AMUSEMENTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16374, 23 June 1927, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

THIv PALACE. Vuu cannot beat the campus and surrounding points of interest of an American college t'ur a background of a motion picture. It has romance, excitement ami action that is sunned by a youthful gaiety that is always colorful,. This is tiic setting provided by B. P. Schutherg iii liis newest Paramount release, " The Plastic Age," showing at the Palace to-night. It is ;i film versiou of the Percy M«rks novel which created suck a stir upon its publication a year or so ago. II is a story of youth iy all of its fast-mixing phases, but it holds just as much interest, for the mothers and dads as it does for the rollicking youngsters who are either in college or are on the way there. Also it holds much for those who have no tangible idea of what college is all about. It is not exactly a glorification of American college life, as it has a definite moral to depict, which necessitates the .showing of a bit of life that youth is apt to foljow when it breaks away from the family hearth for the first time. But it certainly is a glorification of the " spirit " of college life, than which there is none finer. The story is logical and gripping, and it has a dash that is most refreshing. Also it has Clara Bow, that enticing little actress, whose exploits are worth while in any picture in which she appears. Donald Keith, the youth who lias lately jumped into the limelight of motion picture audience fancy, has a fine part in the role of Hugh Carver, the hero of the Marks novel. Mary Alden and Henry B. Walthall give theilr usual fine performances in the roles of Keith's mother and father. Gilbert Roland plays the role of- Carl Peters. He has ability and a. personality that should carry him to the front ranks in vapid order. All of the cast is excellent. EVEKVBUH)¥'S. Another Moot Uibson- picture, "The Buckavoo Kid," is to be shown at Everybody's to-night. In it Gibson buckaroos to his best advantage, he starts fights, breaks banks, intimidates capitalists, acquires and. loses jobs witj equal urbanity, rides across a state to fulfil the somewhat flamboyant threat that he will carve the ears of a business associate and performs generally in a tempo calculated to discourage care. All of this is done in an invigorating and refreshing spirit of high comedy and action, leaving the audience with something of the feeling of a man who has just inadvertently driven around the race-track with a man breaking a world's automobile record. The whole picture is a mingling comedy / and melodrama, with comedy uppermost, and Gibson again proves his worth as a light comedian. Ethel Shannon makes a lovely leading woman,' while the performances of Burr Mcintosh, Harry Todd, and others, adds a great deal to the production. "The Buekaroo Kid" is based on a story by .Peter 8.. Kyne, who wrote the tale particularly around Gibson's engaging personality. "Samson of the Circus," episode 10; 'Marie's Kngagement Party," t«Po-reel comedy; and latest News Gazette are the supports.