ENTERTAINMENTS.

Waipa Post, Volume XXI, Issue 1301, 7 October 1922, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS.

"A WIDE-OPEN TOWN." "A Wide Open Town." the Selznick picture to be shown at the Empire Theatre on Tuesday, is easily one of the most interesting in which Mr Tearle has yet been offered. The storv is interesting and chock-a-block with action. The settings are. in mam- instances, quite novel, one of them showing a big gambling casino in active operation. Mr Tearle has a role which suits him well, and, as usual, he gives a good account of himself. THE GREAT MOMENT. This Paramount attraction, which is to be screened at the Empire Theatre on Wednesday, is from the story by Eleanor Glyn, and you may deduce something extra in the way of screen value: and so it proves. Nadine Pelham is the daughter of an aristocratic father, her mother being a Russian gypsy. The combination is responsible for the daughter inheriting the excellent mannerisms of her aristocratic male parent, whilst retaining the wild, passionate nature of the mother, these attributes coming to the surface from time to time. The girl is, in the main, a very irresponsible young lady, and to tone her down, the father arranges her engagement with her English cousin, but the inane Englishman makes no appeal to her. Whilst on a tour of the mines controlled by her father, she meets Bayard Delavel, the engineer, and this is .the "great moment." wherein she realises her first love. Later thai girl is bitten by ,a rattlesnake, and the engineer carries her to his hut, administering raw whisky as the antidote. Fired by the ?iquor she tells of her love, when the father and his party arrive on the scene: and the irate parent looking upon the incident as most uncompromising, insists that the engineer marry the girl. The father and his aristocratic friends, after the hurried marriage (during which a hairpin does for the ring) leave in disgust. Believing that the girl regrets her hasty marriage, the husband has the marriage annulled. The divorcee, still in love with her husband, plays fast and loose, but there is an ultimate understanding and renewals of love and marriage. The picture is most fittingly presented, with the star wearing some gorgeous gowns.