AMUSEMENTS.

Thames Star, Volume LIX, Issue 16644, 14 November 1925, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

ARE YOU A MASON? Laugh and grow fat! An old saying, certainly, and one that, if true, must have caused many slim people to grow stout, judging by the countless thousands who have laughed over “Are You a Mason?” the screamingly-funny comedy to be staged at the King’s Theatre on Monday evening next (by arrangement with J. C. Williamson, Ltd), by the D. B, O’Connor New Musical Comedy Company. In three acts, the comedy is one of bluff. Father-in-law bluffs ma-in-law that he is a Grand Master of a Masonic Lodge. Son-in-law at the same time bluffs wifey that he has become a Freemason. When the two men meet they bluff each other that they are fullfledged Masons. The complications can be imagined. Screamingly funny situations are interspersed with ca-tchy songs and dances, the dialogue is witty and the whole production lavishly mounted and interpreted by a company headed by Mr O’Connor himself, an artist who is already favourably known to local playgoers. “Are You a Mason” will be staged for one night only, being succeeded on Tuesday by “The Girl for the Boy,” a revue success made famous by Lee White. The box plans for the local season are now on view at Chapman and Haynes’, and intending patrons ai’e advised to hook their seats. KING’S THEATRE. Colleen Moore has smashed more screen precedents than any other actress in filmdom. Her latest smash is in her new First National picture, “So Big,” at the King’s Theatre tonight. It has been motion picture tradition, almost, that if So-and-So made his first success while wearing a beard, he must continue to wear a beard in order to hold his following. And if What’s-Her-Name gained popularity as a vampire, she is doomed to vampire roles, or else she loses public favour. Colleen, however, has never played one role consistently, and yet her popularity continues to grow enormously. While flapper roles have been her forte recently, she is now, in “So Big,” portraying a tensely emotional role of three personalities. 'Wallace Berry, Phyllis Haver, Ford Sterling, John Bowers and other favourites are in her supporting cast. The picture was directed by Charles Brabin, under Earl Hudson’s personal supervision. QUEEN’S THEATRE. “The Dressmaker From Paris,” a new Paramount picture featuring Beatrice Joy and Ernest Torrence, which will be shown at the Queen’s to-night, is a fine comedy-drama of a little French girl who rises from modiste’s messenger to the position of Paris’ most prominent fashion designer. Paul Bern directed the production. Allan Forrest is leading man. Others in the cast are Mildred Harris. Larry Gray, Charges Crockett, Rosemary Cooper and “Spec.” O’Donnell. The story opens in Paris at the beginning of the World War. Miss Joy has the role of Fifi, a little midinette who meets Billy Brent (Forrest), an American army officer through accident? It is a case of love at first sight for both. Brent is called to the front and Fifi enters a contest, the winner of which is entitled to study designing in the establishment of a famous modiste.