AMUSEMENTS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 27 April 1923, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS

EMPIRE 'JHEATRE DOUBLE STAR BILL

’To-night will be; the linal opportunity of seeing “Madame X” and “ilio Seventh Day,” the big double bill at the Empire Theatre. To-morrow, at iuatinee and evening sessions, ‘‘The Trouper,” with Gladys Walton, will be screened. The old and the modern in the annals of the stage is uproariously burlesqued in every detail of every scene and in every title of “The Trouper.’' Everyone in country towns has seen barn-storming players acting badly in bad melodrama. The chance to see it again hi its most excruciating aspects is offered in this excruciatingly funny burlesque. On the stage within the picture such artists as Jack Perrin, Kathleen O’Connor, Thomas Holding, Roscoe Kerns, Mary Thilbin, and others are called upon by the nature of the story to do the worst acting of their respective careers. Rut in spite of the burlesque comedy in the story, the role by Miss Walton is almost as emotional in its content as “Second-Hand Rose,” which change this star from a straight comedy player to an emotionalist worthy of the utmost attention.

THEATRE ROYAL “THE CRUSADER.” A fighting star, an unusually powerI ful story, an all star cast, are three of the things that go to make “The Crusader,” to-morrow’s attraction at the Rcval, William Russell’s outstanding success. Dealing with the story of a young man who is ambitions to starton a career, it is well stpeked with all of those exciting incidents which go to make up attractive entertainment. The fight alone on the brink of the rppids alone is sufficient to commend it,—and then there is another angle. In this picture two leading ladies are seen n support of the star, two roles . of equal distinction, one played by H« len Ferguson and the other by Fritzi Brunette. A drama of meiwuul women who fight for life, of the trea- | sines hidden, beneath the earth, of a ( man who sought wealth only , to find tha’, he had won happiness. Amongst , the supports will be found a Sunshine j comedy, “Dandy Dan,” Cartoon, Fox News, and tho current - chapter of the h'st serial to date, “Perils of the Yukon.” The first screening will h,- made at the matinee.

PARAMOUNT TO-NIGHT “THE GRINGO DEVIL”

Tho final screening takes place tonight. of ivliat is claimed to he the greatest cowboy sensational of the day and America’s most brilliant horse man, William Steele, n “Tho Gringo Devil.” The supports include a, sidesplitting Arbuckle.comedy. To-morrow nt a monster matinee at 2.30 and again at 8 p.m. the management will present an all-new programme, ~ the outstanding feature of which is a most delightful story of the sawdust ring, featuring Mary Miles Minter, spangles and clowns ; brass buds and the fun and thrill of youth recalled by the inagi3 voice of the circus. Spring calls to love and youth responds to both. Against the romantic background of the big tent the suddent interest between Pat and the piquant little clown develop into a sparklin groniance. A big supporting programme and tho latest cheery music rendered bv the popular Cabaret Orchestra. “ORPHANS OF THE STORM” COUNTRY TOUR “Orphans of the Storm” will be presented by Permanent Pictures on the country tour: Richmond To-night, Wake field, Saturday. Everyone’s favourites Lillian and Dorothy Gish are seen as the little orphan girls suffering in the horrors of the maddest days in the history of a nation—the French Revolution. Lillian Gish is the central figure of a romance that is terrific in ate appeal, and, at times, heart-rend-ing. In the scene where she is thrown into the executioner’s cart by the fanatical Jacques Forget-Not, her impression of mute suffering will not easily be forgotten, so terrified, so humble, yet so forgiving. The second tremendous punch arrives when the girl and her lover, Chevalier De Vau-d-ey are sent to the guillotine. The famous Danton, fiery leader of an outraged people, intervenes with tho Tribunal and, with tho reprieve thus gained, joins his comrades on horseback and makes the dash to tho guillotine gates just outside tho city. The cast, a memorable one, includes Lillian and Dorothy Gish as the two orphans, Joseph Schildkraut, said to he the handsomest man on the screen, as the Chevalier Do Vaudrey, Monte Blue as Danton, Leo Kolnieri as Louis XVI., Sydnev Herbert as Robespierre, Sheldon Lewis as Jacques Frochard, Creighton Hale as Picard, and Morgan Wallace as the Marquis do Presle.