AMUSEMENTS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 19 December 1925, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS.

THEATRE ROYAL. ‘•THE TRIFLERS.” Tlie programme for Fuller patrons at the Theatre Royal this evening will easily bear comparison with the recent excellent entertainments provided by this enterprising firm. Mac Busch and Frank Mayo are the featured players in the big photoplay, “The Triflers,” a powerful society story, in seven reels. It concerns an heiress, and the crowd of admirers who find her name a dollar mark. To escape from the threats of one disappointed lover, she marries a man, not for love, but as a matter of convenience: There is a scientist in love with her, too, and her pity for him in his blindness causes the husband to think that he is the man his wile really loves. He agrees to a divorce, and not until the rejected swain has shot- botli husband and wife is there a bedside reconciliation, and the scientist, happily restored as to eyesight, becomes the firm friend of tho two whose lives he so nearly wrecked. Elliot Box ter, 'Walter Hiers, Eva Novak, and other favourites support the stars. The rest of the programme will comprise: Albertini in “The Iron Man,'’ the latest “Rathe Gazette,” a prisma colour interest subject; special interest will bo iound in “Iho Buccaneers” on account of its being one of the cleverest and funniest of Our Gang comedies that has been released. The Royal Orchestra will number amongst its items .—“Miss Springtime,” “Tho Balkan Princess, “Gaiety Echoes” (selections), “ r lhe> Climax” (Broil), “It Is Only a liny Garden” (Wood), “Kiss Me, Inteyniezzo” (Briglia), “Lovc Lig'iU (Bennett), “Los Muscathns (Machs), “Stradella,” “The Four Ages ot Man (overture). Seats may be reserved through ’phone 570 until i p.m., but not later. The regular matinee will take place this afternoon.

TOM MOORE AND PAULINE STARK—AT THE GRAND. “Adventure,” one of tho last stories iroiii the pen of the late Jack London, ms been' transferred to the screen by Paramount. This picturesque drama ,A the South Sea- begins to-night at die Grand Theatre. If Jack Loudon were alive to-day, lie would probably bo one of the most sought-after writers of screen material. His stories breatho a spirit of realism because ho wrote ot, things and people and places that, lie himself had seen,- observed and visited. “Adventure” is a story-of the presentday life in the savage Solomon Islands -of the South Seas. London wrote ot j that uncivilised corner of the earth from personal, intimate knowledge. Ho lived in the South Seas for a number of years. Many of the incidents lie narrates and which the picture viPidly recreates really happened It is a certainty that the chief characters in the story are of persons London actually met during the coureo of his travels in the tropics. the plot centres around the dynamic adventures of a copra plantation owner and his business partner : a fearless woman soldier of fortune. A stilling 6ncounter with head-hunting cannibals, a thrilling under-sea fight, a fierce, primitive duel and an exciting ship battle are among the outstanding features ill: this do luxe screen play. The notable case ' assembled offers evidence of the scrupulous care that went into, tho making of the production. Everyone of the players chosen has a , pai.t Mmt suits him to the proverbial 1. those featured include such brilliant scicen favourites as Tom Moore, Pauline Starke, "Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton. The supporting programme shows some charming views of A lenna, Jimmy Aubrey in his latest comeclj , “Home Sweets,” and a lengthy Australian Gazette.” Patrons are advised to ’phone their reserves eailj to. 486. '