EVERYBODY’S HAS TWO HUMAN FILMS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17835, 1 May 1926, Page 6

EVERYBODY’S HAS TWO HUMAN FILMS.

“ WHAT FOOLS MEN ARE ” AND “ WAY OF A GIRL.”

“You can fool some of the people all the time; you can fool all the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all the people all the time.” Lincoln was right, of course, but he forgot that that there is something, or someone who can fool all men all the time, and Lewis Stone and Shirley Mason combine at Everybody’s Theatre next week in “What Fools Men” to prove it. This First National picture is a tense and dramatic story with an original atmosphere about it that stamps it as one with a strong and insistent appeal, a storv livened opportune moments by a brisk tone of comedy which, coupled with its unusual theme, enables this film to rank with the more human, everyday-life pictures given us. Underneath the picture’s occasionally light and flippant exterior there is a depth of purpose and intent which expounds its much needed lesson without appearing to do so, which is, after all, the highest art. Admirers of Lewis Stone, acknowledged as one of the most consumate actors on the silver sheet, find in his present characterisation a concentration of the real Stone finesse and suavity, with a new admixture of the fire and vigour so necessary in the portrayal of the forceful, dominant personality- of Joseph Greer. No less an attraction is the dainty- and vivacious Shirley Mason, who play-s the role of Stone’s daughter in her usual finished manner. A superior cast support the stars, included in which are such welknown players as David Torrence, Ethel Grey Terry and John Patrick.

The second feature is “The Way- of a Girl,” starring the talented and charming Eleanor Boardman, and is a swift, thrilling story of a girl who didn’t mind who made the speed laws so long as she could break them; not only- motor-car speed laws but any edict that called for decorum and convention. This girl loved to scout them all. and after leading her irreproachable proper fiance a harrowing dance, she broke out on her own. Just what happened makes one of the most humorous and entertaining pictures of the year. Matt Moore plays opposite the star, a dryly funny and deftly polite gentleman who rises to heroic heights when the occasion demands it Also on the programme is a Felix the Fat cartoon, entitled “Felix all Balled Up.’ ’

Every-body’s Select Orchestra, under Mr W. J. Bellingham. F.S.M., will play a programme of orchestral music, including the following: Overture, “American Patrol'' (Zamechik); suites, “Rondo alia Zingarese” (Brahms); “Bajaderentanz” (Rubenstein) ; ballet music, “Copellia” (Delibes) ; Slavonic Dances, “No. 6” (Pocca Allegro) ; “No. 16” (Lento Grazioso) (Dvorak); entr’acte, “Broken Melody-” (Van Biene); light selections, “Belle of New York” (Kerker);

“Kat.ja” (Gilbert). The box plans are at the Bristol Piano Company-, where seats may be reserved.