ENTERTAINMENTS

Waikato Independent, Volume XXIII, Issue 3075, 26 June 1923, Page 5

ENTERTAINMENTS

TOWN HALL PICTURES TO-MORROW To-morrow afternoon at 3.30 p.m. the seconded chapter of “In the Days of Buffalo Bill,” will he shown. This is a very fine picture and quite a new idea in serial pictures. The first chapter made a great impression on both young and old last Wednesday. It gives a very good idea of what the country was like before the coming of the great railway track that reaches right across the American continent. In the evening, Bebe Daniels will appear in “One Wild Week.” This time she portrays an orphan who is brought up very strictly by a spinster aunt. The girl has such a dreary girlhood that she determines to make up for lost time as soon as she reaches her majority. Hence the title, “One Wild Week. ’’ Miss Daniels lias a whimsical personality and an elfish beaut}', which especially fit her for roles of the ‘ ‘ good-little-bad-girl ” type —the girl who is always up to mischief and always iff trouble because of her high spirits, not because she is wantonly bad. There isn’t anyone else on the screen just like Miss Daniels. She doesn’t imitate anybody, and one never hoars the comment, “Oh, that’s just'like So-and-so.” Miss Daniels’ gestures, expressions and manners are as individual as her beauty.

“MY FRIEND THE DEVIL.’ ’ .y FRIDAY NIGHT. •£ The long heralded motion picture version of Georges Ohmet’s celebrated novel. “Dr Rameau,’’ which in screen form will be featured at the Town Hall next Friday night, is called “My Friend the Devil.’’ If is a William Fox special production, and Charles Richman, a’dramatic actor of exceptional ability, plays the leading role of Dr. George Drvdcn. Barbara Castleton, according to all reports, gives a telling characterisation of the faithless wife of the great surgeon and Peggy Shaw, who has had a rapid rise to fame on the screen, portrays the role of Dr Dryden ’s daughter.

Few stories contain such a wealth of screen material as Ohmet’s famous novel and the many dramatic situations and the compelling underlying theme of the story promises something new in motion picture entertainment.