ENTERTAINMENTS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 6 August 1928, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS

EMPIRE x “Dancing Mad,” starring Maria Corda, heads the double star programme tonight. This picture is a dramatic story of Parisian life and is recommended as more suitable for adults. Tim McCoy plays the Ha'd iri “Foreign Devils,” the second feature, which is a true story of the Boxer Rebellion. : Prices aro as usual and the plans at the Theatre. Charlie,Chaplin, author,, star, director and producer of “The Circus,” the new i comedy which comes to the Empire Theatre to-ihorrow for three days with a matinee each day, has once again filmed an original story. Charlie thinks that not any book can be filmed, that a moving picture made from a book necessarily must.be a reincarnation. lam wild' about Thomas Burke’s writings, says Charlie, who has known the English - writer intimately .-for many years,_ .I ' - loved ‘Limehousp Nights'and-‘The Wind andi the Rain.’ yet I would not think of trying to express the emotion of. either book in films. He writes his pictures in with words, gives the emotion and the feeling with words, and I do it in my own way. lam too much of an egotist to put a book into films, anyway.. I would "not feel it was my own creation. I like to make up my own things. _ You know, I wrote and directed ‘The Circus' myself.” The plans are open at the Theatre and at Cull’s. *

REGENT THEATRE The Alton sisters 'who are appearing ••/at the - Regent Theatre present a short but bright programme of dancing and tight rope walking calculated to appeal to everyone. The theatre was crowded out oh Saturday and the two sisters were enthusiastically encored. They opened with a song and followed with a step dance iu which they danced : together all sorts of intricate steps. Their work on the tight rope was very, clever. The star picture, “Diplomacy” .is a mystifying story of international intritgue. When a conference of diplomats from the world powers is taking place at Deauville, the famous pleasure resort of the . idle rich, the unexpected is always Happening. Rooms - are ransacked, servants are found bound and ga'gged and so on. The end of the picture is an unsuspected surprise. The supporting pictures include the English historical story of the Earl of Essex and his unfortunate wife, Amy Robsart.