TOWN HALL PICTURES

Waikato Independent, Volume XXIII, Issue 3073, 21 June 1923, Page 5

TOWN HALL PICTURES

TO-MORROW NIGHT

Mr Abe) Rowe arrived in Cambridge to-day, and will present his entertainment 'at the Town Hull to-morrow nio'ht. Mr liowo has just concluded a tour of the Dominion, in which his "Community Interlude" has been received with great, favour. His season at the Crystal Palace in Christ church was a record one. He possesses a remarkable silver tenor voice, which is sure to please the local public. Little Gladys Walton, the Universal star, 'will appear in one of her pretty pictures of home life in the poorer classes of a country town in America, called "Second-hand Rose."

The heroine of the story is a girl who has been handed out by Fatc'a secondhand hoodoo. She is adopted by sec-ond-hand parents, who own a secondhand clothes store. She wears secondhand clothes, and is only saved at the last moment from marrying a secondhand husband, who had been married before. The flapper in all her myriad variations has been portrayed by Miss Walton in Universal features. 'Now she lis leaving the flapper role to impersonate a different sort of girl in "Secondhand Hose."

And last, but: not least, "Brownie," the famous dog, will show some of his clever acting. This dog is simply wonderful and is worth going a long way to see. - SATURDAY NEXT. There will be the usual matinee- performance of "Stanley in Africa" at 3 o'clock. In the evening, "The Pace in the Fog," will be screened, a thrilling crook story with the moral that "it takes a crook to catch a crook." Boston Rlaekic Dawson, a reformed crook, is called upon to ferret out a nest of Russian criminals, desperate in their search for the diamonds of the Grand Duchess Tatiana. And Boston Blackie gets the rascals in a manner altogether satisfactory to the audience. "The Face in the I'Yig" is a picture ranking j well above the average. The alert I moviegoer trill not miss seeing it,.