ENTERTAINMENTS

Southland Times, Issue 18936, 24 September 1920, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS

POPULAR PICTURE PALACE

Patrons arc advised of (lie final screenings to-night of the dashing Louis Vance stoo’, “The Bandbox.” The picture goes with quick action from the start, holding the spectator in breathless suspense right to the last. There are some excellent supports. Another fine programme has been secured for to-morrow’s matinee and three succeeding nigh ts. The star drama is a S.dznirk feature, “Greater than Fame,” which has been attracting large audiences throughout the Dominion. A beautiful scenic picture of (he West Coast Gorges, a Hank Mann comedy, “A Gas Attack,” and the New CoOp. Weekly, complete a programme of general all-round excellence that will please the children and interest the parent. CIVIC PICTURES, Another large house witnessed the second screening of the meritorious double-feature Paramount programme in the Municipal Theatre last evening, and enjoyed it thoroughly. It will bo screened for the last time to-night. Enid Bennett, Australasia's favourite actress, is the star in the big Paramount six-part super-feature, entitled “The Woman in the Suitcase.” The story is a most absorbing one, and the developments which finally bring about a dramatic situation for the plot of a most interesting picture. The second feature—also a Paramount —introduces Bryant Washburn in the leading role, in “Too Much Johnson” • —one of William Gillette's farces. Bryant Washburn’s light comedy talents are well known to picturegoers. The comedy is a most, amusing one from the Mack Bennett studio, entitled “When Love is Blind.” The Paramount magazine is a very' fine number also. CIRCUS PICTURE ON SATURDAY. The new William Fox motion picture, ‘Tier Elephant Man,” which will bring to the screen with full starring honours that most delightful little personality, Miss Shirley Mason, is to be shown in the. Municipal Theatre on Saturday at both matinee and night sessions, and as it is a story’ dealing with the circus it is sure to prove an attraction. “Her Elephant Man” is by Pearl Doles Beil, who spent many weeks with the big show getting her facts and her “atmosphere.” It has been given a superb production by William Fox and will present the circus with greatest realism. One of the scenes shows a three-ring cirrus in full action, and later the great tent is shown as a wreck in the path of a storm. Miss Mason plays the part of the star rider of the show- of which her guardian since childhood is the old clown. She falls in love with the elephant trainer, and it is soon a ease of “love me, love my elephant.” A sunshine comedy entitled “Her Private Husband” will also be shown, and it is crammed full of laughs from start to finish. “THE ROMANY LASS.” Intending patrons are reminded of the final screenings to-night at the Albion Theatre of tho realty good current programme. Montague Love has a part especially suited for him as the hero in “A Broadway Saint,” and his several escapades ere well worth going u long way to see. The comedy “Dames and Dentist’’ is really a gem and quite the best seen of this series for many a day. For Saturday tho management have secured the all-British masterpiece entitled “The Romany’ Lass,” with torch well-known players in the leading cast as James Knight, Marjorie Villiers and Charles Rock, the hitter will be better remembered as “Old Bill ’ in “The Better ’Ole.” The scenes in this play’ are laid in the hills of Scotland amid the heather in full bloom. The siory is of gypsy life in all its phases. The hero being a soldier who had been fighting in Africa. They’ dubbed him a coward —not knowing that the fearful tortures he had undergone on an African expedition had earner! a brain-snap—-and could not understand how he let a gipsy heat him, a soldier and the son of a soldier. But when he saw the woman he loved in danger of the gipsy, his true self asserted itself, ami love was his salvation. On the same programme is a Charlie Chaplin feature in which Charlie is “shanghied” and carried out to sea to be made a sailor. Can one imagine Charlie as a sailor? The picture is certainly one of Chaplin’s most enjoyable, Seats rapidly being booked for “The Romany Lass” season at the Albion. Mr S. Richards will sing the song ‘‘The Romany Lasa.”