AMUSEMENTS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 10053, 12 February 1927, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

TEMUKA 'PICTURES. . . If you like your picture sizzling wil|h excitement and spiced with melodrama, you’ll want to see “The ‘Limited Mail,” a Warner Bros, classic, screening at Temuka to-night. Thrill succeeds thrill as the exciting story unfolds itself on the screen. Train wrecks and landslides figure prominently in .this picturisation of Elmer Vance’s great melodrama of the - West, but the tenseness is relieved by the limns•lug antics of Willard Louis, who plays a,carefree tramp. Monte Blue, in the leading role gives one of 1 his best performances as a spoiled son of Hie Bast who, found himself in the rugged mountains of Colorado. •Vera Reynolds makes an attractive little waitress, and the remainder of' the cast are excellent. .Very.en-, ter.taining supporting pictures will also be-screened. GERALDINE PICTURES. Harry Langdon, .Firm National's new comedy star, easily warrants the sobriquet of ‘‘Laugh-a-Minute” Lajiigdon, given Mm by the audiences of the American theatres. In “The Strong Man,” to be released to-night at the Municipal Theatre, Geraldine,' great scope ns given his abilities as a stunt , comedy artist, and his laughter-making antics in no, way hide the cleverness with which .Tie performs the feats of breath-taking thrills. This whole show' is funny, but the funniest scenes are: When Harry is- dreaming of his girl on the battlefield and fighting as nonchalantly as if he as ere walking in his sleep. When he and Zandow aiTivo at Ellis Island and go through one of the most screaming sequences, ever screened. Wliiui Harry wanders through the streets of New York, slopping' every girl to see it she is Mary, the girl who wrote him “Buddy lettcis. When Harry enters an “Amateur Night” performance and get. stagestruck. AVhen he -substitutes for '“The Strong Man” and starts a riot in' a music hall filled with bootleggers and bandits by trying to make them pray! The picture was screened on Thursday alter 110.011, and was voted by all who saw It, as funnier than “Charley’s Aunt.