AMUSEMENTS

Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1784, 20 July 1926, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS

•' THE RENDEZVOUS." From the dramatic point of view the picture is one of the best that MarsliM.il Nei'lan has made. In technique and In photography andi in lighting effects it is unusual and compelling. The picture, which -will be screened at f he Empire Theatre to-night, also contains players of world-wide prominence, am! Conrad Xagel, in the role of an American officer, plays his first part in the Goldwyn pictures, and has one that exactly suits him. Lucille Ricksen has in " The Rendezvous " her first grownup role., and, makes it very appealing. The picture is worthy of a crowded hou'se. " CONFESSIONS OF A QUEEN." . The above is the title of the forthcoming picture at the Empire Theatre to-morrow night, and natujrally makes one wonder: "What can a queen confess?" Many things, if what the history books tell us is correct. But the confessions made by Alice Terry as the qu'een in this sparkling dramatic romance are hardly the isort one would expect. The s/übject of her confession is 'Lewis Stone, one of the most talented of all screen actors, and Miss Terry's- co-star in " The Prisoner of Zenda." "WHAT A WIFE LEARNED." The age-old antagonism between the city and the open—'between cultivation and primitive force—brings about a ■stirring conflict in "What a Wife Learned," a drama of American life to he screened at the Empire Theatrs on Thursday evening. There is the modern woman, passionately devoted to her husband, but a thrill with desire for the career that the publication of a successful novel brings. Her husband,, a virile westerner, does not understand why all her 'self-expression should not centre in him.