SCREEN AND STAGE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 17 January 1925, Page 8

SCREEN AND STAGE

“Love Life., and Laughter,” is Betty ' Balfour’s latest Master Picture. “Maytime” and “Poisoned Paradise ■ ‘are two' forthcoming Master Pictures. ‘ - Norma TaTniadge will appear sooty in Jfcr most delightful drama yet, “i’he "Sbiig of Love.” ) " Three film experts Recently picked out "the twelve most heautiful girls in Hollyh'fwobd.to appear in “Maytime,” f forthcoming Master Picture, so all can judge for themselves. ' “Kisses,” a comedy drama, shows ffliu phase of the struggle of the younger generation to pay its debt to the past. • Alice Bake and Harry Myers have the ; leading roles. Hobart Boswarth and Anna Q. Nils--in have the principal voles in “The :C.Brute Master.” Thu story is by Mrs Jack London. Carl Gautvoort, Claire Adams, and Robert M’lvim are the featured players yin- “The Man 'of the Forest,” an adaptation of Zane Grey’s story of the same name., v ,‘r '“The Shriek of Avaby” is a- hilarious . comedy. • Ben Turpin appears- as the Shriek,-.and it takes five reels to tell the, adventures of the Mack Sennett comedian of the crossed and roving optics. .•.••ck'Tarnish,” a Forsfc- National production, is adopted from Gilbert Emory’s play. May M’Avov aiiul Ronald Colman are heroine and hero respectively, j . Writing to friends in Taranaki, Mr . Walter Fennell, the Haw era baritone, appears to be enjoying bis period of : study at the Royal Academy. London. Like most musical students, be ,finds', ' London a very fine place. 7. “Moving, moving all the year,” is the .complaint of Eddie Lyons in the atnus-iyiug-comedy, “Keep 'Moving.” Beth Darijlington, as the young wife, is always making ud lier blind to move again, Until her husband decides to save money I* by renting the furniture van by the - year. “On Time” is a fantastic melodrama, with 'cnpugh of every sort of. the factors • that go-to make up positive entertainment value. There! are thrills in/abunjjtdance, such as a jump from a telegraph pole, st)veil stories in the air, to the roof of all adjoining building, a chase over roof-tops, with break-neck jumps,, from ; one to th.e other. Tom Wilson as the coloured valet, Casanor Clay, provides the humour. Die Talmadge is the star and Billie' Dove is the leading lady, yy In “Luck,”' Johnny Hines’s ■feature

comedy drama, one of the outstanding .•V scenes is that of the interior of a coal uiine, wherein the hero makes a daring rescue of Violet Mersereau, who by mischance has been caught , N underneath '. whpn part.-of the mine caved in., Since it was impossible to wreck a- mine for .‘.movie purposes, the .next best thing was to build a ‘‘prop” mine at the ■‘studio. A highly trained technical staff . . spent, two weeks at .a real mine to obtain, the necessary technical information, Returned to the.studio, and after two , additional weeks of • paintnking endeavour, built a studio mine that will probably deceive a great- many people. f Another of the fnjnos ,“Potash and Perlnittbr” comedies is entitled- “In Hollywood with Potash and Perlinttor,” and it deals, in humorous-fashion with the adventures of the two partners in . the motion picture business at Hollywood.,.. Alexander Carr and George Svd■ney/play the title roles of the .famous ;^fifty-fifty.partners; , v.-L;. 1\ . v ’ Gene Jackson, the little black coon who added many a laugh to “Penrod, and Sam,” wid b'ejjcen again in “Roy of Mine.’’ Booth . ‘ 'Tarkington’s great .■story.... ’Hie plot revolves about a typii" f ■ D ! * 1 ' , ... ‘

cal boy (Ben Alexander), but most of the principals in: the: story are adults: The jazz age, with,,all its. extravagance, tun* o,ud folly, will -be depicted ia '“litis' the World "Gone Mar?” Luxurious ballrooms and gay cabarets on New York’s Great White Way form the vivid background, for fascinating studies; of men and women. Elinor Fair, Mary Alden, lied da. IloppeV, Robert Edeson, and Charles Richinail head the cast:

A novelty, that can safely be said to he the first, of its kind, is “Kidding Captain Kidcl.” It- is a cartoon .in natural colours telling the story of the modern Captain Kidd, and the way in which he sets out to rob people by up-to-date methods. The success of Paramount may be attributed to tiie care and attention that has been devoted by this organisation to' the requirements of the moving' picture public. Perhaps the greatest screen success in history was “The Ten Com 1 - monuments,” which is now breaking all records for New Zealand theatres. 'For the future, some of the greatest screen' successes will.Jie contained in such pictures as "Monsieur Beaucaire,” winch marks the return of Rudolph Valentino’s return to the screen; “Peter Pan,” from James M- Barrie’s famous plav, “Feet of Clay,” by Cecil B. Do Mi lie; “Bcaramouche,” by Rex Ingram (creator of “The Four Horsemen”); “Wanderer of the Wasteland,” from Zane Grey’s story.; “idly of the Dust,” with Pola Negri !, “The Alaskan,” starring TbosMeighan, from James Oliver CurWuodV famous novel of the same name./ The series' of Paramount Productions ip bereleased in 1925 are associated with# such names as James Barrie, Ztuie Grey. Cecil ,B. Do Mille .and many other authors of note, .jjhief among .stats will he, Gloria Swanson, Richard Dix. Betty Compson, Pola Negri, Agnes Ayres. Bebe "Daniels, Adolph M'enjou, Ernest Torrance, Rodolph Valentine, Jackie Coogan, and Mae Murray. A glance, at these names will be sufficient to entice movie fans into attending pictures whbi-ever the Paramount banner is displayed.