AMUSEMENTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17068, 28 September 1929, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

THE PALACE. Another line double feature programme will lie screened to-night at the Palace in “The Wife’s Relations,” and “Tall Timber.” “If you want, tn laugh heartily see “The Wife’s Relations,” state the management of the theatre. The plot revolves around an odd quartet consisting of an inventor, actor, author, and artist, none of whom can make a living. The inventor convinces an elevator girl, who in reality is an heiress, that her life will hold far mure ups and downs if she married him, >S 11• ■ does, and tdieu the fun begins. Father and mother rail. They are impressed, until tin* owner of the estate, who is the former sweetheart of the heiress, appears at an inauspicious moment and upsets everything. The picture is eon stunted. Hr get. the most, comedy possible out of every situation. To flintend a east, of well known fun-makers lias been assembled, including Shirley Mason, in the stellar role, Gaston Glass. Ben Turpin, Arthur Rankin, Flora. Finch. Lionel Belmore, Armnrid Kaliz, Maurice Ryan and James Harrison. “Tall Timber” tells a clean out-door story, with a powerful east, headed by Billie Sim and Eden Laaderyou, two young stars whose youth invests their work with romantic artistry. In the sun-shadowed verdanee of the North Coast, timber country, with its heights of virgin forest side, by side with those naked hills where, the timber-cutter’s axe and saw make the countryside echo with the story of the eternal progress of man. the spirit of romance is as active as in Hie. brightness of the city's highway. It was in tho little timber mill that sprawled Over the feet of the mountain that Jack Maxwell, fresh from the gaieties of Sydney life, found himself face to face with the inevitable, truth of nature. It was here that he found sweet Betty Manning, tho favorite of the mill, and it was hero that lie fought the, greatest battle known to man, that of a man against himself—and won. And having achieved supremacy over his former wild self and brought to light a gang of timber thieves, led by the mill ganger, Jack Maxwell finds himself a proud figure in tho little country church, happily press-, ing the hand of Betty Manning, his bride.