AMUSEMENTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16377, 27 June 1927, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

KV Ft! YBODY'iS. Novelty ol plot and variety of emotional appeal that mnge* from light eumed v to pathos mark "Ladies at I‘lav." a sparkling comedy-drama from Kiist National, which is the teaturo oll'enng at E very body \s to-night. Doris Keinmi and Lloyd liughes are featured with a east of exceptionally strong supporting players. Ihe .story, an adaptation of a stage play, is a i|uerr kind nf comedy. It sets out that a charming voting gill must marry within three days if she is lo inherit six million dollars. This young lady is determined riot to miss this money, so gets 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. This gains for the pair their consent to marriage. "Epic of Everest." an English Gazette, and the two-reel comedy, "The Jellyfish." are the supports.

Willard Louis, Irene Rich, and June Marlowe are ihe lop-matchers in the rust enacting "The Man Without a Conscience," the attraction at Everybody's 10-monow night. Not content with having such an exceptional trio, Warner rims., the producers. 1 have, added to their glory lay engaging John Patrick, Helen Dunbar, Robert- Agnew, and William (diamond for other roles. Tim story of "The Man Without a Conscience" is the .story of a man ruthlessly determined to win success and wealth, and prepared to throw over his fiancee, ruin his friends and commit himself to a career of nnsorupulousncss to achieve his end. Rut Richard Mason’s monument- of success is built on the shifting sands of treachery, and the structure topples without warning. The woman he married for money turns from him, and the woman he spumed', because she had no social position, comes to the rescue at the last dramatic moment. This picture cannot he shown for more than one night-, as Joint Barrymore in the special production, “The Sea. Beast," commences on Wednesday at the matinee. TITE PALACE “The Popular Sin,” featuring Florence Vidor, Clive Brook, and Greta Xissen, and finally screening at the Palace to-night, is a delightful sophisticated comedy of Parisian life. It is a picture of the reputedly serious problem of divorce and involving two women and three men, and the laughs that follow when they start changing husbands. Comic complications are bound to arise from such a situation and they do. Commencing at to-morrow’s matinee the William Fox special production, “■The Family Upstairs,” will be presented. “The Family Upstairs” brings J. Farrell MacDonald to the silver sheet in an entirely new role. Heretofore, MacDonald, who won lasting fame as a result of his groat characterisation of Corporal Casey in “The Iron Horse,” has been seen as a hardboiled individual who “takes nothing off nobody. In this comedy, in which Virginia Valli and Allan Simpson are featured, MacDonald is east as an easy-going father who “takes a lot” —and takes it- “oft”’ Friend Wife. The wife, in this ease, is Lillian Elliott. Cast as “Ms” Heller, Miss Elliott makes “Pa” Heller’s life miserable until a series of dramatic, episodes work a startling change. The fun ripples around a bashful lover and an unpretentious girl who lives in an ordinary home. It is one of those New York affairs, where you walk upstairs to save 10 dollars. Miss Valli, as the shy little sweetheart, is merely a bookkeeper in a vegetable market—but she has the greatest possible charm for Charles Grant, an ambitious bank teller. Miss Elliott, always getting in the way, is constantly warring with MacDonald over the future of the daughter. Unable to stand this clumsy, but well-meant interference, the daughter flees to Coney Island, pursued by the sweetheart. Here a number of intensely funny situations grip the entire group and the bank teller almost- comes to grief. In the end MacDonald wins a merited victory over Friend Wife, daughter wins the bashful man and all ends joyously as “Pa” Heller leads “Ma” from the scene.