THE PICTURE HOUSES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16112, 28 April 1923, Page 3

THE PICTURE HOUSES.

EVERYBODY’S.

Perhaps the most amazing production of its type since “Go and Get It” is “Hurricane’s Gal,” with Dorothy Phillips at Everybody’s to-night. Hurricane’s Gal” is a sea story, a combination ot thrills, suspense, love, hatred, and humor, wiui swiftly moving sequences. Miss Phillips is cast as Lola, who through a chain of circumstances, becomes captain of a smuggling vessel. Complications arise when a stowaway is discovered. Ho is young and handsome, and for the first time m her romantic liic-Lola falls in love. Later, however, she discovers the stowaway is a spy and he betrays the smugglers. Many stirring adventures follow; the path of true love becomes smooth again. The romance of a New York street cleaner gives the popular Tom Moore the most charming role of liis screen career in •‘Field Y'our Horses.” 'this is the humorous yam of an oppressed, henpecked, backboneless man who is given charge of a street with a red danger flag, and suddenly discovers that lie is a born boss. Then the fun starts. Naomi Childers plays the leading role. These features, together with picked supports, constitute an unusually excellent programme. PALACE THEATRE.

The new programme at tho Palace Theatre, shown lor the first time this afternoon, is an exceptionally great selection of powerful pictures. “Tho Storm” is a play of most unusual and intense dramatic situations, and ranks amongst the greatest pictures of the screen. The action is swift and logical and is further simplified by being centred in three, people. There are no leaps and jumps. The story is told in a region where the three principal characters have been snowed up for a period of four months. These characters are played by Virginia Valli, House Peters, and Matt Moore. By her performance of the innocent little Canadian Girl Virginia Valli takes rank with the first of screen actresses, and Matt Aloore with House Peters give greater performances than the picturegoer ever thought possible. For splendor of of scenic effects “The Storm” must bo given a high place among the big attractions of tlie screen. There is an exciting view of a canoe propelled by a girl and an old' man shooting the wild rapids ; there is ’:i blizzard that is realistic to an extraordinary degree; a forest tire; and the ride of Nanette down the rapids is one of tho most breath-taking scenes ever filmed. “The Bonded Woman” is a picture of love and thrills, a story of Shipwreck, the South’ Seas, Honolulu nights, desert islands, and adventures in big cities. Betty. Gompson is just a living breathing personality who grips the heart and the imagination of every spectator. John Bowers, as the man, is also a powerful factor in the success.