AMUSEMENTS, MEETINGS, ETC.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19364, 22 July 1925, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS, MEETINGS, ETC.

THE GRAND “DOCTOR NYE,” J. C. LINCOLN’S NOVEL In Thomas H. Ince’s “Idle Tongues” from the novel “Doctor Nye,” now at the Grand Theatre, Director Lambert Hillycr needed two hundred Massachusetts villagers. The picture was not made in the Cape Cod country, but in California. Andrew Culp, casting director at the Ince studios, delivered the order, as those who have seen the picture can testify. In the town meeting scenes there are tall folks and fat ones, young and tali, slim and short. But they all fit into the “atmosphere” of the picture. They are the people whom Joseph C. Lincoln, author of the novel, created in his Cape Cod stories. Plain country folk, all of them, intense in their likes and dislikes, sure that Doctor Nye has treated them unjustly, and bent on vengeance when aroused This is the screen picture seen in “Idle Tongues,” and one that carries all the colour and romance of Lincoln’s Now England stories. There ar? other striking episodes in the story, too. The mob scone, the auto wreck, the country picnic and other scenes contribute to the interext ->f the story, and in all of these th? extra people take part —Californians transformed into Massachusetts villagers for the time being. Percy Marmont, Doris Kenyon, Claude Gillingwater, David Torrence., | Lucille Ricksen, Malcolm McGregor, Vivia Ogden, Ruby Lafayette and Mark Hamilton make up the cast. To--night will be the final screening. It is I a really good production; don’t miss it. (The plan is at The Grand Theatre office.

The concert given in St. Paul’s Hall last evening in aid of the Garrison Band funds was in every way a great success.