ENTERTAINMENTS

Southland Times, Issue 19656, 5 October 1922, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

CIVIC PICTURES One of the most thrilling pictures ever made for the screen is to be shown at the Municipal Theatre to-night, when Priscilla Dean’s latest Universal Jewel production, “Conflict,” will be screened for the last time. ’ Two very large audiences have already seen this programme and it is safe to say that there will be another big crpwd to-night to see the final screening. The picture grips one with its suspense almost from the first flash. Its climax is built around the dynamiting of a big log-jam. and the succeeding flood of logs and water down the valley, sweeping everything in its path. The big punch comes when the heroine rides madly down the bank abreast of the.flood, leaps perilously from log to log, and rescues her unconscious sweetheart, played by Herbert Rawlinson, just as he is about to be swept over a cataract. The suspense is real, and Miss Dean deserves credit for one of the most fearless stunts ever performed for the screen. The story concerns Dorcas Remalie, a society girl, forced by her father’s death to go and live with her uncle, a mysterious recluse and lumber baron. A crafty and queer housekeeper rules his prison-like home. Menaced by the housekeeper, Dorcas runs away. She has fallen in love with Jevons, an educated young lumber man, who has challenged her uncle’s supremacy in the. timber country. When Jevons’s life is threatened she takes up his fight, and brings the timber baron to terms. The supporting feature, “The Outside Woman,” is a tale of rather amazing complications, humorous in the extreme. Wanda Hawley and Clyde Fillmore are very good fun-makers and here they are responsible for a most hilarious production. The whole programme is worth making a special effort to see. “THE SHEIK.” The plans for the opening nights of “The Sheik” season are rapidly filling at the Bristol—a sure indication of a most successful season for this remarkable picture Rodoiph Valentino has achieved a remarkable popularity for his work in “The Sheik,” which has been showing to crowded houses everywhere. The film is a dazzling one of life in the Near East. It contains many fine desert scenes, and representations of Arabic life, combined with a stirring story of tempestuous love. Moreover, the plot is one which holds the attention for every minute. To cap everything, the acting is all that could be desired. So what wonder that the film has proved one of the most popular seen in New Zealand for a long time. ALBION THEATRE. How a woman can spend practically her whole life striving with might and main to win for herself the love that has been foolishly given to another constitutes one of the finest romances and present-day dramas. The title of this production is “What No Man Knows,” which will be the chief attraction at the Albion for the last time to-night, and presents Clara Kimball Young in, what the critics say to be the best acting of her long and brilliant screen career. The question of who is the more unselfish, the man or the woman, is splendidly answered in this big new picture that boasts of one of the finest casts ever assembled. Little Jean Carpenter, child-wonder who won the hearts of millions in Mary Pickford’s “Through the Back Door,” is one of the cast that makes this a production of unusual significance. On the same programme is the North West Mounted police picture, “Channing of the North West,” also a good comedy and other subjects. “FLOWER OF THE NORTH” TOMORROW. One of the best of James Oliver Curwood’s novels is “Flower of the North,” which will be shown at the Albion Theatre to-morrow. The story deals with the North country in the summer time, and is filled with romance and thrilling sequences. In picturising “Flower of the North,” Vitagraph engaged an all-star cast headed by Pauline Starke and Henry B. Walthall. The production was made under the direction of David Smith, whose artistic success, “Black Beauty” and “The Courage of Marge O’Doone,” place him in the directors’ hall of fame. Every theatre in the north of New Zealand has shown “Flower of the North” to crowded houses, so popular has the picture been. Intending patrons are advised to reserve their seats at the Albion: telephone 738.