STAGE AND SCREEN

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 9 October 1926, Page 9

STAGE AND SCREEN

"The Son of the Sheik," which will shortly TTo released here, was running jnsl four work:, in Los Angeles before Valentino was taken ill. Valentino's previous production was "The. Eagle," ivliieh ha;, a I rear] v been release'] in New Zealand. In 1024, tin- star made a picture entitled "Cobra," but I hit;, for .some reason, has not been generally screened. Josie Melville, who niado such a hit in "Sally," is now appearing in 'T\id Bonis" in London. Thurza. Rogers, formerly of Wellinglon, has severed her connection with Pavlova, In join the Williamson forces, and is now appearing as a solo dancer in "Tell Mr More," in Melbourne. Isu I, it about tunc someone prepared a little boiling oil or a. good stout, club to ileal with our overseas calamity howlers? iwks a. writer in an Australian journal. Every other Australian who gets publicity in th c United States seems to take, a morbid delight. in boasting about droughts and other horrors until normal Americans have got to thinking of Australia as thc land where Hie droughts come from, and they ;ne puzzled to understand why lllero air ;jny sheep left if I hey dm so consistently in tho parched deserts of the southern Golgotha. The blue ribbon pru c for calamity howling is held at. present by thts dramatists who not so long ago indicted two so called Australian plays on Broadway. '1 lie only bright Icaiure, about them b"th was that they were so bad as plays that they fizzled out alter a few performances, "and Iho unhappy critics were abjjul the nnlv ones lo learn from 'hem that Australia, was a really gowl place. In slay away from Otic of the. plays featured a livo kangaroo, .md :|| l the entles ,-,;;| (M iJ that tl)!B was the most entertaining it.cjn of the evening.