THE “STAR” PICTURES
VAUDEVILLE AND PICTURES AT THE TOWN HALL
Alack Sennntt’s five reels of comedy fanbasy>:ind beauty, bearing the title of “Home Talent.” will be the starring attraction at the Star'Pictures to-mor-row night. The story opens in a rural atmosphere, revealing Charlie Murray as an hotel man, whose principal assistant is his daughter, Phyllis Harvey, in the role of it- scullery maid. Later she blossoms forth in :i performance planned and produced by a quartette of impecunious vaudeville performers. They are Ben Turpin, James Finlayson. Eddie Gribbon and Kalla Pasha, and they neither can remain at the hotel or leave it. Charlie. Murray agrees 10 back thqm in their theatrical venture, if they will give him first chance in the box office receipts, 'fhe scenes 6,1’ the spectacle laid in Rome, and out of this Alack Senneit extracted wild hilarity, romance, picturesque qualities, suspense and thrills. “.The Dying Detective” another of the splendid Sherlock Holmes series, adds to the interest of the programme. Cecil Verne, the Australian Charlie Chaplin, will appear in a comedy and variety sketch, and is sai dto prove very popular in his Pot Pourri act, in. which his sketch and items arc excellent.
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Waipukurau Press, 2 June 1922, Page 3
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