AMUSEMENTS. MEETINGS, ETC

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19049, 30 June 1924, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS. MEETINGS, ETC

HIS MAJESTY’S The programme now showing at His Majesty’s was appreciated by a good audience on Saturday night. So great was the clamour for seats that many were turned away, all seats having been sold. The programme consists of two powerful features “The Wanters” and “Woman’s Hate.” Society snobs who consider themselves of finer clay than the average run of mortals are receiving a good drubbing this week at His Majesty’s Theatre, where “The Wanters,” with Marie Prevost Robert Ellis, and an all star east, is the Louis B. Mayer-First National screen attraction. The success of this picture would indicate that it is the concensus of opinion that they deserve it. Alice Lake’s latest picture, “Woman’s Hate,” a. Maxwell Karger production for Metro, adapted to the screen by June Afathis from a story by Wadsworth Camp, is a photoplay of unusual interest, for it is a drama containing all the elements which make for popularity and yet whifch does riot put too great a strain on credulity. 11 Woman’s Hate” is the story of a struggle of a pretty little show girl to save the life rif a man falsely accused of murder. Having evidence which proves the man’s innocence, she is nevertheless unable to use it, because of a promise to the murdered man. However, through a series of developments which it would be unkind to reveal to those who will see the picture, the apparent deadlock is broken and the little heroine finds her happiness. Supporting Miss Lake are Conrad Nagel, Harry Northrup, Charles Clary and John Ince. There is a very excellent comedy on this programme entitled “False Alarm.” “THE VIRGINIAN.” COMMENCING WEDNESDAY. The greatest of all Western stories will be shown in picture form at His Majesty’s on Wednesday. Kenneth Harlan as “The Virginian” has been ideally chosen, and Florence Vidor gives the finest characterisation of her career in the role of Molly, the little school teacher from Vermont. Russell Simpson is a vicious looking and convincing villain, playing the role) of Trampas, the cattle-thief. Raymond Hatton, one of the finest character actors on the screen, supplies much of the comedy in the role of Shorty. Then there is Nat O’Malley as the renegade Steve, whose cattlestealing forces his best friend to order his execution. The picture starts with' a thrill—the rescue of Molly from the over-thrown stage-coach by the Virginian—and piles drama upon drama, s tuation upon situation, working vpj to cue of the mightiest climaxes ever screened. Tears and laughter alternate in quick succession. One comes away from the showing of “The Virginian” with the realisation that the screen has achieved a genuine masterpiece.