AMUSEMENTS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 16 December 1927, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS.

COSY THEATRE. “The Sea Beast,” which will be screened at the Cosy Theatre to-night for the positively last time, is a Warner picture that marks John Barrymore’s return to the screen. It deals with the 1840 whalers. Barrymore appears as Aliab Cecley, the New England sailor who falls in love with a missionary’s daughter whom he meets on a voyage to Java. His brother, Derek, burns with jealous hate at the success of Aliab as a lover, and when the brothers are off on a hunt for an enormous white whale, known as Moby Dick, his chance for vengeance comes. Out on a little boat, Aliab is the first to plunge the harpoon into the whale. He is glowing with pride of victory j when Derek pushes him overboard into the churning waters. Aliab’s leg is amputated as a result of the sea beast’s bite. Crippled and apparently | deserted by the girl he loves, Aliab j scours the seas, a prey to the t vinentJ ing demons of revenge and despair. ! Caring nothing for life, he lives amid 1 sudden death and ever-present danger. But in the end, Ahab’s story is the story of an unconquerable soul. Barrymore, who toyed so beautifully through the pretty romancings of “Beau Bmmmel” and with such blood-curdling power through the horrors of “Dr. J'ekyll and Mr Hyde,” is said in “The Sea Beast” to have at last found a picture that gives full sweep to the multitudinous powers that have given him his position as the foremost American actor of screen or stage. Reserves at Yare’s. OPERA HOUSE. At the Opera House to-night there : will be screened for the last time, ( ‘ God Gave Me Twenty Cents. ’ ’ Dixie Willson's story has been retained almost wholly in the original. The production is good and the interest quite I well sustained once the story gets j under way. The atmosphere of the ’“world under the world” is not Haunted prominently and to counteract any unpleasant influence that this angle might bring Brcnon lias kept Lois Moran and her charming simplicity and innocence well in the foreground. The story tells about the romance of Mary a little waitress who is sublimely happy in her love for sailor Steve, a jolly young star who even surprises ; himself when he marries the innocent little Mary. Steve’s old girl, Carsie, a patron of Mr Tapman’s questionable hotel, is heartbroken and upon her release from prison she goads Steve into gambling cm whether or not lie will take her to sea with him. Lassie wins and Steve sails without a word to Mary. Distraught she wants to die, and with twenty cents she finds on the wharf she buys rr rose for her hair, is injured before she can take her life, •and in the hospital she meets Cassie, who, on her death-lied, explains that she had used false dimes for her wager with Steven, and that lie had not taken her with him. Steve returns to a jubilant .Mary.