AMUSEMENTS

Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1779, 6 July 1926, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS

TO-NI'G'HT

'THE MAKING OF O’MALLEY.”

One of tile finest characterisations Milton Sill§ has yet given on the screen. That is our opinion regarding “The 'Making of O'Malley,” which will he screened at the Empire Theatre to-night with Sills in the stellar role. Incidentally, it is the first time in his career that he has been officially “starred” in a moving picture and he amply supports by his performance tine wisdom of the iFirst National executives in starring him. Thrills, love interest, pathos, suspense, unusual dramatic situations, real comedy—all these are found in this picture. For genuine entertainment, which includes the proper amount of tears and laughter, “The Making of O’Malley”, is all that could be desired.

WEDNESDAY

“JIHE MONSTER

Lon Chaney, the pathetic clown of “■He Who Gets Slapped,” and leadingfigure of “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” and. “The Phantom of the Opera,” has the title role of the thrilling mystery melo-drama, “The Monster.” a Metro-Goldwyn picture. He plays the role of Dr. Ziska, a surgeon in charge of a crazy lunatic sanitarium. Although mystery thrill-drama, it has three comedians in its cast, the leader of whom is Johnny Arthur, who plays the hero. They provide much comedy.in contrast to the breath-tak-ing weirdness of many of the scenes. THURSDAY. “HELEN’S BABIES.” Statistics show that every fourth family in the. entire civilised world has read or is reading “Helen’s Babies.” a story by John Habberton. of which over 340 editions, each including a quarter of a million copies or more, have been published in America alone. Published forty years ago the hook is going just as strong to-day as the start it got at its inception. The best part of it is that “Helen’s Babies” is now in the pictures. And. still better is the fact that in the picture version, a Principal Pictures Master Production, that infant prodigy of the cinema, Baby Peggy, enacts the role of the babies. Although written nearly a half century ago every one who has seen the film .agrees that- it would seem that -Habberton had tailored the story to fit Baby Peggy in every respect.. Bti’t the author didn’t. He •couldn’t have, because Peggy Montgomery’s activities in this world reach in years just half a decade.