AMUSEMENTS, MEETINGS, ETC.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19767, 15 February 1927, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS, MEETINGS, ETC.

HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE The final screening of “Bed Hot Tyres,” a comedy-drama featuring Monty Blue and Patsy Ruth Miller, will be given to-night. Everyone who likes a rapid pace in screen entertainment should see this. “Out of the Storm” is tho supporting feature land stars Jacqueline Logan and Edmund Burns. A gazette and cartoon are also included. “THE BAT” ‘The Bat” is one sensation after tanother, with no solution until the moment the story gives its secret up. There are attempted murders and sudden encounters on every floor of the seemingly haunted mansion, and its spooky garrets are filled with bales of money. There is a hysterical slavey who jumps at every shadow that crosses the wall, tind a comedy detective who butts in to add complications. There is the shuddery, expectant, and destructive atmosphere of unexplained doings, with a dozen people under suspicion all at once. Romance shines undefeated throughout all the troublesome plots and counter plots. In support is “The Barrier ” By Rex Beach, and little Jackie Clark, the Australian prodigy, aged eight, in impersonations, song and dance. THE GRAND Ailcen Pringle, Lowell Sherman and Chester Conklin carry off the acting honours iu “The Wilderness W’oiuan,” which opened yesterday at the Grand Theatre for a three-days’ session. The picture offers Miss Pringle her first opportunity to break away from the queen and vampire type of role with which she has been associated in the past, and to reveal a talent for comedy. As the Alaskan miner’s daughter, uncouth and unversed in the ways of society, or even of modern society, who comes into violent contact with the conventions in New York City, ishe presents a figure at once amusing and appealing. Lowell Sherman appears as the hero, while others who appear in the cast arc Henry Vibart and Robert Cain. The supports will include Tom Tyler and his three pals—the kid, the horse, and the dog—in “Wyoming Wild Cat,” an outdoor picture full of comedy and romance. In this picture platrons are provided with a treat in the magnificent scenes in New York which are introduced in a motor drive through the busiest parts of the great city.

MUNICIPAL PICTURES California boasts of a wide variety of scenery but it failed to produce African jungles in sufficient quantity to supply the demand for Douglas MacLean ’s latest Paramount comedy, “Hold That Lion.” Since it was impractical for the comedian to go to the Dark Continent for* the rea] thing, several square miles of imitation Africa were constructed at the studio Und local colour was supplied by a large family of lions, several chimpanzees and twelve or so negroes. “Hold That Lion” shows at the OpeiU House to-morrow night in conjunction with an excellent feature “Who is the Man?” Douglas Mac Lean’s newest success is an exhilarating and entertertaining comedy. Reserves are obtainable at H. I. Jones and Son’s.