AMUSEMENTS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12084, 22 June 1920, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS.

MARTON—WEDNESDAY. NORMA TALMADGE. "The New Moon" is a story of Russian life as it exists to-day—of men and women, artistocrats and peasants, freedom and bondage, love and laughter, hate and tears. A beautiful Russian Princess disguises herself as a peasant girl, while she seeks protection from the anarchists who are trying to rule the town. When the women of the country are ordered to register so as to be nationalised, she leads them to revolt. ' Miss Norma Talmadge as the Princess Pavlovna, is given an excellent opportunity to display that remarkable versatility for which she has become famous. As the Russian Princess she is proud, beautiful and gorgeously dressed. Decked in resplendent jewels, silks and velvets, she is truly a wondrously beautiful member of the Royal House of Russia. Later, as a peasant girl, in coarse, ill-fitting clothes and shawled head she lends atmosphere and realism to the role. The biggest ball room ever used in pictures, picturesque scenes at Saranac Lake, Russian officers in their handsome uniforms, loose-bloused, long-bearded Bolsheviki and peasant girls in the grey sashes and pretty shawls tramping about the hills *in twelve inches of snow, troikas and britobkas, Rusisan sleighs all lend the atmosphere of realism to the production.