AMUSEMENTS, MEETINGS, ETC.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19732, 29 December 1926, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS, MEETINGS, ETC.

IDS MAJESTY’S THEATRE “HER BIG NIGHT’’ AND “TIME THE COMEDIAN.’’ Two star features show at His Majesty’s Theatre to-night, the main feature being “Her Big Night.’’ The picture is a farce comedy, produced by Universal Pictures Corporation, under the direction of Melville Brown, and is said to afford the pretty, blonde comedienne the best role in her brief but brilliant career before the camera. The story, based on Peggy Gaddis ’ “Doubling For Daphne,’’ deals in a way, with the movie industry, and is concerned mainly with the somewhat embarrassing failure of a movie star to show up for a personal which has been arranged for her at, a theatre in connection with the premier of her latest picture. In the efforts of the star's producer and press agent to cover up her indiscreet disappearance in order to keep the matter out of the newspapers, a dozen involved comedv situations arise.

The cast supporting Miss La Planto is an unusually large and brilliant one. Einar Hansen, one of the foremost screen stars of Europe, plays his first Ajmorictin part opposite the comedienne. Such facile comedians, as Mack Swain, Lee Morgan, Zasu Pitts, Nat Carr, 'William Austin and others add many deep laughs to the picture. John Roche plays the role of a super-jealous husband and Cissy Fitzgerald as an equally suspicious wife. “Time The Comedian” is the supporting feature. Time is pictured as the grim comedian of life, twisting the destinies of mortals as a jester might play with puppets.. An extraordinarily beautiful young wife is shown fighting a demon of discontent that threatens her life and happiness, but she finally gives way and seeks solace with her husband’s friend. Lew Cody, Mae Busch, Gertrude Olmsted, and Creighton Hale fill the principal roles, and give superb performances. MUNICIPAL PICTURES SPECIAL PRODUCTIONS TO-NIGHT The two features at the Opera House to-night, commencing a season of three nights, form a programme quite equal, as regards entertainment, to any programme shown in Wanganui for some months. The first film, “Phantom Justice,’’ is a vivid story, thoroughly entertaining, with d moral behind the general quality of the production. The. story tells of a young criminal lawyer who so loses his sense of duty that he becomes the tool of a body of city gangsters. In keeping them from punishment, the young lawyer ultimately falls victim to his own cleverness. The excellent cast is headed by Rod la Rocque and Estelle Taylor. As an excellent supporting feature is “The Lawful Cheater” with piquant Clara Bow and. Raymond Ale Keo playing lead. “The Lawful Cheater” is an action romance which gives full scope to the vivacity of Clara Bow, who is well-known to Wanganui patrons for her performance in “The Plastic Age.” Her new production is the story of a small-town girl who comes to New York and becomes mistress of a city mansion. It is a charming story of city life, completely strange, to the untutored country girl, and has pathos, humour and excitement freely intermixed. Reserves are available at H. I. Jones and Son’s

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