AMUSEMENTS, MEETINGS, ETC.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19366, 24 July 1925, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS, MEETINGS, ETC.

MUNICIPAL PICTURES. DOUBLE FEATURE PROGRAMME. Telling the whole story connected with 1 ‘The Shooting of Dan McGrew,’’ a Metro picture, will be the star attraction at the Opera House this evening. As a result of a popular vote, Barbara La Marr, Lew Cody and Percy Marmont, were chosen to play the famous roles of The Lady Known as Lou, Dangerous Dan McGrew and The Stranger. These players are supplemented by a cast that included Mae Busch, George Seigmann, Max Ascher, Philippe de Lacey, and many others. Robert W. Service’s story of the Yukon has been brought to the screen with life-like vividness by Director Clarence Badger. Not only has the splendid climax been faithfully reproduced. but the events leading up to it have been worked out in full. Service wrote his poem from an actual incident of the gold rush in the Yukon, and the Metro picturisation has* gone a step further and told the whole of this tragic encounter between two men. The early married life of Iwu and Jim is shown—their happiness and contentment while appearing as dancer and musician in South Sea Island ports, and the first rumblings of disaster at the introduction of Dan McGrew. Later the story shifts to New York, and finally to the Yukon. The second feature “A Woman’s Secret,” is a Mac Marsh story depicted in her own inimitable artistry. From gay to grave, from impish fun to lhe greatest heights of intense dramatic evolution, this great star sweeps along, in a picture full of romance and thrills, adventure 'ami intrigue. Bo wise and book your seat at Messrs H. I. Jones and Son’s Ltd.