AMUSEMENTS, MEETINGS, ETC.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19009, 9 May 1924, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS, MEETINGS, ETC.

MUNICIPAL PICTURES “TURN TO THE RIGHT." The Paramount picture, “Turn to the Right.” which was shown to a ’ bumper audience at the Opera House last evening, will be screened tor the last time to-night. The attraction is an appealing comedy-drama, which depicts American life a« no otner production has evw done. The price of 500.000 paid for “Turn to rue icignt" is three and a-half times the largest sum expended previously for any dramatic story for pictures; ttiat or r/5, 000 dollars given by D. W. Griffith for “Way Down East,” being next. “SALOMY JANE.” Saturday’s principal attraction, “Salomy Jane,” is the story of the early days in the West, and a girl’s fight for lovo and honour. Muriel Flynn, a screen favourite, plays the part of the man in this gripping drama. The man is accused of holding up the stage-coach and is about to bo led away to be hanged by tne Vigilantes, when Salomy Jane, moved by a strange impulse, kissas him goodbye. Red Pete, proven to be one of the hold-up men, i g hanged, but the stranger escapes. On returning to thank Salomy for her kindness,, he [meets an old enemy, Baldwin. In the fight., Baldwin is shot from ambush by another man. Salomy lends the stranger s ome of her father’s clothes that he may get out of the country. This leads Larabee, an enemy of her father's to shoot at the stranger. Larabee is killed by a. bullet from Che stranger’s rifle. A s ha dies, he confesses that Baldwin, now dead, was Red Pete’s Partner in the stagecoach robbery. The action is swift from start to finish. The supporting cast is excellent and includes such favourites as Charles Ogle, Louise Dresser, James Neill and Clarence Burton. Box plan at H. I. Jones and Son’s.