AMUSEMENTS AND MEETINGS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20124, 18 April 1928, Page 11

AMUSEMENTS AND MEETINGS

THE MAJESTIC. The programme to be presented at The Majestic Theatre commencing to<ay, gives promise of being one of thebest yet presented in Wanganui. The main feature of course is ‘ ‘ The Missing Link,’’ which features the famous Syd. Chaplin, brother of the world renowned Charlie. It is said that in this extravaganza Syd. settles his comedy crown even more securely upon his head. “The Missing Link” is a riot. The picture has the distinction of being utterly devoid of any subtlety; nothing is suggested; everything is shouted; each laugh is pounded home with the same lusty, red-blooded vehemence with which “Akka” the famous monkey, who appeared here sonic weeks ago, slams the unproteted dome of his “brothr. ’’ Aside from the roaring farce of the production, the picture is said to be notable for Chaplin’s pantomime in several sequences, and for the uncanny and develish. intelligence of ‘ ‘ Akka. ’ ’ Norma Shearer ’s latest production “The Demi-Bibde ' ’ is the supporting feature. Briefly, the story revolves around a French miss who leaves a secluded school to fall in love with the most popular man in Paris. How she shows him that heart-breaking is not the sole perogative of the male sex, how he falls in love with her, and then finds his care-free past rising to baffle him, is told in a bright and breezy fashion that will captivate everyone. Carmel Myers, Dorothy Sebastian, Tenon Holtz and Lionel Barrymore also appear in this frothy story of wedding bells and what happened afterwards.

DUCHESS THEATRE, ARAMOHO The special attraction screening at t.he Duchess Theatre to-morrow (Thursday) night will bo “ Resurrection/’ featuring Rod la Rocque and Dolores del Rio. Patrons are advised to book early to save disappointment. WANGANUI HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. The Autumn Chrysanthemum Show, the first of the Diamond Jubilee shows to be hol'd* during 1928 (Jubilee Year) will be held in the new museum building, Maria Place, on Thursday and Friday, April 26 and 27. Arrangements ate well in hand and the show promises to be the largest and most successful of its kind ever held in New Zealand. Exhibitors are reminded that all entries close with the Hon. Secretary, Mr ,V. B. Willis, on Monday April 23.