AMUSEMENTS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 19 July 1924, Page 12

AMUSEMENTS

fk 'EMPIRE THEATRE “WHERE IS THIS WEST" This picture presents a chapter of Western life in which there «'n* mere t shooting than there was at the Marne. And tlie whole net ion of the play is '■ fast and furiouo, with laughs and thrills alternating all through the play. The st>*ie is a comedy-drama, written r as a travesty on the "Old West as it v , was visualized by persons whose conecp- /< Cion of the West was based on c\agh IjiCmlcd fictinn. The theme of the play \s woven around the. adventures • John Harley, a milkman and Bailie "Summers, a waitress, who inherited jointly a Western cattle ranch. 'I hev left their homes in an Eastern i"\\n. accompanied by Bimbo Metlurlc. hmi\\ * Weight companion in the milk deuyihig business, for the ranch in the ~r West John Harley and Ids partner. Bimbo MeGurk, were contented as milkmen for a creamery in an Eastern town until Harley inherited a rattle ranch out West. They deserted the wvoralls prompth and took the hist ij e, j[ | West. 'Jointly inheriting the ranch was Sallic Summers, a waitress in a res Laura nt of the same town where the hues delivered milk. Shejomcd_ ...the ’oiiruev Westward. All "t their i lu'ions of the West were justified in Iho greeting that was accorded them by Ibo cowboys, but the Easterners gay f few thrills of their own. Jaea 'oori. Comedy and News, l.sual prices, lung : •at re Royal. to-night "Silcii? h Command." —Edmund Lowe. •>' He nh- ' ot Captain Richard Decatur, ot tin y - Naw. leaps from a sinking vessel i»l« that rages viciously on a roeKhou.ul v-nasi. He swims to a life-line and draws & himself hand over hand to safety aboard naw lifeboat. The crew risk then lives not only in lowering the boat from the davits of a man o' war, but again when they pull away into open sea, roll]ii^ f dangerously under a whipping; ' Again, in tlie wireless room of the sinkin" ship, Lowe engages in a hand-to-lia ml t; struggle will) Bela Lugosi, who appears \ a 8 the agent of a. foreign power, intendim r to mine the Panama Canal, the ngm is verv vealistie. Water pours m I rmn the battered door and the portholes, hal. «i engulfing them as they struggle. ~un-0 0 shine Comedy. Usual prices.