AMUSEMENTS.

Wairarapa Age, 20 January 1922, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS.

OPERA HOUJSE ' LAST XLGHT “LYING LIPS.” ' Ma.stertoii picture lovers are advise i that to-night is the last opportunity , to see the big special attraction Lying Lips. One of the oddest and most striking sets recently achieved in mo • lion picturedom is that of the Swim- . icing pool and “Nepfune’s Court,’ ’ which was constructed for “Lying Lips, ’ Thomas H. Ince ’fe great drama ! of lite and love To insure the properI effect of spaciousness and luxury, the cameras shot through two interiors toward the sumptuous swimming pool m the background with “King Nep tune” on his throne, tossing immaculately dressed men and beautiful wo- ; men into the pool as his royal fancy dictated. The cement swimming pool on the “lot” at the Ince Studios in Culver City, California, was utilized for these water scenes. Over and , around the pool was built a huge set ; which cost in excess of ten. thousand ; dollars and required a force of from seventy-five to a hundred men four weeks to complete. Altogether it was one of the best and most eleborate i sets ever originated at the Ince Studios. The pool around which the set is built is two hundred feet long ’ and seventy feet wide and contains twelve feet of water throughout its length. About two hundred people took part in the big scene of revelry. As it took three days to film the scenes many of them were in wet clothing a large part of the time. Gas heaters and hot drinks, however, kept up their nerve and strength when the , cameras wore not clicking. Seats may be reserved at Hendersons.

SCANDAL. ‘ The much talked of Comedy | “Scandal” has been packing the 1 Criterion Theatre, Sydney, and the King’s Theatra Melbourne, for the past eight months, and will be seen ' for the first time in this city at the ! Opera House on Tuesday next January I 24, under the direction of J. C. Wili liamson Ltd., by arrangement with • Harry I. Cohen. The action of the ’ entertainment from the first curtain ■ to the last, is entirely away from all ' the so-called boudoir farce, which prompted one of the leading I Sydney critics to say “It is ’ boudoir comedy but incomparably

better than 4 Twin Beds’ and similer pieces.” A specially selected cast has been engaged to present “Scandal” and there can be no doubt that the Company is one of the strongest got together in Australasia for many years. The leading roles are filled by Miss Maud Hanaford, a newcomer, who immediately won her way into the hearts of Australian audiences, and Frank Harvey, whose work in this country is already favorably known. Others in. the cast will be Miss Doris Duane, who appears in the role created in the original New York production, Misses Emma Temple and Audrey Worth. Messrs Cyril Mackay, Harry Foberts, * Kenneth Brampton, John Bedouin Herbert Leigh, and last but by no means least, our old friend Mrs Robert Brough. Box Plan opens at thcBristol this morning.

JOSEPH COYNE COMEDIAN “NIGHTIE NIGHT” Apparently a real treat is in store for playgoers, and lovers of good farce-comedy, in the coming of Joseph Coyne and his exceptional comedy of players under the J C. Williamson Management at the Opera House on Monday next. The attraction will be the famous play in thitee acts and a prologue “Nightie Night” which Mr Coyne will be seen in his great comedy impersonation of Billy Moffatt. It is said by a contemporary that though “Nightie Night” is described as a

farce, there is nothing to deplore in the fact that many of the usual accompaniments of such productions are conspicuous by their absence. There is no broken crockery, no slap-stickery no falling out of windows. Mostly the success of the play depends on the spoken word or on facial expression, with Mr. Josepi Coyne’s face and voice box chiefly responsible for the result attained. As a farceur, Mr. Coyen makes his points easily. His flexible voice enables him. wthout apparent effort, to push even the most.

ordinary jest a long way over the foot lights. In this description o'f entertainment, Mr. Coyne is probably the greatest artist in the world to-day. The play is based on various domestic misunderstandings which follow the casual meeting in a Pullman car of

Lilly Moffatt (Mr. Coyne) and Tri.xic Lorraine (Miss Marie La Varre) and the joint authors have dealt amusingly with a series of situations arising from the encounter. A bref prologue covering this episode, paves the way for a succession of hilarious consequences, and once the first act is well under way, the play becomes the “riot”

which the management claims that it is. Miss La Varre appears to excellent advantage at Trixie, the theartricai lady who was a friend of Billy Moffatt before his marriage. Miss Marjorie Bennett, as Biily’s suspicious wife, is particularly fortunate in her part, the authors having supplied her lines with an adequate- share of humour; ana

the part of Ernestine (Miss Rubi Treleaso) is also a satisfactory- one for much the same reason. In the part of Norah, an irrespressiblo “help” MU i Cecil Spong gives the usual low co:. Oily rendering of such a character, with much abandon. Mr Sidnev Stirling (Jmmic Blythe) W. .1. Kelly (Dr. Be. i'.ey) and R. A Umg (Philip) are aso finely cast. The Box- Plans are ■<'- - at, the Bristol 1' no ’‘pinnay.

COST DE LUXE LAST NIGHT OF PROGRAMME. The current programme at the Cosy de Luxe will have its final screening this evening. There’s a new angle to the marooned-on-an-island plot Li “The Torrent.” {Shortage of gasoline causes a Government aviator to land on an uncharted island in the Pacific and there he finds the girl who mar ried a millionaire, but who really loves him. If that isn’t a twentieth century situation, what is? Eva Novak is the blonde start in this picture, and although this is only her second stellar picture, she may well be called :i “star.” Miss Novak is quite a different type of beauty from her sister Jane, but she has the same dramatic ability. In Stuart Paton’s production of George Rix’s story, Eva Novak i.a spirited girl who sends her aviato? lover away and marries for money. Naturally she regrets it, and finds'her husband and his friends : ;ost distasteful. Cruising'on his yacht she gets in the tender and trails at the end of the rope to get a little solitude. Her husband, drunk, searching for her, falls and stuns himself, and the parly thinks he is dead. The girl at the end of the rope is startled at their crie? and drops her line. She is adrift in the open sea in a rowboat. When she is thrown ashore in a storm and meets th man she loves (played by Jack Perrin) they have many adventures together. The story has an ending that is decidedly unusual when they fight, their way back to civilisation, to find that her husband is still alive. The husband’s amused handling of the situation has a certain grim humor to it.

W.A.A. CLUB’S NIGHT CARNIVAL The night cawiival in the Park on Monday is expected to eclipse anything previously attempted in this line. The Wairarapa A.A. Club, which has always been favourably known for its management, has left nothing undone that would tend to the general enjoyment of the public, and tliis is sufficient guarantee of a bright and pleasant entertainment. The carnival starts at 8 o’clock.