EVERYBODY’S THEATRE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17180, 25 October 1923, Page 5

EVERYBODY’S THEATRE.

Everybody loves a thrill. With most people, the bigger the thrill the better they like it. Some people are apt tc frown on what they term seusalionalism, but even these are not lacking in appreciation of a good thrill, or slow to respond with quickening pulse tc the influence of some well-arranged and executed piece of cinema effect. Patrons at Everybody's Theatre get something special in the way of thrills, and for that reason, if for nc other, vote Goldwyn’s new Rupert Hughes picture. “Souls for Sale,” one of the best that has been submitted for a. long while. Of course, the picture lias attributes other than its wonderful climax to place it among the great productions of the studios, buf the startling nature of the climax sc transcends anything else in the filn and so overshadows the contrihutinj incidents, that it naturally makes s very powerful appeal to the imagination and creates a vivid impressior that is not readily lost. The clirna? depicts the burning of a big. circu; tent. A movie company is shown film ing a storm scene in the circus, and during the height of the mock tern j>est. a real storm of hurricane force occurs. The scene possesses this nove characteristic, that the audience i: shown first the make-believe storm, and then the scene is overwhelmed by th< real storm. Of a quite different type is ” Sixty Cents an Hour.' b picture in which Walter Hiers

quite lives up to the promise to provide sixty laughs an minute. Hiers is a clerk with wide ambitions and a shrunken hank account, whom a. harsh world has robbed of everything hut his optimism and his firm belief that, sooner or later, lie will make the town sit up and take notice. He does it. and gives good measure in the doing. An admirable musical programme is provided by the orchestra.