ATTRACTIONS FOR THE WEEK.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17864, 4 June 1926, Page 7

ATTRACTIONS FOR THE WEEK.

UVERYBODy'S THEATRE “ RAINBOW RILEY ” EVERYBODY'S THEATRE “ HELEN'S BABIES ” LIBERTY THEATRE “ LITTLE OLD NEW YORK ” LIBERTY THEATRE “ THE CONFESSIONS OF A QTJ3BN GREATER CRYSTAL PALACE “ THE PONY EXPRESS ” QUEEN'S THEATRE “ THE PARK ANQEL ” QUEEN'S THEATRE “ NORTH OP NEVADA ” GRAND THEATRE “ THOSE WHO JUDGE ” GRAND THEATRE “ THE REMITTANCE WOMAN ” THEATRE ROYAL “ GIVE AND TAKE " (Prom J.une 2) FULLER'S OPERA HOUSE . . . . VAUDEVILLE

Solomon in all his glory was nevci moro glorious than his father. King David. The story of King David anc Bath-Shcba is wonderfully depicted ir natural colours, with all the lavish de tails’of court life in ancientf* Terusalem i'l '* So This is Marriage.’?' a Metro Gol<fwyn picture, which comes 1< Everybody's Theatre on Monday The production was framed on the original story by Carey Wilson and directed by Hobart Henley, and is a shrewd com mentary on modern vnarrihge, bring ing into it the above as a beautiful sequence. The story tells of a flapper wife and her foolish ways, and a steady easy-going husband, together with a bachelor who studied worn'en. He came, was seen and conquered That’s the story of Rin-Tin-Tin, the wonder dog. starring in Master pictures. When the Warners first announced that they had a dog star for the screen, the motion picture world was frankly sceptical. Xow even the former sceptics crowd in to see Rin-Tin Tin, for they realise that this marvellous dog is one of the truly great actors of the screen. You’ll sec him at his when you see him in his latest picture. “ Tracked, in the Snow • '©untry.'’ which comes to Everybody's Theatre on Mondav. ’ x Frank Lloyd’s most re£ent epic. “ The Splendid Road.” dealing with the trials and tribulations of the pioneers of the West, will be offered for the first time at the Grand Theatre on Monday. Anna Q. Xilsson. Robert Frazer and Lionel Barrymore 'are the featured players in this bri’liant pieturisation of Vingie E. Roe’s widely read novel. The Sacramento River valley during the gold boom and famous flood of ’4?) provide background for the drama. Miss Xilsson is said to assume her most impressive Screen character in portraying Sandra de Hault. who made hei way in the rough, new country, playing a man's game in 2 man's way. Man always erases that which is beyond him. It is the unattainable for which we all cr>x evfen the baby when he reaches for tie moon. In his new role, ” The Count of Luxembourg. ’ at the Liberty George Walsh walks the earth as to the manner born, but Walsh ass*rts that the royalty of his bearing cones from his years of work on the gridiron and field. However, there is one part in this new picture that dees appeal to the popular young star AH his life he watched longingly tie artist with his crayon. But his lovhg friends declare that they can’t tell r crane from a cow. though his work nay be purely cubistic.

In IS6O the pony express riders carried the news of Lincoln’s election across the Continent in a record time of eight days. What strides hat e been made in the delivery of mails. To-day with the air mail the Continent is crossed in thirty-four hours. But the Paramount picture “ The Pony Express.’’ at Greater Crystal Palace, tells a thrilling romance of the days of the Pony Express. Under Director James Cruze a picked company of players journeyed to the Slate of Wyoming to make the picture. Eddie Gribbon. the screen's “ perfect burglar." and Harry Todd, who has made millions laugh from stage and screen, form the combination that produces the side-splitting comedy for ” Under Western Skies." an Edward Sedgwick-U nivcrsal-Jewel production that is coming to the Grand Theatre. It is rarely that two such well-known screen comedians are brought together in the same picture. Universal has given the picture an all-star cast. Among the placers are Norman Kerry, Anne Cornwall. Ward Crane. Kathleen Ivey. George Fawcett. Charles K. French. Eddie Gribbon. Harry Todd. William Steele. Frank banning and John Peters. Edward Sedgwick directed the picture.