AMUSEMENTS

Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1929, 2 November 1926, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS

TUESDAY. Admirers of Lewis Stone, acknowkliged as one of tihe most -consummate actors on the stiver sheet, find in his present characterisation a concentration of the reail Stone finesse and suavity, with a new admixture of the fire and vigor so necessary in 'the portrayal of the forceful, dominant personality created by Henry Kitchell Webste/r in his novel "Joseph Greer and His Daughter," from which the play is adapted. No less an attraction is the dainty and vdvacious Shirlley Mason , who plays the roie of 'Stone's daughter in tier usual finished manner. Others in the unusual'iy fine cast an© Barbara Bedford, Daviid .Torrenoa, J. Patrick and other well-known screen players. "What Foo'is Men" is showing at the Empire Theatre to-night. WEDNESDAY. For more reasons than one is "Mike" a production, remarkable, and muclh above thie .level of the usual screen offering. Its very name, "Mtke," breathes ol! its free comedy possibilities. It is the latest production from Marshall Neilan, the brilliant director whose pictures lhave become a standard of the movie world. It was Neilan who made "Dinty," "Minnie," "Go and Get It," and "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm." One other feature) is that "Mike," is the film in which Sally O'Neil, the new sensation of t!he silver-sheet, makes her debut before Australiasiau audiences, although she has been a screen idol for many months. She promises to be the 'screen's foremost comedienne, and .combines a beautiful face and figure wiuh an.intriguing personality. This film comes to tana Empire Theatre on Wednesday evening. THURSDAY. "Reveille" cannot be explained in conventional terms of film entertainment, because lit neither follows the ordinary formula of film drama nor comedy. Indeed, it has no film plot at all—it is >a vivid impression of life itself, elemental. I'ife in London, or in any town in Britain n the year 191 S arJi 1923. A year of War and a year of iPeaoe—wlhat strange happenings, what 'joys and sorrows, what excitement, turmoil, artificialities, pretence and disillusion. Strange contrasts — hectic gaiety in Ltondon—death in Filarjisips; the riotous seven days' leave, and an elderly jinother's only lullaby, "Rock me to Sleep, Mother"; the mafficking of Armistice night, and a War Office telegram; " a {land fit for hero-es," and processions of unemployed,'l9lß and 1923 A-A year of War and a ydar of Peace—the most poignant drama of all time—that is "Reveille."