ACADEMY THEATRE

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXVI, Issue 7899, 7 September 1929, Page 2

ACADEMY THEATRE

VICTOR MCLAGLEN AND KEN I MAYNARD TO-NIGHT Still another wonder programme will be presented at the Academy Theatre to-night at 8 o’clock sharp. “Captain Lash,” the latest from the Fox Studios, is said to be Victor McLaglen’s best picture. He is seen as the fifth engineer of an ocean liner, a hard-boiled seaman whose sobriquet comes from the fact that he drives his stokers with a figurative whip. Of an elemental type who yet has shrewd intelligence, he is drawn into a net of international mystery in which the leading figure is a girl of great beauty. Claire Windsor and Clyde Cook are also featured. Action, love, dare-devil riding and a touch of comedy will be found ■in “The Canyon of Adventure,” starring Kern Maynard, Virginia Brown Faire and, of course, Tarzan, the wonder horse, A comedy “Cold Turkey," and the Fox News will complete the programme. The usual popular matinee will be held at 2.30 p.m., when "The Canyon of Adventure" will bo the star.

Against the thunderous background of war-torn France, with flying aces zooming in the air overhead and the backwash of the world’s most terrible conflict bringing panic to the peasantry, a little slip of a girl In simple frocks takes you to great emotional heights, brings a heart-throb here and a tear there, as you follow'her through one of the greatest, romances ever told. That, in a sentence, is “Lilac Time,’’ or “Love Never Dies,” First National’s great new special picture, starring Colleen Moore to be shown on Monday and Tuesday and at a special matinee on Monday at 2.30 o’clock. “Love Never Dies” is truly great, and Colleen Moore is brilliant in a role that rises to emotional heights. This clever Httle comedienne, who sprang to fame in the flapper pictures of a few years ago, is justly entitled to a niche among the best dramatic actresses of all time, A fresh chapter of the “New Collegians” will be included in the supports.