AMUSEMENTS, MEETINGS, ETC.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18162, 26 April 1921, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS, MEETINGS, ETC.

PARAMOUNT MUNICIPAL PICTURES. TO-MORROW AFTERNOON AND EVENING. “The Sea Wolf,” Jack London's amazing book, has been filmed, and will be shown by Paramounts at the Opera House to-morrow at a specnal matinee, and again in the evening. It has more than a vivid visualisation of the crowning success of this author’s masterpieces, full of astound ing incidents, notably, a big liner smashing through a crowded ferryboat; the stirring struggle with fog and storm at sea; the mutiny on the “Ghost” and the mad battle of sailors; Wolf's fateful fight with his brother “Death;” and the duel in the ship’s cabin, with a girl as the prize. The creed of the Wolf was this: “We kill animals without compunction; why not kill human animals?” And he lived up to his creed. It is the amazing story of a man who was a beast and of a beast who was a man, and both contained in,the one human shell. London was perhaps the greatest adventurer in history. He was born with the lust for adventuring and fighting in his blood, and his call carried him from the Arctic wastes to the exotic isles of the South Seas. And always did he tell of his adventures. In his little schooner “The Snark” he cruised the seven seas, meeting and beating many types of men, but always retaining his impression of them on paper. Thus he has given us “The Sea Wolf,” an amazingly brutal man in London’s story, but a fiend incarnate when transferred to the screen. Played by Noah Beery, this interpretation is something that will live in the mind for all time, while the supporting cast, which includes Tom Forman, Mabel Julienne Scott, and Raymond Hatton, help complete a reproduction that worthily bears the imprint of a Paramount-Artcraft Royalty Masterpiece. The box plan is open at H. I. Jones and Sons’, and patrons would be well advised to. book at once. Election results will be shown at the evening session.