PICTURES AND PLAYS

Maoriland Worker, Volume 10, Issue 447, 1 October 1919, Page 2

PICTURES AND PLAYS

Tho King', takes premier place, this week with "Infatuation" which is essentially French in its conception, and setting, it reflects great credit on its producers. Tbte luxurious soeneg from iittingr backgrounds for that most elegant of modern dancers, Gaby Deslya, who completely delights her audiences. It is certainly a picture worth seeing, and no music lover should miss' the Ernest Drake Concert Company vrhto are vn-hided in the programme. From Friday next; "A Midnight Eomance" will lnold the screen. It is a romantic mystery story featuring Anita Stewart. At tiie Empress Carlyle Blackwell has a rather unique role in "His Boyal Highness." He is .seen as a footballer whose chum is a prince with a dislike for his job. The prince gets into a scrano and the footballer to save the situation takes on the princely positionAfter some exciting experiences he marries a neighbouring princess and stays King for keeps. From Saturday next Margarita Fisher will appear in "The Primitive Woman.'' ■x •:;- -x- * l-.verbody's is well up in the lead with a rattling comedy "Good -Night Paul" in whifit' Constance- Talinadge proves herself a real comedie«_.ue. The story is akin to a French farce, although without moral shock. The most daring and delicate situations are masterfully handled by the charming Constance in the maimer of which she is such a past mistress. The plot is an angle of tbe "lend mc your wife* mot'f. and as suggested leads to most humourous situations. A rich ti'nicle turning up iiuexpeetively to hud his nephew unmarried, the nephew borrows hig partner's wife for t»e day, when Uncle takes a voilent fancy to the place and decides to stay a month. The strenuous efforts on the part of the t-htree conspirators to keep hint from learni'-ig the only gets thoitf. into worse-, and. delicate situaii6ns, and the l pl*"y V«-W(| upto a clever climax, is full of laughs, and moves with speed throughout. Norman Kerry and Harrison Ford play the luckless partners in a convincing manner, aud John Steepling gives a good -characterisation of the .French uncle from Quebec. From Friday next her sister .Norman Talmadge will appear in a Chinese drama "The Forbidden City," which contains some remarkable Eastern scenes. The Paramount has a good double bill this week, "Venus in the East" featuring Bryant Washburn. It is the story of a man who falls in lov e with a society woman through a picture he has seen in a newspaper. He hastens to New York in order to make her acquaintance, and falls among crooks, is is a u amusing story aud one gets a peep at the principal sights of New York whilst following "Buddy - ' in his adventures. The second picture is "The Secret Garden" and those who sawlittle Lila. I_e c in the comedies "The Cruise oi the Ahikebeiieves" and "Such a Little Pirate" get quite a surprise when viewing tier in "Th. Secret Garden," for it is an emotional drama of great force and Lila Lee gives a finished aral arti.tic performance of a somewhat cruel child who, through pity, aud a desire to keep a supposed cripple, develops into a loving and lovable woman.