AMUSEMENTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17157, 6 October 1926, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

EVERY BODY ’S The biggest wheat ranch in Eastern Ooon figures in ‘“Under Western - Okies, ” mi Edward (Sedgwick-Univer-sal-,Jewel production, having an all-, star cast that is to he the attraction at Everybody's Theatre to-morrow nightThe exclusive motion picture rights to the groat Pendleton (Oregon) rotmd-up of 1925 were purchased by Universal Pictures Corporation so that this greatest of all Western events might he. incoruraled exclusively in " Under Western Okies.’’ The Pendleton Round-Up is the peer of all American cowboy sporting events, for it brings into die arena the best broncobusters, lariat throwers and horsemen to be found on the cattle ranges of the West and South-West. Sedgwick, who wrote and directed “Under Western Skies,” has brought the round-up into the picture story in smooth amt easy fashion. Movie fans will be surprised to see Norman Kerry in a role entirely different from anvlliing in which lie lias yet appeared, for Kerry rides in a thrilling steejJeeha.se that is one of the features of the round-up. “Under Western Skies” also presents several picturesque scenes of the gathering in of the crops, with hundreds of farm hands and reapers at work. The supporting east includes Anne Cornwall, George Fawcett. Kathleen Key. Eddie Gribboii, Ward Crane and others. In addition No. 11 of “The Telephone Girl,” two bright comedies, and the International News. PALACE. If it were possible to pick out one episode of Buster Keaton’s new feature comedy, “The Navigator,” n Mei i o-Goldwyn production, and dub it .lie me,si humorous, that sequence would be the one in which Buster dons a diving suit, stick a revolver in his bell, jiacks a lunch box and, with a sheet full of gimlets ami bradawls over his shoulder, goes down to the sea floor to see why all the water is pouring into his ship. Through a huge rubber pipe surrounded by steel sections, tin; cameramen descended into the steel c-h amber and photograjdied the divers and Buster Kenton al work. “The Navigator” will be finally screened al the Palace tn-niglil. When snow pictures are mentioned (ho public naturally thinks of the great open spaces, of snow-shoes, sleigh dogs, etc. “The White Desert,” the new. Metro-tloklwyn picture in commence at to-morrow’s malinoe a! the Palace Theatre i« a snow picture, but not the usual one which is set in the north of Canada or Alaska. This picturisnlion of Courtney Rylcy Cooper’s famous novel is modern in its theme, graphically describing the way in which the radio and telephone now assist pioneers in the loneliest outposts to maintain communication with civilisation. It- also shows how iwny is man’s control of the elements, and how at one swift blow nature undoes his handiwork, and leaves him al the mercy of the wilderness. The east is headed by Claire Windsor, Pat O’Malloy and Robert Frazer, and supported liy :m all star cast. Reginald Barker directed. THE LONDON PIERROTS. For years past "Pierrots” has liecome a'household word throughout England, Australia aiid Now Zealand —each and every combination meeting with unstinted appreciation and wonderful receptions. It is now several years since Gisborne has been favored with a visit from a Pierrot company, and local amusement-lovers can look "forward to to-morrow evening with pleasurable anticipation; as that, night heralds in the Taylor-Carlton London Pierrots, a company of lady and gentlemen artists of outstanding ability, and a company which has drawn big business in Auckland, Wanganui. Napier and other centres visited. The London Pierrots are headed by .Timmy Taylor, original members of Polissicr’s famous Follies at the London Coliseum, and includes William Aspdon, brilliant operatic baritone, for three years with the Carl Rosa Opera Company. They present a pierrotic entertainment of popular music, snappy fun-making and bright, briet sketches, and one. suitable to all classes of a community. The plans is open at Tnt.tersn.ll and Bayly’s, and in view of the high reputation of the company, the management advise early booking. ■