AMUSEMENTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16622, 13 April 1928, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

THE PALACE “Zono, ” who has been receiving most enthusiastic applause from packed houses for his performance on the xylophone, will close his Gisborne season to-night. “Chalk Marks, ’’ in which drama comedy and romance are intermingled in equal proportions, will lie shown only to-night. In the cast are Marguerite Snow, June Elvidge, Ramsay Wallace, Helen Ferguson, Priscilla Bonner, Lydia Knott and Rex Lease.

Two ot‘ the greatest pictures to be presented on one bill will be screened at the matinee and night performances to-morrow. They will be “After Midnight” and “The Woman On Trial.” Like a chapter from real life rather than a combination of fiction and fact, “After Midnight,” a story] of modern life, is sure to attract unusual interest. Norma Shearer has one of the best roles of her career as Mary, the “Cigarette Girl.” The Cigarette Girl” is one of two sisters, both of whom earn their living during the hours in which most people are asleep. Maizie, the other sister, is a dancer in the Four Hundred cabaret, where Mary sells her cigarettes. Mary is steady and saving; Maizie is flighty and careless. Walking home one night, Mary is held up by a young thug, and afterwards a friendship then springs up between ■them. The boy reforms, and they become engaged, but a tragic misunder'stnnc|ing shatters their romance, however, and Mary! throws caution to the winds and joins Maizie in her quest for pleasure. Later Mary is reconciled to her lover, and they determine to start afresh. A woman's picture is /“The Woman on Trial.” Pol a Negri is featured. The theme is taken from “Confession,” a stage play. It concerns the sacrifices a woman makes in the name of love. 1 Caring deeply, for one man who is deathly ill, she weds another to obtain money to restore the first to health. When her •child by the loveless marriage is taken from her through a jealous and deceitful scheme, she runs true to Ihe instincts of woman and motherhood to regain the happiness of which she has been cheated. MAJESTIC THEATRE. Jean Hersholt, Universal character star, plays one of the the few sympathetic roles of his extensive screen career in “ Alias the Deacon,” the Uni-versal-Jewel production showing at the Majestic for the Inst time to-night, llersholt's remarkable. talents ns an actor have enabled him to portray every conceivable type of role from light e-o----edy to the most villainous character possible. In this picture he portrays the role of a lovable, middle-aged itinerant, who represents himself as a benign deacon in order to cover his real profession of gambling. The picture, a film version of the stage success, was directed by Edward Sloman. In addition ther ewill be the best of supports. To-morrow, both at the matinee and night screenings, will be presented two remarkable successes, viz., George Sidney and Alice Joyce in the comedydrama, "The Prinqe of Polsen,” and Marguerite de la Motto and Allan Forrest in " Fifth Avenue.” Perhaps the • best-remembered incident of the popular musical comedy, " The Prince of Pilseri.” played for a long while on Broadway, is the scene in which Hans Wagner, a Cincinnati brewer, falls in the basin of a fountain of the village inn. Theatre-goer? never fail to recall the funny "fountain -scene. ” In the motion picture version of “ The Prince of Pilsen ” this fountain sequence is shown with great comedy effect, and George Sidney splashes about in the water like a fish. ■ When he searches his pocket for a match to light his oigaf, lie pulls out-—a coldfish! Other prominent roles in this rousing farce comedy are played by ’ Anita Stewart, Allan Forrest, Myrtle Stedman. Otis Harlan, and Rose Tayley. “ Fifth Avenue ” has nlrendv proved a huge success in New Zealand, and should suit Gisborne picture fans nicely. Beautiful, delightful, dramatic and appealing is the itnusunl picture of one of the most fashionable highways in the world. The supnortinsr pictures, will include "How to Tell One ” ffwq-rccl comedy), and English Gazette. OPER A HOUSE.

Providing' much capital entertainment “The Beloved Rogue,'* John Barrymore’s first United Artists Picture,,’ will open at the Opera House on Monday night. “The Beloved Rogue ’ ’ is said to be a notable contribution to the screen, for numerous reasons. The first and principal reason is the fact that it presents John Barrymore in the most colorful role it has been his good fortune to fill. Francois Villon, scapegrace rhymester of Paris in the fifteenth century, at times scaling to the utmost heights and again sliding down to taste of life’s bitterest dregs, is the medium through which Barrymore attains this highlight in his screen career. Next of importance, “The Beloved Rogue’’ reveals Conrad. Yeidt in the role of Louis XI., arrogant and tyrannical monarch of Villon’s time. His Louis XI is an exceptionally clever performance. Next of interest is the appearance of Marcolinc Bay ns Charlotte do Vauxccllcs, ward of the king, whose strange romance with Francois Villon is productive of many of the most beautiful phases of the picture. Then, too, in its smooth, consistent direction by Alan Crosland and its fascinating settings, “The Beloved Rogue’’ affords additional ground for its designation as a notable screen feature. The cast of characters is filled with such names as Lawson Butt, Henry Victor, Slim Summerville, Mack Swain, Jane Winton, Rose Dione, Nigel do Brulior, Angelo Rossitto, Lucy Beaumont, Otto Maticsen, Bertram Grassby and Dick Sutherland.