AMUSEMENTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16372, 21 June 1927, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

THE PALACE. That Eve was ever Eve and as careful in tho Garden of Eden she is to-day iii the choice of a gown, is the story of woman's love of the beautiful shown in "Fig Loaves" at. the Palace to-night-. The" dainty Olive Horden, playing Ihe part of the iirst woman, as well as the (tapper wife of to-day, makes the most of her opportunities in these two strongly contiastiug roles. George O'Brien, first, as the original Adam clothed in the skins of beasts and then as the modest husband of the modern Eve. proves that the problems of husbands have not changed greatly through the ages. This is an unusual story. It is interest absorbing and vital with life. The scenes in the Garden of Eden make one wonder what mankind lias gained by civilisation. The story moves quickly and logically from scenes of natural beauty to the sophisticated splendors of an ultra-fashionable gown shop. Here the modest little Eve, wife of a small business man, is tempted by a modern serpent, in the person of Alice Atkins, a part enacted by Phyllis Haver. Even mere man will be interested in the display of feminine charms displayed by the models in scenes in the fashion review. 'l'hese scenes are in technicolor which reproduces with astonishing faithfulness the daintiest shades of color and texture. The theme ot the story, woman's craving for beautiful clothes and man's utter lack of understanding of this imperative need of her's. is brought home with compelling force. Besides Olive Borden and Geo. O'Brien in the leading roles, the cast includes Phyllis Haver, Andre de Beranger. F.ulalie Jensen, William Austin, Dorothy Dunbar. J, Clifford Rico, and Chas. C'onklin. EVERYBODY'S. Hex. who .acquitted himself so nohly in "The King of Wild Horses" last year, is again to he seen on the screen at Everybody's to-night in "Black Cyclone," a story of the wild lands, where herds of wild horses roam the hills and plains. Hex is lirst seen as a motherless colt, who is driven out of the herd by the. Killer, a hideously-spotted and liendishly-temperod stallion who has never been vanquished in battle. A natural enemy of Rex—king of all wild horses—is man. but Hex was to know the worth of a man's friendship. Hell's Hole quicksands were about to claim him as another victim when he was saved by a. cowboy, who had been forced to hide in the hills to avoid the vengeance of' a bad man. Bex repays his debt to the> cowboy by killing a cougar that was about to spring on the man while he slept. The climax comes when the bad man, in pursuit of the heroine, shoots Jim's horse from under him. Seeing his man's predicament, Rex offers his broad, bare; back, which Jim had several times tried, disastrously, to mount. But now Rex was dociie and willing to bear this burden. Like the wind he swoops across the sage-brush plain. Then, when lie sees Jim winning in his hand-to-hand tight with tho bad man, Rex rushes to beat oft' the Killer. Guinn Williams, Kathleen Collins, and Christian Frank play the only human roles in "Black Cyclone." " I>e ggy' s Garters," two-reel comedy; "Westminster Hall," interest; Pathe Gazette, and "The Jealous Fisherman," Aesop fable, are supporting films.