THE PICTURE HOUSES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15223, 22 May 1920, Page 5

THE PICTURE HOUSES.

THE PALACE. A couple Qf mirtli-nrovokin? comedies ■ will be the features at the Palace TlK'utre ' to-night. Jn "Easy to Make Money" IH-'it . Lytell takes the chief roie* m this excel- : lent cnte'riainmeiit be gives another of • his fine cliuracter sketches which hay«» made him so poimhtr on the screen. Tfie manner m which Jimmy Sloeum (J&ert Lytell) goes about making- money on wagers, and collecting the stakes, offer a store of opportunities for huihoroils scenes. tho settings of the release I ar<s the last word or lavishuess ana accuracy, and the play is roviewtel as 1 tho best vehicle that Lytell has Had In ! the whole of his successful career. The other picture is also of an unusual kind. "Good-bye, flill," is an amusing- satire on the pretensions, fraud, ami silly Hun super-man idea ana hangs its story upon the awful calamity of a moustache-fixer . invented by the favous Court barber, , Hcrr Tonic, falling to uphold the facial decorations of the chief Hun. . An American colleague is* summoned, to. avert tne . catastrophe and fixes things ; generally as , ! well as the moustache. T3io picture i.« one I of rollleking fun, with sufficient truth and human interest to give the two aiars i every opening for their able work. The supports are of the usual fine character, ' and help to make this screening one oi , unusual interest. The bookings are open at C W. Muir's as usual. I "Upstairs," a ragtime romance m one long spasm of merriment and a big hit \ for Mabel No'rmanU, tho Goklwyn comedy queon, is to be shown at Everybody's to-night. Mabel Normand is always a \ welcome artist, an 4 m "Upstairs" does important work. The" opening scene or ' this Goldwyn masterpiece shows her as a slavey m a cabaret who is responsible for many disturbances m the daily existence of the French chef. Uy sundry adventures with a partner close handy, Mabel manages to achieve a glad sixty , minutes m the ragtime hall upstairs, and from the moment of her captivating entry, laugh follows laugh. Her "shimmy" dance is ascream, and her adventures with a detective and a crook are separate thrills, until her partnei* finally claims her and turns out to be a millionaire m disguise. The other feaJure is a. plcturisation of the weii-Rnown play "The Third Degree* 1 ' with Alice Joyce m the lead. The charming glrlishness -of Alice. J'oycc:, her force and individuality have never .been given better expression than m the character of the" waitress-wife whose love arid faith m her husband v saved him from the electric chair. As the usual full house is expected, booking- at Miller's is advised.