AMUSEMENTS

Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1780, 8 July 1926, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS

TO-NIGHT. "HELEN'S BABIES." In "Helen's Babies," appearing at ■the Empire Theatre to-night Baby Peggy, who is starred in this Master iPicture, juslt reverses studio ethics. She is just her own self since the part she plays is that of "Toddie" and, as Toddie- is a genuine fun-loving and affectionate youngster, the reason *s quite obvious. SATURDAY. "WRECKAGE" There is enough thrilling action in the Banner production, '.'Wreckage" which opens at the Emgire Theatre on Saturday, to supply two. or three average pictures. And yet, the wealth of movement d'oesjiot crowd out the plot, or overshadow the beauty of really artistic photography. The great scene presents the Pacific in anger with a vessel going down. This sholt is one of the 'finest ever caught by a" camera. In order to make it, Ben Verschleiser, the producer, and Scott iDunlap, the director, took the ■entire cast into the Pacific on a small vacht fitted out to represent a liner. They sailed in the teeith of an ugly gale. The result is realism of a most thrilling kind. May Allison and Holmes Herbert, the principals .caught in a small lifeboat, were thrown into the sea when the craft capsized. They nearly died before the bland) crew of a Zlpanese 'fishing smack picked them up The story describes the affairs of a girl whose father is suspected of gem smuggling, a bogus count who is the guilty party, another girl for the jealous atmosphere and a clean-cut American. The picture is an adaptation from the novel "iSalvage," by Tzola Forrester, author of "The White •Moth" and "A 'Cafe in Cairo." "Salvage" was rated as her best work and Banner has certainly succeeded in making it into a first rate picture.