ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 June 1927, Page 11

ENTERTAINMENTS.

EVERYBODY’S THEATRE. "SILENCE”—A NOTABLE PICTURE. A luxuriously appointed drawing-room, three men engaged in heated argument, a beautiful girl of seventeen, a stream of vehement language in abuse of the girl’s dead mother, a revolver ehot and one of the men drops dead. Who fired the shot? Not Jim Warren, and yet Warren is convicted of the crime on the evidence that he has doctored in order to shift the blame upon himself. Though sentenced he refuses to divulge the true story of the murder. Whom is Jim shielding—and why? This is an outline of “Silence,” the P.D.C. production released by First National. H. B. Warner, who plays the featured role, that of the condemned man, also played the lead in the sensational stage production of this picture. Opposite Warner is Vera Reynolds, while the role of his crooked pal, Harry Silvers, is played by Raymond Hatton. “'Silence” is fully and excellently supported by topical, scenic and comedy. THE .PEOPLE’S. “ROSE OF THE WORLD.” This beautiful Warner Bros.’ classic which will be screened for the last time at the People’s to-night, is the picturisation of Kathleen Norris’s dramatic novel. It has lost none of its original absorbing interest in film form, and, with lovely Patsy Ruth Miller in the leading role, tells the fascinating story of a girl who lived solely for revenge to find that love was stronger. It is excellent screen entertainment, directed by Harry Beaumont who has achieved a delicate and romantic masterpiece. The supporting films include a Pathe Gazette, an Aesop Cartoon and a nature study.