ARCADIA PICTURES.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 28 June 1926, Page 7

ARCADIA PICTURES.

TO-NIGHT AND TUESDAY. “THE CALL OF COURAGE.” STARRING ART ACORD. Art Acord, who is being starred by Universal in “The’Call of Courage,” Blue Streak Western coming to the Arcadia Theatre on Monday and Tuesday, is a Western screen star who has lived in reality much of the life he is Sow portraying on the screen. Acord was born in l Stillwater, Oklahoma, and in his early days was a cowboy and then later a ranch owner in his own name. In 1911 he received an offer from the famous Buffalo Bill Wild West Show to join that organization, which he accepted and for several seasons appeared with that internationally famous body of cow-punch-ers. Leaving the Buffalo Bill outfit, Acord went into vaudeville and then into moving pictures. In the latter he was a success almost from the start until to-day he has an army of admirers who eagerly look forward to the pictures in which he is being starred. In “The Call of Courage,” which was directed by Cliff Smith, who has directed numerous successful Western picture plays, Acord plays the role of Steve Caldwell, a clean young Westerner who is a fugitive from justice, made so bv a charge o’ theft lodged against him by his cousin Caldwell has many thrilling 'adventures while eluding the sheriff’s posse that has taken the trail against him, none the less thrilling being the manner in which he meets June Hazeltfin, the character played by Clive Hasbrouck. From that with romance and comedy filling in time there is action in plenty between the thrills.

WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY, “THE TENTH WOMAN.” To be sure, flapper stories are not unusual; their actions seem to follow a certain formula of cigarette smoking, cocktail drinking, petting parties, and lip stick, but “The Tenth Woman,” the feature at the Arcadia Theatre next Wednesday and Thursday, presents’ an entirely different angle of the unconventional girl. It is about a married flapper, and perhaps that is where the difference comes in. Rose Ann is the tenth woman. While nine women out of ten would be certain to do one thing she would do the other. Her husband was never sure of what her actions would be for each day revealed a new surprise in Rose Ann’s character. Always craving excitement, yet never reacting in the same way twice, she was a veritable puzzle. The portrayal of Rose Ann Brainerd was entrusted to June Marlowe, the youngest and newest star on the screen, who has given us a characterisation sparkling with originality.

Beverly Bayne, who has recently returned to the screen, is a splendid Willa Brookers. Others in the cast are John Roche, Raymond McKee, Charles “Buddy” Post, Gilbert Holmes, Alec Francis and Edith Yorke.