AMUSEMENTS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 7 April 1926, Page 10

AMUSEMENTS

EMIT BE THEATRE TO-NIGHT

LEARNING TO LOAM

Const a net' Tnlinadge s new hirst National comedy. I .chi aiing to Low. was written by John Emerson ami Ins wife. Anita Lons. Ibis couple have been associated in the malting 1 h me.it', of Constance Talniadge's best, piholoplavs. They wrote "the Social .mi rotary" for Nmnia Talmadge. and six Douglas l'’airbanks comedies.. I heir latest stage play. "The Mimic towns Talking," had a' long run in New \ oi k last winter, and will soon lie produced iri London. In "Learning to Love Constance shows modern girls I lie van mis ways lu capture a husband. Ihe east includes Antonio .Moreno, ton stance's leading man; Johnny Harroii. Wallace MacDonald, Kryoii Munson. Hay Hallor, Kmily I'ity.rov. Edylhc Chapman. .All. (louhliiig, Edgar Norton and Percy Williams. Comedy. and News.

HEWI'S LAST STAND

The season for "Hewi's lasi Stand." the great New Zealand produced him. will conclude after this evening's session and a matinee to-morrow allernoon. Ihe great- crowd of Nelsonians who have seen this picture 'hald nothing but praise J'or the production and oppnruinily should he. taken of these lasi screening. We have had a surfeit _ of things j\ meticaii in motion pictures. It comes as a, refreshing change .therefore, to see a. British film, and one which' is purely New Zealand in setting, theme, and manufacture is doubly welcome. Such a, picture is "Hewi's Last Stand, now ■showing at the Maisden flail "I’ewi s .Last Stand is the class ol production which teaches New Zealand history to New Zealanders, much as the Wild West pictures prove an eye-opener to many Americans, in a truer sense, however, can the picture be clii’med as a splendid hi sari cal record for, whereas manv of the \\ ild M est films are based on even wilder flights of imagination, "H.ewi 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 men! of the imported articles, and the photo grapliy is of such an order that, had iL been produced in America, it would have been advertised as "an epic in movie advancement." The battle scenes are admirable, and clour* wonders how they could be so well reproduced with the limited facilities at the disposal of the company. .Moreover, they provide those who see Hie film with food for admiration of the courage of those splendid Maori warriors whom historians describe as, in some respects, the bravest fighters m 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. "Hewi's Last Stand" proves indispuatbly that wo 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 entertaining form. „