ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2314, 5 December 1925, Page 15

ENTERTAINMENTS

ROSY. The long programme now showing at the Kosy contains two really fine features, “A Love Piker” and ‘‘A Roaring Adventure” with two comedies and a news. Every picture shown is good of its various kind. PAIiACE. r^' "PLAYING WITH SOULS." “Playing With Souls,” the Firs' National picture showing at the Palace Theatre, tells the story of a boy deprived of the love of his parents, and neglected by them from his childhood, who almost wrecks his own life and that of his fiancee, in his bitter efforts to forget the past. Mat Dale, who has come to thip.k he is nameless after sixteen years of neglect by his parents and who considers himself unworthy of the sweet girl (Mary Astor) whose heart ho has won, becomes a waster. William Collier does the most brilliant and understanding work of his career in his interpretation of this role. His transition from the part of a lovable, lonely, heartsore boy to that of a reprobate is excellent. Clive Brook’s interpretation of his role of the boy’s father is none the less marvellous. He has made the change from the cold, intolerant man who will have nothing to do with his son to that of a Tather, realising that, after all, his boy is the dearest thing to him, with case and convincing grace. Furthermore, he has done it as no other actor would do it. This man has a style all his own. He Is nothing it not original. I The selfish, vain mother caring for noth ng but tho preservation of her youth, is admirably portrayed by Belle Bennett. A vivacious personality of tho night life of Paris is enacted by Jacqueline Logan, who has the role of Bricottc, a flirtatious cabaret dancer. Her personification of the recklessness of youth In th 0 Montmartre Is vivid. Mary Astor, as beautiful as over, added to her histrionic laurels in the role of the girl young Dale loves. I AHOLD LLOYD IN “GIRL SHY." There have been screen comedies good and indifferent, but "Girl Shy”, Harold Lloyd’s latest vehicle of fun (opening at the Paiace on Monday) is among the best to date. The bespectacled comedian has seldom done anything better than this portrayal of i tailor’s apprentice \u a small town, afraid of women and beloved of them. His bashfuiness' is but a lure-for all the women in the sleepy town, but, as is usual in all happy tales, there is the one woman, and for her the hero loses all his bashfuiness and the stern lover, meantime convulsing tho audience with his fun-making propensities, given full expression in o.n unsmiling manner that is doubly' effective. Oile Ims to see Harold Lloyd in “Girl Shy” to appreciate his real art, for it is an unusual £ole fob him. Playing opposite is dainty Util* Jobyna Ralston. PARAMOUNT. “The Dressmaker from Paris,” a new Paramount picture featuring Lea trice Joy and Ernest Torrence, whit 1 ’ is now showing at the Paramount Theatre, is a comedy drama of a little French girl who rises from modiste's messenger to tne position of Paris's most prominent fashion de signer. Allan Forrest is leading man. Others in the cast are Mildred Harris, Larry Gray, Charles Crocke* i. Rosemary Cooper and "Spec” O’Donnell. ODDFELLOWS “WIND-UP.” An affair to which dancers have been looking forward will take place on Monday December 7th., when tho “Wind-up” of the Oddfellows Dance should prove a groat attraction. During the season “The Oddfellows”, ai it has become affectionately known, has achieved a reputation for bright and happy evenings and the closing function will be a fitting end to a most successful season. No expense will be spared to make the “wind-up” an affair to be remembered and many novelties, gifts etc., are provided for, and it i" hoped that besides regular patrons, many of the dancing public will find their way to “The Oddfellows” next Monday and help the Committee to make a substantial final contribution to the Childrens Xmas Tree Fund for which the dance was originally organised.