AMUSEMENTS, MEETINGS, ETC.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19367, 25 July 1925, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS, MEETINGS, ETC.

MUNICIPAL PICTURES DOUBLE FEATURE PROGRAMME The most thrilling picture of the year is “The Shooting of Dan McGrew,” the new screen version of the famous Robert W. Service poem made by Metro, which opened last night at the Opera House. Barbara La Mlarr was the lady known as Lou, and never has she appeared more beautiful nor so filled with dramatic fire as in this surging story of love in the Yukon. Lew Cody played Dangerous Dan McGrew, and ho made the character one of grim sternness and villainy. Percy Mannont appeared las Jim, the husband, and ho too seemed to be caught in the atmosphere of Service’s story, and got every i bit of tragic meaning into his acting. Mae Bush, as Lou’s friend, and George Seigmann, bs the Man, completed the stellar quintette—a really extraordinary cast. The Metro version of the poem goes back to the years before the killing in the Alaskan saloon, and shows the dnrly married life of Lou and Jim. The handling of the poem proves remarkably successful and made possible the inclusion of a number of thrills that kept last night’s audience on edge. The scene starting in the South Seh. Isles, moved to New York, and then shifted up to the Yukon, lending a variety of settings both beautiful and satisfying to the eye, and forming an ideal background for the dramatic ttile. The second feature “A Woman’s Secret.” is a Mae Marsh story depicted in her own inimitable artistry. From gay to grave, from impish fun to the greatest heights ’of intense drambtie, evolution, this j great star sweeps along, in a picture I full of romance and thrills, adventure | and intrigue. Tn addition there are good supporting pictures. The entire I programme will be repeated this evening. Special matinee to-day for the kiddies at 2.30. Box plans at H. T. Jones and Son’s, Ltd., till 10 o’clock, thereafter at Opera House. Phone 2324.