AMUSEMENTS

Stratford Evening Post, Volume LVIII, Issue 68, 20 April 1926, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS

KING’S TREAT Rib I L "THE SUNSHINE TRAIL.” A hold-up, a kidnapping, and a hank robbery, and he got all the blame, just because the old home folk thought him a ghost. I|> sounds thrilling, and it’s crowded with romance and packed lull of laughter! Just imagine yourself in James Henry MacTavisli’s boots—back in the old home town Item your western ranch, expecting the Silver cornet band to greet you and vour old sweetheart to throw her arms around youy neck awl tell you things—and instead, getting blamed for everything bad that’s happened .since the James boys left. And on ( top of that, nobody believing you’re alive, anyway! That is ‘‘The Sunshine Trail.” screening to-night. GREAT LOVER FINDS BOOKS HIS INSPIRATION. Books are the inspiration that help make Ramon Novarro, the ‘‘Great Lover” of the screen, who plays the title role in the Rex Ingrain-Metro version of Rafael Sabatiui’s novel, “Scaramouch's,” which comes to the King’s Theatre for two days, beginning on Thursday. Visions of a gay Lothario ai>, rudely shattered in the case of the young film, star from Mexico. Girls are very nice, very interesting, he thinks, but it’s pretty hard to keep on being romantic all the time, even with their help. The trouble is that Ramon is forced to make a business—or rathei* art,—of being romantic. Day after day he acts before the camera’s eye in the blaze of the Klieg lights, and he is a, lover. You can’t be quiet while being romantic. That’s whv the Metro star everysonce in a while loses the romantic ispirit and becomes as commonplace as a bricklavcr or any other wealthy citiren. He can cure the ailment—and does; but girls are concerned only in the imaginative personage of the book’s heroine. It is all sv matter of keepiiuor his mind uv to an idealistic height. “T have had to keep my mind and spirit in a continuously ortmustic state,” hs says. ”• have had to color all my ideas with a gay and radiant idealism in' order that 1 could moke my audience feel that I was the symbol of these very tilings. CARDIFF TO-NIGHT. A free bus leaves at 7 .45 o’clock this evening for the dance at Cardiff.