AMUSEMENTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16376, 25 June 1927, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

i: very body's. The term, "The Period of the Regency," which is used in connection with "The Amateur Gentleman,," the inspiration picture starring Richard Barthelmess, is one not often heard in literature, and many people are curious as to its significance. It gets its name from that period between INK) and IS2O, when George lie 1 Third went insane, and his brother became Prince Regent. The costumes are of the Beau Brumniell pei iod, and in the .-lory as told ju the Barthelmess film, the hero, Barnabas Beverly Barty, was the first Ui introduce wide trousers among the social lights of London. Barthelmess' good looks mid line physique stand him in excellent stead in this colorful drama. He cuts a dashing figure as Barnabas Beverly Barty. The picture hurries along at a fast pace, and is full of exciting incidents. Two of the most exciting are a Jist fight which Barty wages against his father, the exheavyweight champion of England, and a thrilling steeplechase. ' The steeplechase shows Barthelmess as a jockey. This was one of the .most dangerous exploits in the film, and Dick suffered a fall from which he narrowly escaped grave injury. Barthelmess is surrounded by an exceptionally brilliant cast. Dorothy Dunbar is*scon in the leading feminine rule.

'• I.allies al Play" is a queer kind of comedy that does not conclude so well as il commences. It sots out that a charming young- girl must, marry within three days it' she is to inherit six million dollars. This young lady is determined not to miss this money, so H'(>ls herself compromised with the hero,, who is a hotel mail clerk. Two lounge lizards are hired to lure the two aunts on to alcoholic excesses, and having succeeded have them photographed. Thi.s K :iilis fol ' thc P a j r their consent to marriage. Doris Kenvon, Lloyd Hughes and Louise Fa/.enda are concerned. "Epifi of Everest," and 'nn English Gazette will he shown in addition. T.I IK PALACE One of the greatest foot hall pictures over made, " Brown of Harvard," and "The Popular .Sin," n Parisian comedy-drama, are the attractions on the double feature programme to-night at the Palace. There is a. quality about "Brown of Harvard" 'that makes it one not to lie easily forgotten. It might be any one of a number of appealing, fascinating leal tires, or the combined effect of all. Perhaps it. is the directorial suldety of Jack Conway, or the inspired acting of William Haines, Jack Piekford and Mary Brian. Whatever the cause, the effect remains unusual and memoraide. The University of Harvard i£ the locale of the picture. A bumptious, but intensely likeable, freshman arrives there and immediately lands himself into an eir.broyo love affair with a professor's (laughter, which leads to numerous quarrels, it is with the subsequent happenings, loading to Brown's eventual rise in popularity, and final graduation, that the story concerns itself. Thrilling contests on the foorball held and rowing course lake* a very definite place in thc picture. When a beautiful, dignified gentlewoman is married to a roistering rounder, marital difficulties are likely—divorce probable. When a beautiful, tempera mental, sironesquo actress is married to a serious-minded, pedantic author, difficulties are more than likely —divorce almost inevitable. But when into both marriages a posing egotistical stage director intrudes, linking both couples in impending scandal, the tragedy of mismated lives is turned into comedy. Such is the complicated situation arrived at in Florence Vidor's new starring piclure, "The Popular Sin." Olive Brook, Greta Xisscn and Philip Strange are the featured players in this comedy of marriage and divorce laid against a background of Parisian stage and society life.