EMPRESS THEATRE

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12458, 28 May 1926, Page 4

EMPRESS THEATRE

DOUBLE FEATURE PROGRAMME. There are three main features in the programme commencing to-day at the Empress Theatre. Pola Negri will be seen in “Flower of Night,” a Paramount picture; the second feature is “Go Straight,” a Master Picture, with a huge cast, which includes Owen Moore, Gladys Hulotte, George Fawcett, Mary Carr. Robert Edeson, and Francis McDonald. The third feature is a fine picture of the Australian Test team in action. “Flower of Night” was specially Written for Pola Negri by Joseph Hergeßheimer, whose romantic tales are familiar to all lovers of good novels. The story offers Pola one of the greatest roles of her career. Flaming, tempestuous, romantic, vital, this star has in “Flower of Night” a role at once so exciting and so lovable that the picture, a Spanish romance that embodies a wealth of thrilling action and marvellous colour, is sure to score one of her greatest successes. “Go Straight” tells the story of a girl crook’s struggle to get away from her life with a gang of crooks. After a final “job” she suddenly disappears next morning, and trusts that she has seen the last of her old associates. She starts a fresh life in a bank in Hollywood, and everything seems to be going along beautifully until one of the gang happens to see her. There are many thrilling moments from this to the end, and finally our heroine gets the happiness in life that she sought. There are some interesting pictures of life at Hollywood. The Australian cricket picture is a feature that should be of particular interest to all cricket enthusiasts ; all the players are shown making strokes and bowling in ordinary motion, and the same strokes and methods of howling are then shown in slow motion. One is able to follow every movement of feet and wrists. It is without doubt the finest picture of its kind ever produced, and shows those interested just how the favourite strokes of famous batsmen' are made, and also how so-and-so delivers that “wrong ’un.” The Empress Distinctive Orchestra, under Mr M. T. Oixon, will he heard in a delightful selection of incidental music at the final session.