AMUSEMENTS.

Wairarapa Age, 12 March 1923, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS.

COSY DE LUXE. There was not a vacant seat at the Cosy de Luxe on Saturday night when the new double attraction programme had an excellent reception. “Heroes and Husbands” in which Katherine MacDonald starred, proved a highly entertaining drama. Cast as the captain of a smuggling schooner Dorothy Phillips was seen in “Huricane’s Girl,” a First National attraction produced by Allen Holubar. Lola the girl captain, has a fiery temperament and she rules her crow by brute force. A government secret service agent, who has concealed himself in the schooner’s hole, is revealed early in the story. Shielding his real identity, he arouses the love of the girl, who never had felt such attraction toward a man before. Revenue officers seize the vessel, but the girl escapes in a life boat with a Swedish mate and a Chinese cook. Later she meets again the man who betrayed her after arousing her affections. The struggle between love and hate rages in her soul until the conflict is finally terminated, after a pursuit across the Pacific, and she and her lover are re-united. Robert Ellis is leading man to Miss Phillips. PARAMOUNT. The Paramount Theatre was well filled on Saturday evening when the week-end change of programme had a good run. “The Conquest of Candan,” The main attraction, was some 8000 feet in length and was as the name indicates, taken from Booth Tarkington’s famous novel of that name. The story went to show how capital magnates, who on the surface lead apparently virtuous and upright lives and miscall anyone who errs, are often connected behind the scenes with illicit trade or actions akin to robbery, etc. As the boycotted poor lawyer ia a strictly principled town, Thomas Meighan plays a great part and rises to farther heights in success. Doris Kenyon, who supports him, plays an excellent and attractive part, * and sustains her act well as the rich girl who sticks to her miscalled beau throughout his trials till he rises above all his persecutors in the end. This programme show :S again to-night. OPERA HOUSE. “FOOLISH WIVES.” We are informed by the Jjni/ersal Film Company that over tw> hundred copies of the mill’’on dollar picture “Foolish Wives** are bewr* shown simultaneously throughout America and Canada. The total admissions paid to sec this picture in both countri. will be in tup vicnitv of eight million dollars. This seems an enormous amount of money but the American picture-loving public arc quick to patronise what is known as .. “Super-Picture.” “Foolish M ives ’ having been two years in the making has been talked about, watched for, and advertised in a most extraordinary manner and its tremendous success from the beginning has established it as the premier picture of the present day. As small a country a s New is, there is no place in the world where better support is given to anything in the wav of rnfctajinmont that is meritorious. The Universal Company! jc nnnC ’ ~t. nf the SUCCPSS of “Foolish Wives” in New Zealand because of its International appeal. This gorgeous production commences a three night and two matinee season on Wednesday next. THE SENTIMENTAL BLOKE. E. J. and Dan Carroll announce with pkn’i’-A the coming production of a New Australian Comedy Drama m three acts being C. J. Dennis’ own stage version of his famous ,verses which, in - rint and picture, have won a world-wide reputation. One reason why “The Sent cental Bloke” has been a 1 - while reaching the spoken stage, r ’ Dennis declares, is that h? has r‘ : ' now never been able to gather i ' a completely satisfying r? '-ico or twice th a right people almost all available, but ’ p’s nt one important which the necessary actor i *- thorp. And so ‘ in three acts of ’ laughs •••: ■ rs. and a quaint rr

vigorous prologue was delayed till 10 ago. when with tv- assistance of E. J. and D. Oarroll, Mr Dennis was able to get a company of principals which truly realised the characters of the famous verses. Masterton will have the honour of seeing this delightful comedy for one night only on Monday, March 19, and -o box plan will open on Friday next at the Bristol.