adventures of a tailor’s apprentice in a small town, who is afraid or all women, though in reality loves almost everyone of the opposite sox he comes in contact with. When, however, Lloyd meets the one girl in all the world his shyness fades away and instead of the usually bashful boy the tailor’s apprentice Is suddenly turned into a dashing hero of the dare-devil kind,‘Who stop s at nothing in order to create a good impression. For good, pure, wholesome fun, “Girl Shy” is hard to beat. PALACE THEATRE. PLAYING WITH SOULS. This week's attraction at the Palace Theatre Is the Thomas H. Ince Corporation’s production, “Playing with Souls,” a First National reeiase. Clive Brook,, taken to America from England to play in "Christine of the Hungry Heart,” plays the role of Mathew Dale, cynical, unfeeling husband and father. Bello Bennett plays the role of Amy Dale, the mother and wife, who cares nothing but to keep her youth. She is, in a great measure, to blame for Dale’s cynicism. Their son is played by William Collier, jnr. The story has to do with the utter loneliness the boy feels from the time his mother (when she separates from the father) puts him in a boys’ school in France until he is old enough to fall in love—and the effects of those empty years not only upon the youth coming into man’s estate, but the father and mother as well. Mary Aster is very sweet ana charming as'the little girl with whom young Collier falls in love, while Jacqueline Logan, as a fascinating and vivacious cabaret dancer in a Paris Cafe, gives perhaps the finest portrayal of her career.

ROSY. FINE DOUBLE BILL. The United Artists production of "The Love Piker", proved to be novel and interesting at its premier presentation at the Kosy theatre lasi night. The pic lure scored heavily. Anita Stewart, well-known star, is cast as Hope Warner, who considers herself a superior person. When a traffic officer stops her for exceeding the speed limit she waxes indignant. Close behind comes Martin Van Huisen, who steps out of his car and hands Hope a sable scarf, explaining that it had fallen from her car some twenty miles back. Both are arrested for speeding. So it is that this pair meet again in the traffic court next morning. It develops that Martin is construction engineer in the employ of Hope’s father. It is not long before Hope announces he- engagement to Martin. Many surprising and unexpected incidents mark their courtship. episodes that are best loft for the picture to reveal. “A Roaring Adventure” starring Jack Hoxte is the second feature in a good all round programme. The outlaws who were stealing his father’s cattle thought he was a tenderfoot so they let him ride around the country at will. Even the girl he loved thought he was just a milksop from the big city. But mo/i, like books, sometimes have deceiving covers, as the rustlers learned too late and the girl, almost too late. The comedies are both good, and news fine.

PARAMOUNT. “DRESSMAKER FROM PARIS.” “The Dressmaker from Paris,” a Paramount picture featuring Beatrice Joy and Ernest Torrence, which is now showing at the Paramount Theatre, is a story of Fifi, a little French midinette, who becomes Paris’s foremost fashion designer. The story opens with the accidental meeting of Fifi and Billy Brent, an American army officer. They fall in love, only lo have Brent ordered to the front. The scene shifts. Bront is now junior partner in the Emporium, a department store in clarion, Illinois, owned by Torrence, playing Angus McGregor. Brent’s ideas on selling are radically different from those of McGregor, and % sends for the famous Madame Louise to stage a fashion show in the emporium and bolster up trade. Imagine Bront when Fifi puts in an appearance. He is glad enough to see her to be sure, but mosses things all up trying Lo explain to her that he is engaged to Joan, McGregor’s daughter. Both Billy and Fifi manage to misunderstand each other perfectly, and it’s a truly laughable situation for eevryone, that is .but Brent and Fifi. There are fourteen mannequins in the picture, played by Fourteen International Beauty Models, selected by Paramount atfer a world-wide search.