AMUSEMENTS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 17624, 7 October 1921, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

FULLERS' PICTURES.

•In spite of a strong counter attraction across the street, Fullers’ double team of big drama and big comedy drew a moderate house to the Lyceum last night. In the drama Katherine MacDonald has strong part to play, as a wife married to order, by her dead father’s wish, to a man whose hate for her family is concentrated upon her, the last of her tribe. But remarkable accidents support her * constancy, and she wins him in the end. In the comedy Harry Lloyd makes good the claim made for him that, as a very different kind of a practical joker, he is more amusing and lias more regard for common proprieties than Charlie Chaplin. The Pathe Gazette and Pathe Review are two good supports, and the orchestra is a third, its part running throughout the programme agreeably. For Saturday Fullers’ announce the beautiful English production “The Keeper of the Door,” adapted from Ethel M. Dell’s world-read novel. THE GRAND. ' The cosy Grand Theatre served many people last night ns a pleasant change from a dull day and a duller evening, its electric-light pictures ou the screen

being in groat ronvn.A to the outdoor j conditions. And the programme vas a cheerful one, much more pleasing to witness than the newspapers are to read. Tim cinema justifies itsell b.v Inking people completely away f>om their daily life, whether this he, in rare cases, two exciting for comfort, or, m most caises. humdrum and tiiesome. Tho current programme, takes the audience to India with the Duko of Connaught, find to Onim among rural peoples, to a region where artificial cleoerness ip a.i* fond "\vifcTi ai tirioiai crime. And then pretty Mary Milos Min ter takes one from commonplaces of ’fimaru life into the realms of gay romance, as no novel-reading at home can do. Tho Grand, programme is in these several respects satisfying. Tonight is its last in Timaru.