AMUSEMENTS AND MEETINGS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19866, 14 June 1927, Page 9

AMUSEMENTS AND MEETINGS

HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE The final screening takes place tonight of the present programme showing at His Majesty’s Theatre. This programme gave immense satisfaction to the audience of Saturday and Monday nights. “The Ice Flood’,” featuring Kenneth Harlan and Viola Dana, is a very gripping picture and the climax of the great ice breakaway is the finest ever caught by a camera. “Steele of the Royal Mounted” is an Oliver Curwood story and his stories are tfiways dependable and sure of full entertainment value. The men of the Royal Mounted- are notorious for the fact that they always get their man. For the “Music Masters,” Listz is the master who supplies the theme to-night. To-morrow Night “The Miracle of the Wolves” (a French production) and' # “The Boy Friend,” a Metro-Goldwyn comedy, are the main items showing to-morrow night. “The Winning of Barbara Worth” *

Samuel Golidwyn, whose fondness for best selling novels as preferred subjects for big films dates back to his pioneer film-making days, has done it again. The maker of “Stella Dallas” now presents “The Winning of Barbara Worth,” a Henry King production based on the Harold Bell Wright best selling novel which sokl into two mil lion copies. The film comes to His Majesty’s Theatre on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of next week. The producers of the film, which boasts of Vilma Banky in the Barbara Worth role and Ronald Colman as the Eastern engineer, Willard Holmes, estimate that ten million people have already read the novel. There were, first of all, the two million purchasers of the original Wright two dollar book. Then additional millions read the serialisation of that novel in more than one hundred newspapers in the United States alone. And* now, synchronised with release of “The Winning of Barbara Worth” by United Artists Corporation comes the popular-priced A. L. Burt Co. photoplay edition, with more thousands reading the Wright story. Samuel Goldwyn was so anxious to have the benefit of the ten million readers of Harold Bell Wright’s tale that he paid, acording to his own admission, 125,000 dollars for the screen rights to “The Winning of Barbara Worth.”

THE GRAND “The Lunatic at Large,” First National’s comedy featuring Loon Errol, will be screened again at the matinee ana* final evening screening to-night. In this picture the comedy situations revolve around Sam Smith who has been tricked into a lunatic asylum where he meets the Napoleons, the cow boys and all the other convulsing inmates of the place, among them being Bill Carroll as sane as Sam, who like himself, has been put into the madhouse by trickery. Bill’s twin brother, mentally demented, wants to get him cut of the way so he can marry the bewitching blonde, portrayed by Dorothy Maekaiil. How Sam escapes and breaks into the Collier home as a masked' ball is going on, hides in a suit of armour, climbs aboard a dirigible in time to stop a wedding betwen the girl and the “nut”; jumps off with her in his arms and floats to earth on a para chute, forms the plot for one of the funniest films seen ei< the screen for some time. The supporting pictures include “White Thunder,” a thrilling Western mystery drama; comedy and Gazette. To-morrow evening another big double attraction featuring H. B. Warner in “Silence,” Patsy Ruth Mil ler and Matt Moore in “Fools in the Dark,” and in addition two very interesting pictures showing modern motor assembly at the works of the General Motors (New Zealand) Ltd., Petonc. and the local picture of “The Chevrolet Picnic,” recently held at Wanganui and organised by the local firm of H. S. Harman, Ltd. The play for reserved seats is open daily at the Grand Theatre office.

MUNICIPAL THEATRE Owing to other engagements, no pic utres will appear at the Opera House until Thursday, when a strong ftature —“Paradise for Two” with Richard Dix in the lead —will be screened. Sup I ports include a fine J- C. Williamson i vaudeville turn. HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY The annual meeting of the above will be held to-morrow (Wednesday) at 7.30 p in., in Messrs Duigan and Co. ’s rooms. Ridgway Street. All members and intending members arc requested to attend. MOSSTON SCHOOL CONCERT To augment the Mosston School piano fund, a concert has been organised, and will be held in the school to-morrow evening at 8 o’clock. An attractive programme of musical and vocal items has been arranged by Madame Ivo Symes and considerable interest is being shown in the event.