TOWN HALL PICTURES

Waikato Independent, Volume XXVII, Issue 2766, 2 April 1927, Page 5

TOWN HALL PICTURES

TO-NIGHT—“FIG LEAVES/' “Fig Leaves" is the rather unusual title for the feature of to-night’s programme at the Town Hall. The production is an' elaborate history of clothes,from Eve in the Garden of Eden to the twentieth century Parisian fashion show; It is a Fox film in which George O’Brien plays Adam and Olive Borden as Eve. The magnificent costumes wornbyMiss Borden are an outstanding- feature of- ah gll-rouiut good production. ; TUESDAY—‘/WILD HORSE MESA" “Wild "Horse Mesa" is an action picture, from the story of that actionfilled romanticist,! Zane Grey. Everyone knows that the Western stories and pictures of Zone Grey are the best of this type that are to be seen. Za»e Grey is a master of the romance of the West, of its thills, its daring, and its people. They are clean,, wholesome thrilling-pictures and the best of them all is “Wild Horse Mesa." Jack Holt is the hero, a hard-riding horse dealer who is friendly with the Indians; Billie Dove, as beautiful and charming as / ever, is the heroine, while, the. bad man is Noah Beery. Others in the east are well chosen and are headed by Douglas Fairbanks, junr. Supporting the aforementioned will be another line picture entitled, “The Mystic," featuring Aileen Pringle and Conway Tearle. “The Mystic" is a melodrama which opens in a Hungarian village with a Gypsy setting and proceeds to the climax where an erstwhile Gypsy and an international trickster are fleecing wealthy patrons through their spiritualistic seances. Coming to the Town Hall on Wednesday is “The Splendid Eoad," a First National picture, featuring Anua Q. Nilsson and Lionel Barrymore; *