ENTERTAINMENTS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 46, Issue 14099, 16 April 1920, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

‘•DADDY LONG LEGS.” To-night will see the final screening of *‘Daddy Long Legs” at the Opera House. ‘‘Daddy Long Legs,” which is Mary Pieford's very first, own production' ,is an attraction with universal appeal. It is filled with children and their doings. Moreover the children are not everyday kiGdies with parents and homes, but the little charges of an orphan asylum which is sadly mismanaged, The role of Judy Abbott is played by Mary Bickford. She is a 1 welve-vear-ohl girl, full of life and fun, dodging the repressive methods of the superintendent, of the home to run off and help her companions who are faring ill on the miserable diet and poor care they receive. Among the children supporting the star is the funniest and most freckled boy ever seen in pictures. COSY THEATRE. In the Goldwyn comedy - drama “One of the Finest,” Tom Moore, the matinee idol, has one of the finest roles ami one of the finest stories in which he has ever been seen. As Handsome Larry, the pride of the Mounted Police Force, and later the eagle-eyed sleuth of the plain clothes men, Moore has every opportunity to display the versatility and magnetism for which he is so popular. “One of the Finest” is a truly delightful comedy drama of romance and adventure, with sufficient dramatic intensity to hold the interest from start to finish. There are laughs and there are thrills, and now and then you get a lump in your throat, for “One of the Finest is insensely human. There is a sweet child in ‘‘One of the Finest,” the new Goldwyn comedy drama, in which popular Tom Moore scores heavily in the rule of a mounted polieenran. Her name is “Peaches” Jackson. “Peaches” assumes the role of a thief arrested by Larry Hayes. Later Larry and liis mother give the child a home and bring her up in the right way, Mary .Jane’s mother coming to see them when her work permits. This is one of the many .little humanities which make “One of the Finest’ the success of the moment. Another chapter of ‘ ‘ Stingarec ” is most exciting, whilst plenty of humour is dispensed in “Loony Lions and Monkey Business.” A good Gazette completes the programme. PARAMOUNT THEATRE. NORMA TALMADGK. Norma Talmadge appears at her best in her latest picture now being screened at the Paramount. “The New Moon” is a story of Russian life as it exists to-day—of men and women, aristocrats and peasants, freedom and bondage, love and laughter, hate and tears. A beautiful Russian Princess disguises herself as a peasant girl, while she seeks protection from the anarchists who are trying to rule the town. When the young women of the country are ordered to register so as to be nationalised, she leads them to revolt. Miss Norma Talmadge, as the Princess Pavlovna, is given an excellent opportunity to display that remarkable versatility for which she has become famous. As the Russian Princess she is proud, beautiful and gorgeously dressed. Decked in resplendent jewels, silks and velvets, she is truly a ondrously beautiful member of the Royal house of Russia. Later, as a peasant girl, in coarse, 111-fitting clothes and shawled head, she lends atmosphere and realism to the role, lhe •biggest ballroom ever used in pictures, picturesque scenes at Saranac Lake, Russian officers in their handsome uniforms, and loose-bloused, long-bearded Bolsheviks and peasant girls in the grey sashes and pretty shawls, tramped about the hills in twelve inches of snow, troikas, and britiehkas, Russian sleighs, all .lend the atmosphere of realism to the production. The last chapter of “The Fighting Trail” provides an excellent finish. Other good films are also showing. THE MARVELLOUS CREMONAS. The .above talented company will make their first appearance in Masterton at the' Opera House to-morrow night, when no doubt they will -draw a large audience. The Box plan is at the Bristol. Jfhe Cremjouas are recipients of the most flattering eulogies ami highest ccomiums from the clergy, press and public, their particular form of entertainment —whilst necessitating possession of (exceptional versatility and artistic skill —being the embodiment of absolute refinement, elevating on tone and sentiment, and unanimously declared a truly delightful and intensely interest show, winning unstinted approval; thus exemplifying in an unmistakable manner the extraordinary genius of this celebrated, combination.