AMUSEMENTS.

Thames Star, Volume LIX, Issue 16627, 24 October 1925, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS.

ON MONDAY. QUEEN’S THEATRE. In what will go down in motion picture annals as his very best picture, according to the claims of Fox and his associates, Buck Jones,' the popular western star, will be seen at the Queen’s' Theatre on Monday night. This new release is called “The Man Who Played Square,’’ and it is described as “a classic in thrilling romantic melodrama,” and it is said to provide the good-looknig Buck with more opportunties for ingratiating acting, exciting fighting and daredevil riding than any of his previous pictures. It is a story of the most stirring days in the gold-mining country of Northern California and it has to do with a he-man’s battle royal against the great odds of veritable .packs of brute-men of every description and propensity. ON LABOUR DAY. - KING’S THEATRE. * Norma Talmadge in her latest First National picture, “Secrets,” which will be shown at the -King’s Theatre on Monday, lays four different roles in four different periods and in gowns of four different cycles. It is a picture of modern romance with glimpses into three other periods of American home life. Starting out in 1923, the picture later shows Norma first as a young wife of the early days in Wyoming and the far West. Then the action switches to the year 1870. Norma has become the mother of a growing family. The passing years of the photoplay’s story next shows her in the gowns of the late ’Bo’s, of the last century. Her hair has greyed and the children have grown up but it is the same Norma of the early sequences of the . story. Last of all, Norma is shown again in modern costumes in 1923 settings. “Secrets’ is an unusual picture. It has an unusual story which is developed in a novel fashion. And in it Norma has a splendid opportunity,' of which she avails herself to the full, to display her remarkable talent. The story takes us from London to the American Far West in hte days just following the Amenican Civil War, and then returns to the London of to-day. :