AMUSEMENTS.

Wairarapa Age, 27 October 1926, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS.

OPERA HOUSE. . When D. W. Griffith’s sensational melodrama, “That Royle Girl,” opens its local engagement at the Opera House to-night, picture-goers will have a complete and post-graduate course in jazz. The keynote of the production is jazz, its background is the jazz belt of Chicago, its story treats of a vivid phase of our ultra-modern jazz life and its settings, which include several elaborate cabarets, are in harmony /with the all-pervading spirit of jazz. One of these jazz palaces is done in cubist colour effects. It is a weird combination of angles and points with Satan casting shadows across the top. Another is a basement effect furnished with heavy furniture, red and white checked table cloths, beams and carved woodwork. A third has been laid out along Egyptian lines, is named Tut’s Tavern, and is the,scene of one of the wildest parties staged in the picture. Reserves at Henderson’s. COSY DE LUXE. “The King on Main Street,” Monta Bell’s first production for Paramount, which opened yesterday at the Cosy Theatre, tells o£ the heart affairs of a wordly, philandering monarch, played to perfection by Adolphe Menjou, whose career is deflected from its gay and carefree course by an encounter with a wholesome American girl; an interlude that has a profound influence on the jacked king. Menjou, starred by Greta Nissen and Gessie Love, both featured in this screen version of Leo Ditrichstcin’s successful stage play. “The,, King.” As Serge IV of the little European kingdom of Molvania, Menjou is advised by his ministers that a loan is necessary to save the country. Making his choice between marriage and a trip to America, the king arrives in Nev.- York nil r.et fn break a fev; more hearts. A grct:p of

financiers are awaiting him to discuss a proposed oil lease. Bored by it all, the king slips out and boards a ’bus marked Coney Island. The turnstiles and gay amusements stump him until he meets a typical American who introduces him to everything on the Island. Following this he is invited to spend a week-end in Little Falls as the guest of a young “go-getter.” Here he meets a beautiful young girl (Bessie Love). A clean romance springs up—something the lung had never before experienced in his beauty-starved life. The opening and final scenes of “The King on Main Street,” showing a gorgeous dress review of the Molcanian troops, are done in natural colours.