AMUSEMENTS AND MEETINGS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19868, 16 June 1927, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS AND MEETINGS

MUNICIPAL THEATRE. Popular Richard Dix shows at the Opera House to-night, to-morrow and on Saturday, in a special Paramount production, “ Paradise for Two.” As an excellent supporting item is the musical turn of the Eton College Boy, who has had an extraordinary run of success in Auckland. 1 ‘Paradise for Two,” Richard Dix’s newest comedy-drama, directed by Gregory La Cava, comes with a strong reputation. Dix has an especially strong supporting cast in this picture. Betty Bronson is featured as Sally Lane, the pretty little “stage-struck” girl who poses as his wife to help him collect a legacy of which his Uncle Howard (Edmund Breese) is the trustee. Andre Beranger as Maurice, the theatrical producer, lives up to his reputation of comediande luxe. The picture was adapted from a noriginal story written especially for the screen by Howard Emmett Rogers. On Alonday, Harold Lloyd comes to bring happiness to Wanganui people in his newest production, “For Heaven’s Sake,” a Paramount release. Harold Lloyd is said to be the most consistent comedy star on the screen. Lloyd has given the world hit afteT hit with his clock-iike regularity. Ho reaches the climax of his career with “For Heaven’s Sake.” It is a riot of merriment. Vigorous laughs are dominant all through “For Heaven’s Sake,” which is the story of a carefree, rich man’s son who lives a life of ease only to discover that life is worth more to him by helping others. Reserves for these excellent programmes are obtainable at H. I. Jones and Son’s.

HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE There shows at His Majesty’s Theatre to-night a double star programme described as one that appeals to every emotion possible to a human being. For pleasant comedy situations with settings of great brilliance, “The Boy Friend” provides an hour of rollicking enjoyment, being a merry madcap tale of young hearts and young blood. A delicious cocktail made with the wine of youth. A merrily moving story of boy friends and girl friends and their happy hours together, featuring Marceline Day and Johhny Harron “The Miracle of the Wolves” is an intensely moving drama which transports the modern spectators into the pulsating emotions of 500 years ago. The glamour of the days of knightly chivalry —the tortuous diplomacy of medieval Kings—passions, naked and unashamed, the fierce ardour of embattled hosts, the urge of combat, the dare-devil recklessness of gallant warriors, the ebb and flow of medieval life—above all, an epic of undying love empictured gloriously in “The Miracle of the Wolves.” It is a French pic- I ture with an all French east. The programme commences at 7.45 nightly. “The Winning of Barbara Worth’’ Samuel Goldwyn, 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 sold into two million 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, according to his own admission, J 25,000 dol- ■ lars’for the screen rights to “The Win- ■ ning of Barbara Worth.” THE GRAND. Packed with thrills and appealing scenes, “Silence,” featuring Vera Reynolds, H. B. Warner, Raymond Hatton, Rockliffe Followes, Jack Mulhall, and Virginia Pearson, was heartily received by a delighted audience at the Grand Theatre last night. This picturisation by Rupert Julian of the stage success in which Air Warner was the star, is one of the strongest film versions of a successful play seen in many months.

The story deals with a gentleman crook’s love for a daughter who was unaware of his existence. When a crime is unwittingly committed by her, to save her, he shoulders responsibility for a murder, and is sentenced to death. He refuses to tell the truth even though death on the gallows awaits him, because he dared not incriminate his child. Then follows a sensational and thrilling climax which holds the spectator as by a spell. “Silence” is, indeed, a remarkable photoplay. The work of the featured players, notably that of AHss* Reynolds, who has a dual role, Mr Warner, and Raymond Hatton, ig highly artistic. If you care for thrills red-hot from the grill ,you cannot well afford to miss this tremendous photo-play. The supporting pictures include “Fools in the Dark,” featuring Patsy Ruth Miller and Matt Moore, a picture full of spooky mystery and funny comedy situations. An added attraction on the programme are two tip-top industrial pictures showing modern motor assembly at the General Alotor Company’s big plant at Petone. Every branch of the making of a car from the frame to the finished article being shown. The Chevrolet Picnic is also of great interest to local motorists.