SCREEN & STAGE

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17245, 11 January 1924, Page 5

SCREEN & STAGE

NOTES ON CUKBENT AND COMING SaOJVjS.

A special circus matinee will be given at 2.30 to-day hv Wirth Bros.’ Circus, when children will he admitted at half price to all parts. This a rare opportunity for mothers and their children to enjoy an afternoon’s entertainment. The usual evening performance will be given at 8 o’clock.

Stiffy and Mo at the Club " ars delighting good audiences at the Opera House nightly. The antics and witty dialogue of these two is a source of merriment and delightful entertainment from their first appearance until the fall of tho curtain.

The brilliant work done hy the talented Italian stars, Sigftor Coscia and Signora Coelho. at the Opera House, is receiving well merited applause. Signora Coelho is verily a master with the how, while the singing of Signor Coscia is worth going a long way to hear

The management of Everybody’s Theatre’ announce that-, during the year 1924, every Saturday afternoon, a special matinee for children will be given. Also throughout this week, a lucky bran tub will be j>laced j n the vestibule of the theatre and every child with a ticket of admission will be entitled to a free dip.

Matt Moore, who has achieved so many successes as leading man, is appealing opposite Priscilla Dean in “Drifting,” the Universal-Jewell production now screening at Greater Crystal Palace. The theme of the story is laid in the mysterious atmosphere of inland villages of China-. Shanghai is also an important locale in the story. A charming love interest, a welldeveloped aud unusual plot containing thrills, suspense and mystery, make “A Clouded Name,” the Playgoers feature now screening at Greater Crystal Palaoe, a picture that pleases all. The story centres round the characters enacted by beautiful Norma Shearer, Gladden James and Yvonne Logan and a clever child actress. Claire Adams mad her start in theatricals while going to the St Hildas Academy in Calgary, Canada. She later spent a short time on the stage. In 1918 she was given the star part in the film version of Zane Grey’s novel “ The Desert of "Wheat..” She was starred in “ Dwelling Place of Light ” and had a prominent part in Goldwyn’s “The Penalty.” She has the role of “Ethel” in the Goldwyn picture “The Great Lover,” which has had such a successful week at the Liberty. It will be screened for the last time to-night.

“Smiling All the Way.” the highly successful comedy-drama featuring Leatrice Joy arid David Butler, will be screened for the last time at the Grand to-night. For a reallv enjoyable half hour's entertainment patrons should not misg this delightful picture. Tho screen interpretation of Ethel M. Dell’s “ The Place of Honour” will be shown to patrons of the Grand for the last time to-night “The Place of Honour” is a stirring romance of frontier life in India ; the acting is perfect, afld many beautiful settings are seen throughout the production.

“The Bright Shawl,” in which Richard Barthlemess is being starred, brings a touch of sentiment that will appeal to theatre-goers. Dorothy Gish, is also featuring in, one of the leading feminine roles. “ The Bright Shawl ” will be screened at the Liberty Theatre for the last time to-night.

Charles Jones, the star of “Second Hand Love/’ which is screening at Everybody’s Theatre now, has a biography which reads like a Richard Harding Davis story. Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, the famous star was once a circus horseback rider, a cowpuncher. mechanic and aeronaut. “ Second Hand Love ” will have its final screening here to-morrow night.

The Commonwealth Government, in conjunction with J. C-. Williamson Ltd., will be celebrating the visit of the Japanese Fleet to Melbourne by a. Gala Performance at Her Majesty's The it re. This will take place on Tuesday night, January 15. the production being the “ Alladin ” pantomime. Owen Moor© and Alice Lake, plioto'playing at the job of newly-weds, buy a cute little compoboard bungalow in Swampus Manor from the Swampus Realty Co., take on a variload qf furniture from the Cheerful Credit Co., and start housekeeping- - without payrig out a nickel. Then their troubles begin.. This is the story of “ Modern Matrimony,” which is still delighting audiences at Everybody’s. Rodolph Valentino will offer “ The Conquering Power,” as his first Paramount picture to he screened at the Queen’s Theatre, to commence on Monday. This picture was made by the man who created “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse”—Rex Tngram. lit is a powerful story from the French novel “ Uugene Grandet,” and deals with the forces of love, gold and avarice.

“Bella Donna,” will b© screened for the last time to-morrow. Pola Negri has established herself among New Zealand moving picture enthusiasts as one of the most popular of the new screen stars. No more scintillating character than this wonderful Russian could have been found to portray the character, “ Bella Donna ” of Robert. Hitchens novel, if the whole of filmdom had been searched. The story is sot largely in the East and it contains some of the most wonderful scenes of the Nile River that have ever been brought into any screen drama. • * Paramount’s great triumph, “ The Covered "Waggon,” comes to Everybody’s and Greater Crystal Palace on Monday next. This production has long been heralded in Christchurch, and possibly never before has such* a triumph of motion picture are come t-o this city. It is not. only a picture dealing with the great era of pioneering days, it is a romance imbued with ail the ideas of entertainment that the present-day -picture-goers look for. Without doubt “The Covered Waggon” will be received hero as the truly great screen production of the day.