AMUSEMENTS.

Thames Star, Volume LVII, 24 August 1923, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

KING’S THEATRE. DREAM STREET. D. W. Griffiths has made a great nine part picture in “Dream! Street” founded on the story of Thomas Burke’s in the well known “Limehouse Nights” series. The foundation of the play inevitable challenges comparison with “Broken Blossoms but this is a different kind of story altogether, and the ending is as happy as sunshine Carol Dempster in the leading role is very wayward and notably beautiful, and the supporting cast is so splendid as to deserve special mention. Ralph Graves as the blustering handsome Me Fadden the dreaming melody writer, is a genuine poet. Then there is the sly evil leering Oriental Sway Wan, wonderfully done by Edward Pheil. The whole play is a great achievement and worthy of the fame of the great producer. At the King’s to-night. QUEEN’S THEATRE. Gladys Walton will be seen in her new picture at the \Cosey Queen’s to-night only “A Dangerous Game.” Gladys Walton has scored notably in recent months on the screen. The locale of the story starts in the back woods and shifts to a pretentious home in the city owned by* a newlyrich oil millionaire. Chapter four of “Perils of the Yukon,” a Gazette and a 2-reel comedy complete the bill. To-morrow a fine double-star programme will be screened. Jack Holt in “The Man Unconquerable,” and Wanda Hawley in a breezy 5reel comedy drama “bier First Elopment.” HUNTING BIG GAME IN AFRICA. The thrilling picture, “Hunting Big Game in Africa,” is attracting general attention throughout New Zealand, jts educational value being equal to anything hitherto screened here. Taken by an expedition led by H. A. Snow the series is both graphic and engrossing. The chief thrills ar e in the hunting of the man-killers of the jungle—lions, rhinos, and elephants. In the lion hunt one of the hunters accompanying the party was killed. The supreme thrill comes when the camera man is charged by a maddened elephant. It nearly cost the lives of the entire party. The picture also shows various savage tribes of Africa in their native costumes, war paint, and dance ceremonials. On the same programme is a 5-act Circus ■Gama entitled “Shirley of the Circus,” starring Shirley Mason. The entire programme will be screened at the King’s next Tuesday and Wednesday.