ARCADIA PICTURES.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 31 December 1926, Page 2

ARCADIA PICTURES.

TO-NIGHT and SATURDAY. ALMA RUBENS INIS LOVE EVERYTHING?” In “Is Love Everything?” the new Master Picture which will’ be the attraction at the Arcadia Theatre on Friday and Saturday, Alma Rubens has the role of a young matron, two years married to an. indulgent and devoted husband, who, having once made her choice between two men, is again called upon to choose between them. This unique situation, which forms the dramatic crux of the story, calls for a highly intelligent interpretation of a woman’s secret , emotions and gives Miss Rubens perhaps her most effective part. As the beautiful cultured, and sensitive girl, reared among luxury suppressing her ele mental feelings, and only in a great crisis in her life, throwing aside the robes of conventionality, it is doubtful if any other actress on the screen is better equipped to interpret the difficult role. Her dark beauty, gentle mannerpoise and intelligence are said to admirably fit her for the part. The story opens with scenes on a luxuri ous estate in the East, takes its plot to sea on a palatial yacht and casts its principal characters aboard a whisky ship in mid Atlantic, where they find themselves refugees after the. wreck of the yacht. Frank Mayo, H. B. Warner, Walter MeGrail and Lily an Tashman are seen in the supporting cast. MONDAY and TUESDAY. “THE BORDER SHERIFF." Cultus Collins, sheriff of Cayuse County, and “Tater-bug” are partners in the battle business. Collins, while on the train of outlaws summoned to Washington, D.C., fo* a conference with the head Ut the U.S. Secret Service. "Tater bug’’ accompanies him. In Washington Collins is told that a bunch of crooks is smuggling dope across the border from Mexico. The brains of the band is Carter Brace, with headquarters in San Francisco. Brace directs his gang from a restaurant in San Francisco’s China town Collins is instructed to run down the smugglers. Collins and “Tater-bug” leave for San Francis co. Just before the train pulls out of Washington Henry Belden, who is going West with his daughter Joan, receives a telegram. It is from Brace. Belden read? the message and throws it on the floor of the observation platform. Collin* and "Tater-bug” board the train and Collins finds the message. He believes Belden is one of the gang and determines to follow him Collins and Joan meet on the train and become quite friendly. At San Francisco Collins goes to the Chin ese restaurant and overhears Brace plotting to do away with Belden and abduct Joan. He is to bring them tc the restaurant that even ing. When the party arrives a fake fight starts but Collins foils the plotters. Belden thinks him a robber. Seeing Belden safe Collins hastens back to Cayuse County to begin tracking down the smugglers He and the Beldens and Brace are on the same train, Brace having tolj Belden that the incident at the restaurant was the result of a Chinatown brawl. The Beldens arc also going to Cayuse. What happens there gives to the picture many a thrilling scene. WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY SIR JOHN MARTIN HARVEY IN “THE ONLY WAY.” Adapted from ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ Sir John Martin Harvey is to English drama what Melba is to Australian song. He is the prinee of actqis—and it was he who made the great drama. “The Only Way,” the most famous play of the English stage. At last English production has come to the ’ fore—with one mighty bound. For ' “The Only Way” ranks with the > greatest pictures any country has ever produced. The marvellous artistry of Martin Harvey will thrill you as you’ve never before been , thrilled—the sweep and power of the dramatic masterpiece will hold you with an unshakeable' grip. 31 “The Only Way” is a triumph—- ’ for British artistry and for British motion picture production. And it was backed bv the huge financial and s other resources of First National B Pictures. It is a landmark of mo- . tion picturedom!