PLAZA THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 29, 4 February 1935, Page 12

PLAZA THEATRE

“LILIES OF THE FIELD.” r •‘Lilies of the Field,” now showing at the Plaza, reintroduces Miss Winifred Shorter, so well known to Wanganui cinema patrons for her work ia films with Tom Walls and Ralph Lynn. Miss Shot ter is, for the most part, in a simple and demure role, at which she excels. Her technical equipment is excellently Mii.Vnl to the task of arousing humour and a curious sort of sympathy for the all too ridiculous character she creates on the scree.. When Miss Shotlcr was first aeon in Wanganui she captivated all hearts with her interpretation of the i»hy, immature little maid. Probably she owned the most winsome smile on lhe screen. Hui now that she has found her rightful place at the head of the casit. it seems a p’ty if her employers are going to ask her to play in bright jingling parts. to which she is naturally not suited. It is pleasing to be able to say that apprehensions, raised by a deviation of Miss Shotter from simplicity that is all too rare to common and discordant coquetry in “Lilies of the Field,” are quelled in a moment; but it is unfortunate that they should have cause to arise. The The lilies mentioned in the title of the film were human. They were the twin daughters of a country parson in England and all they lived for was the day when they should lie able to see London. Betty (Winifred Shotter) got to the great city of lights through a trick. She heard from her father that & collector of antiques was td visit the manse, and she overheard from her modern grandmother that the twin which most impressed the collector would have a trip to London as a birthday present. Betfy dressed and posed as a Victorian miss, and was cajried off to London where she creaft-ed a furore in society by her “new fashions.” Men began to grow side whiskers and women to wear hoops; the fashi/jn papers were full of it. But then the Rev. John Beverly could allow the-deceit to go on no longer. He went tn Ixindon. determined t* expose his daughter as an insincere masquerader. The result was inevitable. Betty married the antique collector, and Kitty, her sister, married someone or other, too. A feature of the supporting pro gramme shows scenes of the funeral of the late Archbishop Bed wood, who died recently at Wellington. Excel lent photographs have been secured of the scenes showing the tributes of respect paid to a man who was loved and respected by all who knew him. It is a picture that must not bo missed.