ENTERTAINMENTS

Southland Times, Issue 18938, 11 May 1923, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

CIVIC PICTURES. To-night’s change of programme at the Municipal Theatre should do much to uphold the reputation achieved by the management of the popular house for strong and varied fare has been included on the bill. The principal features are "Pink Gods" (based on Synthia Stockley’s "Pink Gods and Blue Demons") featuring Bebe Daniels, James Kirkwood, Anna Q. Nilsson and Raymond Hatton, and “A Dangerous Game," with Gladys Walton in the principal role. Hie story of "Pink Gods” deals with Lorraine Temple and her husband, and Lady Margot Cork, a widow, who go to South Africa and meet John Quelch, "the man who made Kimberley." While Lady Margot feels the lure of diamonds, she is strong and well-balanced enough to resist. Lorraine, however, is fairly hiptomised by the beautiful gems she sees, and allows herself to be drawn, during her husband’s absence, into an intrigeu with Louis Barney, a dealer in smuggled stones. The varied and ingenious methods of smuggling uncut stones used not only by the native miners, but by white overseers and the illicit dealers, are graphically shown. Every acene ,

of the picture is vibrant with emotion and thrill. Penahyn Stanlaws, the artist-direc-tor who has been responsible for a lot of the Paramount successes, also directed "Pink Gods," and the combination of author, stars and director is a tribute to them all. Gladys Walton is now appearing in productions of a more mature type than those she has hitherto been seen in on the screen. Her latest, "A Dangerous Game,” is partly an exposure of fake spiritualism. As a girl, she firmly believed in the existence of fairies, but she could not swallow hole the claims of the alleged spiritualists, and when they "produced” the spirit of her dead dog incredulity got the better of her and she set about preparing for a "revelation” that picture audiences will delight in seeing. This merry little comedy-drama is well worthy of its place alongside the other big picture. Also on the programme is a Century comedy featuring Lee Moran and a Ford car. Seats for to-night or Saturday may be reserved now at the Bristol. ALBION THEATRE. LAST NIGHT OF "SILVER WINGS ” "Silver Wings,” featuring Mary Carr, the picture William Fox chose to open his Broadway season and which enjoyed a successful six months’ run on the "lane of white lights,” screens finally to-night at the Albion Theatre beginning at 8.20 p.m. Mary Carr, known as "the sweetest mother in all the world,” has, in this new production, the role of a mother who spares the rod and spoils the child—the child in this case being a selfish son who browbeats a loving sister and a brother. His arrogance leads the mother to sacrifice the fruits of years of labour in order to clear his name from a stigma. The prologue shows an ideal American family in a humble home, and the comedy element is especially evident here. It is described as good wholesome humour, and the play itself is said to be replete with laughs, thrills and heart-throbs. One of Mary Carr’s own children is in the prologue. This is May Beth Carr. Other prominent characters in the play are portrayed by Percy Milton as the unspgjled son, Joseph Striker as "the spoiled boy,” May Beth Carr as the daughter in the prologue and Jane Thomas as the daughter in the play. In New York City, where it had an extended run at the Apollo Theatre, "Silver Wings” was acclaimed by the critics as one of the most wholesome and instructive film plays that was ever seen on the Silver Screen. Clergymen of all denominations unanimously approved of it and the photoplay formed the subject of many sermons. A bevy of Comedies, Interests, Topical and Cartoon subjects comprise the balance of this fine programme. Seats may be reserved by telephoning the Albion (738).