AMUSEMENTS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 28 May 1923, Page 11

AMUSEMENTS.

1 FULLERS’ PICTURES:

| The Theatre Royai . accommodated || Saturday’a large attendances with, noil thing tti spare; .and. the new series of | films proved highly interesting arid eiiH tertaining: The Pathe Gazette boriH bains maiiy items, bf moment; from far || and near; arid “Counter Plot” is a | rousing • fcbmedy, full .Of fuii from first H to last; Labk of faririliaiW with Ame; | fician ways .involved Ming Toy; as yl played. by. Constance Taim.adge m || “East,is West,”. the First .National AtIn raetion, which fibads the bill, in several a tensely dramatib. sithatons and also in S! as great, a hum her' td. humorous 31168 riients: Ming Toy. is tafiert to America B by the kindly to Sang Nee. after her S§ sensational escapb front the ‘Ldye 3 Boat” in China, whbie she Was ab.dut f$ to be sold at auction; Iri ... America, ® Ming Toy first iives lit Sari Francisco s Chinatown, and tbe oiily whites whom m she pan observe closely are the habitues Iw bf Nelly’s dance hall across tbe street. || The mannerisms which, Ming Toy acK quires, make jimmy Potter a settleirient wofker, think tnafc she is ■ tre- | mendbiisl}'.. Sophisticated; But Billy Benson, Wh& has loved her since first ■» he saw her in China, knows' --better—n and proves it in the eight exciting reels g of this remarkable photoplay; The sup|j porting cast includes Nigel BArne and M Warner Oland.

THE GRAND,

Picture patrons at the Grand on Saturday were delighted to renew acquaintance with that strong and 'effective scfeeli Actor,. \Viri. S. Platt, - of whom, all-too little is 'seen. He ’was seen in a picture called “Ti-avellin Oil.” a Paramount of considerable worth-. This is art epic of the west. The story runs that out in Arizona, past where the West begins, is a 'Hell--pit known as Tumble Bluff. It is a spot into Which tumble all the queerest characters in the World. It is .dominated by a ' tWo-guhned personality named M’Gee who speaks his oracles with a leaden tongue. One day there turiibles into towu a preacher with his wife and child,; ....M’Gee recognises in him a former partner in crime, apd is at first loath to have him remain. But one glimpse bf the wife and M’Gee decides that the preacher is to remain in the town, and he does n,ot even hinder him When Morton commences to build a church; At a critical moment, when M’Gee is pursuing his plans, J.B. arrives on the scene. He is a man who caii neither read nor write 1 and who does not even know his own name, having adopted a cattle brand as a substitute'. Seeing the woman, lie too, loves her, but with a love different from that of M’Gee. Excepting himself; lie trusts nothing that walks on less than four legs, and it is this trust in' himself that he hoagtingly asserts to Susan Morton. J.B. and M’Gee thus become riyals, but the former s faith in himself is self-assertive And he triumphs each time. . There comes a time, though, when Morton finds the obstacles between him and the consummation' of his duty so great that he resoi-bs to' l-pbbery to gain further funds. This is about to give M Lee the winning hand, when J.B , seeing in a Hash the light long denied Timi, in the undying devotion of Susan Morton to her husband condemned to be hanged, assumes the preacher’s guilt, and, dramatically making his escape, leaves the little family to peace and', happiness. The acting throughout is. powerful, and the settings are good. An American Gazette, a Travelogue,' and a comedy, complete a first-class programme.

PICTURES AT GERALDINE

Many great pictures have come to New Zealand, but for sheer out and outmerit it will be hard to equal “Jlio Prisoner of Zenda,” wliich is to bo shown to-night in the Drill Hall, GeraJ-, dine; The picturo is a Metro production, and will certainly go down as a masterpiece of the cinema. As a story nothing could be more thrilling and o-ripping, while the acting is in A (, h iss decidedly beyond the ordinary Hie settings arc gorgeous, to say the least of them, the scenic effects being par 7 tieularly beautiful, while the interior and the court ballroom scenes are la visa to a formerly unattempted dcgicc. Pictures such as “The 1 nsonei «»i Zenda” are milestones m the < cycle - ment of cinematography, and the opportunity of seeing the greatness o art as portrayed in the him unde .<•- view should not be missed. lo- 1 w il] bo the only showing m Ueiaklim..