THE PICTURE HOUSES

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16175, 11 July 1923, Page 5

THE PICTURE HOUSES

EVERYBODY'S. At to-night's screening at Everybody's fheatre some very popular stats will be pie&enled, viz., Jjcugias FairoaiiKS, who appears in '.'JL'iie Mollycoddle,'.' the, .l<ee ruddies (ivatliefine-- arid- dajie), ; -'in "A I'm ii' of Acts/' and ' Lloyd''Hamilton _in ■'.The Adviser," tho programme bristling with de.lightiul comedy. Uooglas Fairbanks, in his latest picture "The Mollycoddle," is quite a new development m him stories. In this, he takes the part oi a man who came from a generation 1 I.l' fighters, who was transpiated to England at an early age, and there lived a "hothouse" sheltered life, and accordingly .developed into a very civilised, quiet, gentle young man. lie goes to America and gets "out West," meets a gir! who disapproves of his foppishness, and then the lighting ancestry takes hold, and he fights and rides with the best. The story is adapted from the novel of Harold McGrath. 'A Pair of Aces" is stated to afford the Lee Kiddies the bast of comedy, and as usual they -.core the greatest success. "The Adviser," another of Lloyd Hamilton's educational comedies, Screen Snapshots, • and ih e Pathe Gazette will complete) the programme. The ordinary prices wiii prevail.

PALACE THEATRE. The uevv programme shown at'the Palace! Theatre to-day, with Bebe Daniels in tho joyous comedy drama, "'One Wild ;Week," and Conway Tearle in the thrilling drama "The Aran of Stone," should attract capacity attendances. A complete double supporting programme of comedies, Garottes and Travelogues is also shown. "Une Wiid Week" gives iuis Daniels, with her whimsical personality and ellish beauty, one of her most successful roles. She is shown before she has reached her eighteenth birthday and afterwards. Her early life is embittered by the supervision of a spinster aunt, who suppresses all her desire for innocent fun. The girl is to inherit half a million pounds. Naturally, it wasn't much alter breakfast time o'n her eighteenth birthday, when her inheritance became due, that she set her suppressed desires, free, and she got adventure in plenty. As Pauline, tho girl who simply wanted a little; innocent happiness and .ended, in gelling everybody worked up to a frenzy of anxiety, lieho Daniels gives one of tho most delightful sketches of the screen. It is a play for everyone to enjoy. "The Man of Stone" is a powerful dramatic subject, a story of England, India, and Arabia. The picture is replete with action and local atmosphere, and makeU an impressive spectacle. Iti brings strongly to mind the atmosphere! of Kipling's tales, and weaves them into all the elements of a fascinating romance of a British army captain. He returns from India to claim his promised wife, only, to find that she has jilted him for a member of the British peerage. To hide his pain and to forgefi the woman he: loved, Captain Deering flies to Arabia and joins the outlaw Bedouins-. of the desert. Lady Fortescue, repenting her action"', starts to join him, and the final scenes are cyclonic in their intensity. A matinee will l>e held tomorrow.