ARCADIA PICTURES

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 28 December 1926, Page 6

ARCADIA PICTURES

TO-NIGHT (LAST TIB| LAURA LA PLANTE B “HER BIG NIGHT. Lanta La Plante has W ‘ real motion picture star. Her popularity has beam, great among film fans of the j ; during the past two years th# Universal company has decided she has earned the right to ju “star” class. Her first real starring rde. first of a series of such pictu comes to the Arcadia theatre j day and Tuesday when Her Night ' start? its engagement k As most of her pictures I been, “Her Big Night” is J comedy, and provides a role 1 well suited to the talent of pretty, blonde copiedienne. With the exception of “Thel night Sun,” the big sup) production in which she played lead, Miss La Plante has 1 nothing but light comedy rob the past two years. She played posite Reginald Denny in i tier's Dress Suit,” and shared! ors> with Edward Everett il« in “Poker Faces. ’ She established her ability! comedienne in her earlier pidl including “The Teaser,'’ with O'Malley, “Dangerous Inn«a with Eugene O'Brien, and 1 Fast Worker” with Denny. Little more than two years i Miss La Plante was virtually known to the screen. She str her picture career with leads comedies and westerns. “Her Big Night” was directed i Melville Brown, from his own d tation of Peggy Gaddis’ magu story, 'Doubling for Daphne.'l cast supporting Miss La Plantei eludes Einar Hansen, Tully Ik all, Zasu Pitts, .Mack Swain, J Moran, John Roche, Cissy Fit? aid, Nat Carr, William Austiiil others. | ! WEDNESDAY anti THURSDM I “RIDERS OF THE PURfU I SAGE.” STARRING TOM MIX In this virile drama of days, Jim Lassiter swept th’ the. countryside of the early ment and made his name Jf) to right a great wrong. The # scene iof this throbbing draw the great Western desert is in the mountains in a spot- of natural grandeur. To srt girl and himself from a few pursuing rustlers, a huge wk dropped down a sheer cliff, ing to death many of the hoi*® Tom Mix, Zane Grey and * iam Fcx mean a pitcure that worth while. 'yuwnat’str *-