AMUSEMENTS, MEETINGS, ETC.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19772, 21 February 1927, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS, MEETINGS, ETC.

MUNICIPAL PICTURES Victorien Sardou’s famous success 11 Diplomacy’ l shows again to-night at the Opera House in the fnrm of a Paramount production directed by Marshall Neilan. The picture is heralded as a particularly absorbing story of political intrigue and features such popular players as Blanche Sweet, Neil Hamilton, Arlette Marchal, Matt Moore, Arthur E. Carewe and Earle Williams. The locale of the story is laid in Deauville, Monte Carlo, and other famous European, resorts. With the strong vein of mystery runs an attractive romance which numerous complications cause to become all the more absorbing. Players of all nationality are cast in the film, and although I the cast of players is a largo one, only three are United States born, the remainder coming from, such widely different countries as Armenia, France, Japan, Ireland, Russia and Austria. Box plans for reserves are obtainable at H. I. Jones and Son’s. RETURN OF MOSCOVTTCH. Playgoers who retain pleasant recollections of the previous visit to the Dominion some two years ago of Maurice Moscoviteh in “The Outsider” and other plays, will no doubt be pleased to hear of the return visit for one night only at the Opera House on Wednesday evening next. Since his last appearance here, Moscoviteh scored a big success in England, and in his recent return visits to Sydney and Melbourne and the Dominion in the powerful drama ‘‘The Fake,” by Frederick Lonsdale, author of “Aren’t We All” and “Spring Cleaning.” Mr Moscoviteh’s performance in “The Fake” as Geoffrey Sandos, philosopher and gallant gentleman, is among the greatest of his characterisations. The third act in particular moves quickly from comedy to tragedy, and the final exposure of the ‘fake’| is telling in its power. The acting of Nat Madison and Ken. Brendon in particular is brilliant. Indeed with Kerrie Kelly, Ellen Pollock, Eileen Sparks, George Blunt, Margaret Murray, Alex. Sarner, Reginald Newson, J. B. Atholwood, Leslie Donaghey, and others included in the cast the criterion production reaches the. highest J. C. Williamson standard.” The box plans open this (Monday) morning at H. I. Jones and Son’s.