AMUSEMENTS

Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1691, 26 November 1925, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS

“'FIRES OF FATE.” The ambitious British film production, “Fires of Fate,” will be screened at the Empire Theatre to-night, and is a Master picture, being an adaptation of a story written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, first as a novel, “ The Tragedy of the Korosko,” and afterwards as a play, “Fires of Fate.” The story is based on an actual incident which occurred up the Nile during the time when the author was a newspaper correspondent attached to the staff of Sir Reginald Wingate, Sirdar of the Egyptian army. It is a story of some Cook’s tourists who went up the Nile and got cut off by a band of dervishes, many of them being killed or taken away into the desert. The “ Korosko ” was the boat on which they travelled. Picturised as a film, and actually photographed in Egypt, with the co-opera-tion of the local Government and military authorities and the famous Soudanese camel corps, the episode is very thrillnig. An element of romance 1 etween an American heiress and a colonel in the English army is introduced. The film has a fine climax in the fight between the Soudanese camel corps and the dervishes (played by natives), and the whole ensemble of the picture, with its story of stirring adventure, and its glorious background of Egypt, and introducing the sights of Cairo, Karnak, Luxor, the Libyan desert. and so on, makes it one of the most attractive films presented for a .. ng time. “ DANGEROUS INNOCENCE.” The above picture, a Universal-Jew T el production, is to he shown at the Empire on Saturday. The filming brings together pretty little Laura La Plante and Eugene Olßrien as co-stars. In “ Dangerous Innocence ” these two favourites of filmland have been provided with a vehicle that'cannot hut more strongly entrench them in the public’s favour. In addition to Miss La Plante ; and Mr O’Brien, the production has been given a strong supporting cast. Among the women may he mentioned Hedda Hopper, Milla Davenport, and Martha Mattox, while the secondary male roles are capably handled by Jean (Hsrsholt, Alfred Allen, and William Humphrey. These well-known people of the film world have been grouped n about the stars so that all have been 1 fitted into roles allowing for the best 1 display of their talents. “ Dangerous Innocence ” is adapted ifrom Pamela Wynne’s popular story, '“Ann’s An Idiot,” under William A. ■ Seiter’s direction. THE FUTURISTS COSTUME • COMEDY COMPANY. In the Futurists to be presented at the Empire Theatre on Friday next Messrs C. W. Desmond and C. Northcote are said to have brought together a company of artists who give a performance of burlesque, comic > opera, tragedy, comedy farce, vaude- ’ ville and 'conservatorium concert, all '.blended together into one harmonious j" whole. The show has no dull moments 'says the Auckland Star, and it is a • singularly clean and wholesome inno.vation of the most desirable variety. The dressing, scenery, and mountings are features of the presentation. Headed by Cyril Northcote, a comedian of note, the Futurists have made a name for themselves in the Noith- ■ ern Capital, and there is no room to : doubt the fact that Te Awamutu will 3be just as appreciative of this bright shciw. 'Each member is reputed to be an artist of considerable merit, and ■although the company as a whole are strangers to these parts Mr G. W. Desmond and 'Mr 'C. Heathcote,whose pi e•vious visit was made in conjunction with the Royal Strollers, will he re-■■-called with pleasure. The Futurists have appeared at such widely-separ-ated places as Zanzibar, India, Java, South Africa, Japan, Burma, Sumatra, Malay States, China, Ceylon, United Kingdom, and Australia. The company is strong in comedians, chief among them being Messrs G. W. Desmond, Cyril Northcote, Gus Dawson, and Dassy. Among the ladies of the Futurists are Miss Ira Love (soubrette), Eileen Dalgleish (soubrette), Winnie Egerton (soprano), Gladys Thomas (contralto), and the Cabaret Kittens Ballet. Mr George Corelli, the , ■tenor singer, is said to be an artist of outstanding merit. Mr Barry Ross possesses a pleasing baritone voice, and presents a number of popular items. Mr Jack O’Callaghan, the jazz dancer, adds in no small way to the I success of the performance. The com- | panv numbers twenty-two members in | all, and lias just terminated a phenom- P enally successful season of fourteen g nights in Auckland. The box plan for | tlie local season is now open at. Gif- | ford’s. |