SCREEN and STAGE

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17179, 24 October 1923, Page 5

SCREEN and STAGE

NOTES ON CURRENT AND COMING SHOWS

Dramatic ability is apparently a family characteristic of the Prevost girls. Marjorie, equally beautiful sister of the famous Marie, plays one of the roles in “ The Dangerous Age.” a First National attraction produced by John M. Stahl, now showing at the Grand. Walter Hiers’s second comedy, “Sixty Cents an Hour.” showing at. Everybody’s. presents the comedian in a role which will delight his admirers. A.s the happy-go-easy soda-dispenser who finally gets there despite countless rebuffs, Mr Hiers is at his best. Teddie Gerard, an American beauty well known in theatrical circles in London and Paris, plays the leading role in “The Cave Girl,” screening at the Liberty. This picture has a stupendous rescue scene at the brink of a waterfall and the outdoor scenery of the Yosemite Valley in winter -has seldom been surpassed. One of the biggest days in every child’s life—and in the lives of a lot of old folks, too. is circus day—the great parade, the side-shows, the lemonade, everything—in all a general holiday. All the thrills of the old time circus days are portrayed in “Sawdust,” the Universal photoplay starring Gladys Walton, which is now being shown at Greater Crystal Palace. Louise Lovely, famous screen beauty, is a member of the all-star cast, presenting “The Old Nest,” at the Liberty. Miss Lovely’s screen achievements are many and varied- Last year she supported William Fanrum in seven pictures and was playing opposite Lieutenant Omer Locklear at the time he was killed in filming a sensational airplane flight. She began her motion picture career in Australia. The plot of “Pay Day.’’ being screened at the Liberty is complete in itself and abounds with new stunts, novelties and humorous situations that style. In Mack Swain, who rejoined him during the. making of “The Idle Class, the star lias a. good foil, while Edna Purviance furnishes a very attractive and capable feminine lead. Sydney Chaplin is also in the role of a bachelor friend.

Sylvia, Ashton, one of the members of the cast in Rupert Hughes’s “Souls For Sale,” nt Everybody’s, was born on the ocean, but as her parents, were American, claims the same nationality. She went on the stage in 1896 in Denver with Hoyt’s “ The Milk White Flag,” and played in stock and musical comedy on Broadway for ten or twelve years; then she became a screen actress with Max Sennet in the old Biograph Company. She has been seen in a number of Goldwyn productions. Men who can really impersonate the manners and voice of a woman ate as rare as they are good, but Roy Kemble formerly known as Lindsay Kemble through here with the Aussie Diggers —who presents a quick change act at Fuller’s this week, has a feminine singing voice without a, false note. In three songs and change of dress his impersonation was exceedingly good Although his appearance would never deceive a woman his voice would deceive both men and women. Included in the programme of music arranged for the Liberty orchestra this week by Mr Howard Moody are some very fine examples .of the modern French school. Amongst some of tjie most delightful are: “Premiere Rhapsodic” (Zurfleir), “Ombre Complice’’ (Gabriel Marie), “The Silence of the Woods” (Maurice Passe), “Fantasia Ballet” (G. Pares) and “Apaisment ” (Nonges). All of these compositions are being played for the first time in any | picture theatre in Christchurch, and ( they prove highly satisfactory as an i accompaniment to the picture programme. The programme of music arranged for the Grand orchestra this week by ; Miss Agnes Shearsby is particularly well suited to the star picture, “The Dangerous Age.” Amongst the numbers played are the selections “ The Arcadians.” “ The Maid of the Mountains” and “Baby Bunting.” tlie overtures: “ Masaniello,” “Jolly Robber.s ” and “La Socrentina,” the fox trots “Winner.” “ Jabberwocky ’’ and “Rosy Cheeks,” the suite “ Moskowskiana ” and in lighter vein, “Pizzicato Arabesque,” “Romance” and “Reconciliation.” Tlie entra’act© is the lively composition “So Now You Know.”