THE PICTURE HOUSES

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14446, 5 November 1917, Page 7

THE PICTURE HOUSES

THE PALACE. The celebrated stiigeand.. screen star, Nance O'Neil,. will Be seen at the Palace to-night, taking the lead m the great Metro picture, "The Iron Woman." This is a picturisation of the novel of the same name written by Margaret Ireland. Miss O'Neill appears as Sarah • Maitland, a simple unpretentious woman, who manages skilfully the iron > mills leit her by her husband. By her . methods she wins the almost unwilling admiration of everyone. She tries to bring up her children, Blair and Nannie, with the same lack of sentimentality with which she conducts her business < affairs ■ and puts down insurrections among her workmen. Nannie is a sweet, lovable girl, but Blair, her idol, is a head-strong youth! 'inattentive to his lessons. The rigid simplicity of his mother's house galls him, and when he is sent to college m wild extravagance and luxurious suijrouhdings. :Sceries : of great interest , follow,, with a very happy ending." Episode eight of the .- sensational • serial,- "Secret of the Submarine," is also being 7 EVERTBODT'S. It might very fittingly be said ot the present programme at- Everybody's that it is a very meritorious one. Bride of place must be conceded to. a remarkably good Triangle drama, "The Wharf Rat." Mac Marsh and Robert Harron are the featured artists; the former, m the part of the heroine, is especially fine. £ove of woman is 'almost always the basis pf picture stories, 'arid indeed of 'written as well as pictured stories, but this narrative, springs from a- different source "altogether. This is the nagging stepmother, a common-place type of 'woman, who believes herself especially appointed to conduct the affairs of her household according to certain flat, hard, and stern rules. Mac Marsh ih one part performs a remarkably high dive from the deck, of an ocean . liner. Billie. -'•■Burke is pleasing her large following m .the present instalment of "Gloria's Romance," "The Mesh of Mystery/ ■.■;..' Two... .very good, topicals complete the programme. "WHERE ARE MY CHILDREN? Mr.. E. J. Carroll's great propagandist picture. "Where, are my Children?" Avhifch ! - ppens ' ? a \ , the ppera. Hp,use:j on Wednesday * next- arid shows uiitil 7 Saturday night, . with special matinees on Thursday and] Saturday afternoons at 2 p.m., has won most, conspicuous success m the history of the .screen, at, fthy rate as far as. New Zealand is concerned, it is not a picture for children,, andrthe, censorj has rightly ordered that, none between the ages of six ' and eighteen" years shahl be allowed to see It. Mr. W. A. Low accompanies* the film -to see the order carried., ouf^.- Showing;, always at high prices "on account of 'the great .cost of the film, "Where arc my Children?" has shattered, all, .picture records m- this Dominion. At Auckland it screened for throe weeks at two". theatres, y at Wellington for two weeks at 3 theatres, at Christchurch two weeks at, two theatres, and at Dunedin for; -two y- weeks -.at two theatres, m addition to which it7has established records m: 61 other towns. Concerning the season /it Syflh'ey, th'e "Sydney Morning Herald said: " "Where are my Children?' continues. to pack the houses .- at every,. ,session, ; , and In- 'the history of i the theatre 7there ■ has. probably never ! been a greater demand for seats.*' Local j patrons will save' Inconvenience by re- j serving seats at Miller's corner. I