MUNICIPAL PICTURES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20190, 5 July 1928, Page 3

MUNICIPAL PICTURES

How to free the man one loves from a loveless betrothal of seventeen years standing is shown in “Get Your Man,” Paramount’s latest starring vehicle for Clara Bow, which will be shown at the Opera House to-night, and finally tomorrow night. In tho picture Clara is a young American girl who has fallen in love with a French youth, Charles Rogers, who was engaged to another girl when five years of age, under the French custom in which parents choose the mates of their children. The efforts of Miss Bow to cause the breaking off of thia engagement, supply many of the clever situations with which the picture abounds. The plot carries one into a waxworks museum, where the boy ar?, girl fail to exit at the closing hour, and are forced to spend the night together in a room surrounded by mechanical figures which walk, wave their arms, roll their eyes, brandish swords and even execute murders. Miss Bow is surrounded by a capable cast, including, besides Rogers, who last appeared with her in “Wings,” Josef Swickard, Josephine Dunn and Harvey Clarke. A film of almost universal interest is “Firestone” a romance of the rubber trade, which will also be shown tonight. As the name implies the picture was taken for the Firestone Rubber Company and is a history of the tyre industry from the planting of trees in Siberia to tne selling of the finished article in America. The picture shows the native life of West Africa; the roads and waterways of Liberia 1 It shows the rubber trees being planted and full grown trees biing tapped or “milked.” Streams of chattering and grinning natives carry the liquid to the storehouses where it is washed, rolled, cured and smoked and then dispatched to warehouses at Hong Kong and Singapore. It illustrates through all its filth and insanitary conditions the wealth, beauty and romance of the sunny East. And so the watcher is carried on to see the manufacture of tyres to the final process of wrapping and dispatching to the agents. Saturday’s attraction is a rerevival of an old favourite, “Tillie’s Punctured Romance.”