SCREEN and STAGE

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17091, 13 July 1923, Page 5

SCREEN and STAGE

“ The Sea "Wolf,” Jack London’s famous story in picture form, and “ The "Wonder 51 an,” featuring Georges Car pen tier, the famous French boxer, will be shown for the last time at the Grand to-morrow. Miss Emilie Polini and company will appear in “My Lady’s Dress ” for the last time at the Theatre Royal tonight. To-morrow night the company will present “ The Lie.” which will also bo given on Monday and Tuesday evenings. ■‘Nobody’s Money,” being screened at Everybody's, is the first real comedy Jack Holt has appeared in. "Wanda Hawley plays the leading feminine role. Others in the cast are Julia Faye, Robert Sellable and Harry Depp. The picture is well worth seeing. “Three Live Ghosts” and “A Kiss in Time ” will bo shown at the Strand for tho last time to-night. Patrons of this theatre will ho interested to learn that it has made arrangements for new film releases, the first of which will be shown to-morrow. “Hush Money,” to be shown at Everybody’s next week, is said to be almost as good as a trip to New York City, so many beautiful and. unusual sets of the great city does the picture show, as well as many intimate scenes in ths lives of the very rich and the very poor, “ This film sets a standard in production which will be hard to follow,” said the London “ Evening News,” of “Robin Hood.” Douglas Fairbanks's great picture, which comes to the Liberty soon. “Clean, invigorating, noble in purpose. and execution, it, is a picture to show to young people.” “The Abyssmal Brute” and “Tho Wild Girl ” will be. the lng attractions at Greater Crystal Palace next week. Tho former is an adaptation of Jack London's famous story and features Reginald Denny. Eva Tongrny said to ho the highest paid vaudeville star in tho world, plavs the loading role in ■• The Wild Girl."' A select company of Australian artists comprise the cast of the new Long-ford-Lyell Australian production “ Tho Dink uni Bloke” which will he shown at the Liberty Theatre to-morrow. Arthur TaUchcrt is very well known to Australian audiences and is well supported by Lottie Lyell, Lotus Thompson. Jack Reymond. Rene Sandcman, Dorothy Dave, Cecil B. Scott and many other favourites. . The settings are a. rare collection of Australian beauty and the story is interesting and intense.

NOTES ON CURRENT AND COMING SHOWS

When “Safety Last,” tho latest Harold Lloyd comedy, was screened at the Ivinema Theatre, Salt Lake City, it set a new record for the showing of one picture by completing a three-weeks continuous run. For a city of 12,000 inhabitants, this record is looked upon as being of even greater importance. At the end of the season business wa3 still good. Hundreds of persons paid tribute recently ;it, the funeral of the late rector of the Snug Little Church Around the Comer, Ney.- York, as the Church of the Transfiguration is known. The Rev Dr George Clark© Houghton had been rector of this well-know i religious edifice for ci great number oi years, and many prominent actors and actresses attended tie funeral. It was a case of the blind leading tho blind in “ Tho Man Who Had Everything,” a. Goldwyn picture coming to tho Liberty to-morrow. Harry Bullway, although possessed of seeing eyes, was blind to all the good things in life until an old man with sightless orbs restored his outlook. Jack Pickford is said, to he at his best in this fascinating Goldwyn story. “Ex-Kaiser Wilhelm in Exile” is an interesting short subject now being screened in America, showing the former German Emperor bearded and grey, on his estate .at Doom, where he appears to he living quite comfortable in a fourteen roomed house, with plenty of company. The picture shows interesting close-ups, apparently taken with difficulty and much to the annoyance of Ids deposed highness. “The Midnight Guest,” coming to thp Strand to-morrow is n, story of humanity. There are three principal characters who are three distinct, types of human beings, commonly knownOne is the confirmed cynic who believes in nothing, another is the optimist who believes only in God and refutes the claim of evil and evil thought, while tho third is tbo commonest victim of evil thought. nnd the cynic’s slander, the worn.” of misfortune. In •• A -Woman* Woman,which comes to the Grand to-morrow, Alary Alden, the star, plays the role oi a mother who is looked down upon for her old-fashionedness by lifer familyBut the same family arc onlv too willing to come to her when real troubles besot them. It is a story of everyday life, flint, will find a parallel in many homes in the eitv. The cast includes such well-known players as J. Barry Sherry and Dorothy MacKnil.

Richard Dix, a, native of St Paul, who escaped from surgery to the speaking stage and later went into pictures, has a role entirely different from any in which he has hitherto been seen in “ Yellow Men and Gold,” at the Liberty. It is an outdoor role and calls for two of the most strenuous fist | fights ever seen—one of them in the water. Mr Dix has been a Goldwyn leading man for two years, appearing usually opposite Helene Chadwick. Stanley Lupino, one of the most , successful of the famous English pantomimic family, has been tumbling and throwing himself about for years and years nnd years. He had often referred to the fact that he was fortunate in meeting with nothing-more serious than a. few abrasions now and again. Last month in England, Lupino broke an elbow. "Whilst running across his well-kept lawn, he slipped nnd fell down! When the last mail left. Stanley was having an enforced holiday. The name of Viola. Dana, is synonymous with youth—happy.. irrepressible, joyous. This dainty star of the Metro photoplays has won her way into the hearts of one of the largest followings that any star has in America. And in this country too, she lias a wonderful lot of supporters who will increase as each of tho new Metro fea- j tures are released. They will look forward to the dainty star of irrepressible youth, in happy roles in joyous plays. She is now appearing at- Everybody's in “ June Madness.” Word came to hand recently that Miles Mxnter, the dainty American movie star, had been missing for over a week, leaving no trace as to her whereabouts. Now it transpires that she had been seeking a little seclusion m the private precincts of a sanitorium. Australians in America who have met Miss Minter describe her as a very like able little person, decidedly highstrung and romantic at times, but withal a clever and discerning young woman. Receiving a great amount of attention from people of all degrees, Mary probably got very tired of it—hence the brief holiday. "When the Paramount picture. “I be Old Homestead,” was produced, facts concerning Grace Church, New York, which, figures in the story, had to bo ascertained. Among other things it was discovered that in 1885, the period of the story, the choir consisted of twenty-eight persons, seven being men. They were grouped in the chancel, and only ordinary garb was worn. This choir will he seen in the picture which comes to Everybody’s Theatre on Monday. It will he recalled that Thiele. .Josh goes to New York, and stopping outside Grace Church, hears the choir singing, and enters to sec if his boy Reuben might he there. Theodore Roberts plays Uncle Josh. Madge Bellamy, the pretty little maid who plays Peggy Fairfax in “ The Hottentot” at the Liberty, was discovered ' ’ for Hie screen by Thomas H. Ince while she was playing on the New York stage. Miss Bellamy, although sho is only nineteen years old, has appeared successfully in eight luce productions. Sho began her stage career when she was fourteen. Her work ns • ; xa n ‘ in “Hail the "Woman” won her such applause that she was starred in Maurice Tourneur s “ Lorn a Dooue.” She is particularly I charming in this racing comedy as the heroin* for whom .-i chap who is desperately afraid of horses orercomo* his Tear and rides to victory in an exciting steeplechase. Tf von visit Paris and find yourself in the position of hullseye to a pistol don't jump to the conclusion that you are hejnr held in> hy n. gunman, says the London -‘Daily Chronicle.” It is just as likely that, you arc being shot iiv the Infest, product of the camera cr-ltsman's art. This little camera looks like a revolver, has a sight like n revolver, hut the only harm it ran possiblv do is to produce a libellous likeness. Actually it- is a triumph ot the camera maker's art. Its pictures nr6 so sharply focussed that they can he enlarged fifteen times without loss of -definition, while in the handle magazine no fewer than forty-eight plates can he carried, and it has the added advantage that it can he manipulated with one hand. That the western, range of America, so long the favourite scene of thrilling photoplays, is not the only place mfested hy desperate bandits, is shown in “The Gentleman from America/ / featuring Edward (Hoot) Gibson at ] Greater Crystal Palace. Bandits of a particularly wild and hold type still infest the mountainous regions of many parrs oi Europe and particularly Spa— l. Hiding deep in the mountains, these Spanish marauders sweep down upon the populace of small villages at intervals and their names instil fear. The experience of an. American doughhoy who impersonated such a bandit and not only got the law but the real bandit chasing him, surely should offer fascinating possibilities for thrilling situations. That is exactly what happens in “The. Gentleman from America, ’ ’ TO NIGHT’S SHOWS. Theatre. Royal.—Emelie Polini in “My Lady’s Dress.” Opera House. —Bert La Blanc's Travesty Stars and Vaudeville. Grand.—“ The Wonder Man” and •■The Sea Wolf.” King's. Sydenham— ‘The Hottentot” and “ Second Hand Rose. Strand.— “ Three Live Ghosts” and “A Kiss in Time.” Liberty.— “ The Hottentot ” and “Yellow Men and Gold. Greater Crystal Palace.—“ One Empty Shell ” and “The Gentleman from America.” Evervbpdv’s.—“ Nobody’s Money” and “ June Madness.”