AMUSEMENTS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 6 April 1926, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS

EMPIRE THEATRE TO-NIGHT "CORNERED" "Cornered," the Winner Bios. Master] Picture is an intensely dramatic: story | based cm the subtle intricacies of fate. It gives us an insight to life at lis highest and-lowest—its licftt and worst, j The story deals with twins who have been separated in childhood ami have. grown up knowing of each j other's existence. One. heiress to mil j lions, has lived in a world o! luxury and refinement. The other has known ] no other home than the underworld, no; other companions than her Chinatown! friends. Soon fate begins to complicate the situation. The heiress visits Chinatown on a slumming party, and it is then that the discovery is made by her sister's pals ili.it there is a remarkahle resemblance between (she two. A plan is formed for one girl to take the place of her wealthy double, and it is very conveniently arranged when the heiress is called awav from the city. Ihe story thereafter is' Hie revelatur of a. very clover plot which terminles in the sisters' happv reunion. The double characterisation 'is portrayed by .Mane I revost. The- rest of the case includes a rare combination o ftalented players, including, John Roche, Kockchfle rellowes. I.avmond llatto.i and Cissy Fitzgerald. ( Comedy, .Serial and News. j '•UEWrS LAST STAND" We have had a surfeit of things j American in motion pictures. It comes , as a refreshing change .therefore, to see a British film, and one winch is purely ; New Zealand in setting, theme, and . manufacture is doubly welcome, Such : a picture is "Rewi's Last Stand, now j showing at the Marsden Hall "Rewi s _ Last Stand" is the class of production which teaches New Zealand history to, New Zealauders,, much as the \N Uct i West pictures prove an eye-opener to j many Americans. In a truer sense. ( however, can the picture, be claimed as ■ a splendid hisrorical record for. whereas j many of the Wild West films are based" on even wilder flights of imagination. "Rowi's Last Stand" has been founded on actual fact—fact which is not as ' creditable to our forbears as some _of them would have us understand. The film compares favourably with most : of the imparted articles, and the photo- | grapliy is of such an order that, had it i been produced in America, it would [ have been advertised as "an epic in mo- i vie advancement." The battle scenes , are. admirable, and done wonders how 1 they could be. so well reproduced with | the limited facilities at tho^ disposal of' the company. Moreover, tTfey provide those who see the film with food for admiration of the courage of those splendid Maori warriors whom historians describe as, in some respects, the bravest lighters in the world. The story deals with the Maori wars of early Waikato days, and running through it is a love theme which binds together those scattered episodes of New Zealand pioneer romance. "Rewi's Last Stand'' proves indispuatbly that we have no need to go beyond our own Dominion to find romance and adventure of the best, and also the people who can reproduce it for us in the most entertain- ' ing form. The season will continue until Wednesday night with matinees dailv.