AMUSEMENTS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, 24 July 1925, Page 11

AMUSEMENTS.

THE GRAND. “THE MAN WHO PLAYED SQUARE.”

Iho popularity of Buck Jones, the famous western star, was further evidenced at tiie Grand Theatre last night, i'. 1 , 0 ' 1 second screening of “Tho Man Who flayed Square” again received a, gieat reception. Tho film unfolds a comedy drama of epochal importance, since it is acknowledged to make a vivid visualised pictorial record of tho spirit actuating the men who made gold mining in Northern Calfornia such an alluring business in the earliest davs of tho famous gold rush. Buck Jones, as tne. hero, is summoned into the gold region by a life-long pa 1, who needed hi said after a mortal clash with a villainous tyrant, who sought to deprive him of. hi* interest in the most valuable mine thereabout. Ho arrives on the scene in time to bear his pal’s dying statement, and to receive a deed m hri. favour. /This leads to intense activities to see_ justice done, and from this point stirring events happen in great rapidity. Excellent supporting pictures are also shown, and especially bright music was contributed by the Grand Orchestra.

THEATRE ROYAL. “THE PRICE OF PLEASURE.”

If only for the scene of tho elevator changirig its course up and down the shaft, operated by an irate young woman, tho new picture at tho Theatre Royal is worth while. “Tho Price of Pleasure,” Universal’s latest, featuring Virginia, Valli and Norman Kerry, is entertainment plus. Its the lionestest photoplay in a long time, once it gets going alter a slow start —good oldfashioned romance, served by the director with charming delicacy and sincerity. It is the story of Linnie, the beautiful bargain basement girl. Now, who is tho chap who flips his duster in Lor car as sho weeps midst the hardware in aisle six?—Lo, ho turns out to bo a young millionaire! He’s a Schuyler—one Garry Schuyler—and lie is hunting romance in this particular basement. A week of clothes and parties, and llowers and loveliness he gives Linnie, always with that touch of delicacy that rings true, and when the time comes for Linnie to go back to the basement he marries her. Then the talo is of the hatred of Garry’s aristocratic mother and sister for tbo new daughter-in-law, and tho many schemes they hatch. Garry thought her dead, and while he is wandering around the world with brain fever Jots of tilings happen. It has to bo seen to bo appreciated. There is a moment when Virginia Valli (as Linnie) collapses into her husband’s arms, wilted by tho cold stares of his niother_ and sister, that is superb. Norman Kerry plays tho hero admirably, and the rest of the cast is unusually good. __ The supports include the “Universal News,” a, gazette, and a hilarious comedy “Don’t Worry.” With a brilliant musical score, the Royal Orchestra, under tho direction of Mrs Agnes Scott, excelled itself.