AMUSEMENTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16866, 1 February 1929, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

TIJE PALACE Police whistles thrill, there is a thud of running feet and “Knife’-’ Reagan’s gang is at work again in Paramount’s new Wallace BerryRa vmend Hat ton melod I'amai ic comedy. “ Partners in Crime,’’ which will close ro-iiiglit m the Palace. While a i- 1 1 y trembles, Reagan and his nefarinus underworJd crooks vie with Ihe equally uolorimis Smith gang in plundering and pillaging. “Partners in Crime’’ is a new; lype of melodrama, tilled with comedy. Fay AVray am! Gary Gooper, who appeared logetlier in “Beau Sabrttej-, ’’ are featured in “Tin- .First Kiss.” Gin Paramount feature on (lie doublesiar 101 l cniutnoiu-iiig at tn-morrow’s matinee. Incandescem lamps were used entirely to illuminate jut priors for “The First Kiss,” As Ihe film was fallen in its entirety at St. Michaels, Maryland, on *< liesapeakc Pay, ir was necessary for an entire elect rica i unit to he Ira us pur l,ml from the Pa ram mm! studios in Hollywood. Ail the interior scenes were filmed in residences where the new method of light:!ng “self.” for motion picture: product ion was used. Ever} locale deal! with in I lie original story, ‘‘.Four Hi el hers, ” from which “The First Kiss” was adapted, was used in t!ii- picture, which tiecoutils tor the filming of the scenes so tar I roni Hollywood. The story is one of a boy who turned, into a river bandit for the honor of Ills family and for the sake of the girl he loves. “Sally in Our Alley” is the other feature. No doubt the majority of the audience will tell their relatives and friends about the little tenement waif whose antics and grimaces made them laugh and cry, and how three kindly old bachelors amused with their task of fathering this homeless orphan. But with these laughable situations is pathos. Shirley Mason plays Sally Williams, a homeless tenement waif, who helps her mother, a poor laundry worker. Her mother dies, and Sally is adopted by throe kindly old men. Sallv brightens the home for this unusual trio, and is happy in her surroundings. But a wealthy aunt returns from abroad, and invites Sally to make her home with her. She is not over-enthusiastic at the opportunity. hut her unselfish foster-fathers persuade her that, it' is for her own benefit. Sally is introduced into societv, and has many wealthy .suitors, but the thought of Jimmie, the plumber hid who loves her so devotedly prompts Sally .to disregard even social position. There comes a day when Sally must make a decision, and the story cuds just as one would want it do end. MAJESTIC THEATRE. “Life's Circus,” one of First, National's finest productions, and produced in Europe, held last night’s large audience at the Majestic enthralled, and it should draw a capacity house to-night. In France a circus* perfqrmer may take as many risks as he likes without courting tho displeasure of the civic officials. Though his turn may be hazardous, witli every possibility of him being killed, t.he police .cannot interfere with him unless the public are endangered through his act. A father may make bis children take all manner of risks in the arena, and though the audience or fellow artists protest the law allows the net to go on, the artists performing at their own risk. .11 they are killed the law then determines whether or not the particular act was dangerous. Such a dilemma faced the police in Paris when n circus artist, tried to prevent an act, “The Glide of Death,” being performed in the big circus story. In this production “Life’s Girons,’ a frail girl is forced by her father to perform an act that is dangerous. Strapped in ,a tiny car, she is released from the top of the auditorium tp glide down a steep slipway at the bottom of which is an upward curve. This throws the car in the. air, and turning over twice, it lands on its wheels on a staging. One fraction of an inch out in the curve would fail to give tho right momentum and death would be the outcome.

“Dress Parade,' featuring William Bovd and Bessie Love, and “For Alimony Only," starring Leatrice- Joy and Eillvan Tashman, will be, the _ features showing to-morrow at the matinee and night screenings. William Boyd, star,oi “Dress Parade,’’ his first stellar vehicle under the DeMilio banner, is recognised as one of the most popular male stars of of screen. “Dress Parade” is a story of West Point, and deals with the life of n military cadet. For four weeks at West Point, Boyd was an active picturestate Bessie Love is leading woman in this stirring love romance. Should children be encouraged to choose their own careers? This is a, question which confronts every mother and father, and many parents spend a lifetime seeking a truthful answer. It is answered in ope pit.hv short word—“Yes”— by Leatrice ,lov' in William de Mille’s photoplay production, “For Alimony Only.’ Both the above pictures come heralded by glowing press criticism, and should prove "deeply entertaining to Gisborne picture patrons.