AMUSEMENTS AND MEETINGS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19828, 30 April 1927, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS AND MEETINGS

HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRF. j Captain Frank Hurley, so well-known with his “ Pearls and Savages” pic-1 ture will present a picture to-night | (only) entitled, “Tho Junglo Woman, a drama of Papua, taken there. All the ■ ingredients that go to make up superb j and enthralling entertainment are; found in “The Jungle Woman.” Taken ! from a point of view of photography ■ aione, it is a wonderful screen achieve- I ment, the tropical forests of Dutch I New Guinea being the actual locale for j the filming of the gripping scenes that i show two young Englishmen grappling I with dangers and hardships innumer- • able in their search for gold. The many • scenes showing canoes shooting down i the tropical stream to the. rapids ami l the long train of natives pushing their way with provisions and supplies behind tho dauntless adventurers, lends a wealth of colour and atmosphere to the picture that makes it one of the most realistic screen documents seen for some time. A man, a horse and a dog arc the three actors who make Art Acord’s latest starring vehicle, excellent entertainment. The picture, “Sky High Corral,” a Universal-Blue Streak Western, will be the supporting feature. Aiding Art Acord in his fast moving Western thriller are his two pals, 1 his horse, Raven, and his dog, Bex. A gazette and cartoon complete a fine evening’s entertainment. “The Big Parade.” . “The Big Parade,” Metro-Goldw'yn- ; Mayer’s epic in twelve reels, which will commence at His Majesty’s ' Theatre on Monday ,has afforded John ■ Gilbert, Rene Adoree, Karl Dane and Tom O’Brien opportunities of showing ■ dramatic work of artistic excellence. ■ The success of the picture in England ‘ is phenomenal. Of it The Manchester : Guardian wrote: —“In the number of i 1 war pictures that the last three years i have brought, ‘The Big Parade’ stands I i alone. The war theme has not been . grafted on to the story of ‘The Big ’ Parade’ in a pander to excitement, nor < introduced for the taking-off of an : awkard husband,- or lover. The war ; theme, the sad, glorious war theme is ; the whole matter of the film. There • is a love affair of the billets and a humour of the trenches. And all along • the action is marching left-left to that ■ ultimate glory that the bugles promise ‘; and simple men have died to find. • ‘The Big Parade’ if only for the splendid climax that rounds off the first part wth the long remorseless snake of waggons rollng along the dusty road, rolling and rolling away into the distance and still more at hand and more, 1 and then the aeroplanes winging fromi] over our heads, shooting and skimming H off above the w’aggon train, three at < first, then a dozen, then a full flight p like swallows in autumn, must take its ji place among the beautiful things that ij war has suggested to many a musician ; 1 and poet and dramatist since Homer ■ sang.” The fame of the picture has j preceded it, and spirited booking has set in at Upton’s. The presentation is preceded at 8 sharp by an atmospheric prologue entitled, “A Dream of the Big Parade.” , _ 1 I