AMUSEMENTS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18216, 29 October 1924, Page 12

AMUSEMENTS.

PICTURE HOUSES.

QUEEN'S THEATRE. Large audiences are being delighted at the Queen's Theatre this week. A remarkable and unusual romance i; "Tho Da,wn of a To-morrow," which heads the bill. It is f'tll cf jrrippinjr scenes, ar.d big- moments. I'rancos Hodgson Burnett's popular novel, which several year 3 ago was presented as a = .;oefs=;'ii st Jg? )->!:iy with Eleanor liobson in ilir- leading role, has lieen transferred to the screen by Goo rye Melford for Paramount. "Desire." a stirring drama that has already made a -nam? for itself, is the second attracti -n. It is a Metro special ti'.m with an all-star cast, including Marguerite de la Motto, John Bowers. Estelle Taylor and Edward Connolly. The include ''Hello. Stranger." a. comedy, the latest, Gazette and a Burton Holmes Travelogue. EVERYBODY'S THEATRE. Pinero's well-known 6-torv, "The Knet! inted Cottage." is the leading- attraction at Everybody's Theatre. Tlie Etory is full of power, and is acted superbly, the leading nar'us being i.'iken by Richard Barthelmes3 and May McAvoy. Both handsome artists, their make-up as the afflicted couple is a remarkable piece of work, which is accentuated by the contrast they offer v.-hen they are seen as they appear in each other's eves when loves comes to them. "The Enchanted Cottage" is certainly a, picture 10 make an invorcssion on one's mind. "My Lady's Latchkey," starring Katherino Macdonjiid, is the 'second big picture. Under Mr W. 3. Bellinghatn, the Select Orchestra plays an appropriate programme of music. GREATER CRYSTAL PALACE.

"Fashion .Tsow,'' a gorgeous Tiffany production featuring Mac Murray, heads a. fine bill at Greater Crystal Palace. The costuming and setting of this picture in both the American and Russian scenes aro a hifeature, aacl the whole production is clever!v worked out. Mae Murray was, it is said, originina.lly a. dancer, and she performs a dance in this play •which places her liurh above many other film actresses whose parts call for a. terpsichorean item. "Riders Up," a Universal production, adapted from a. magazine story by Gerald Beaumont, is tho second attraction. Thero is a fine variety of supporting pictures, including the seventh episode of the serial "The Fast Express," a Century comedy, and an International Xews. liberty theatre. David Belasco's big success, "The Gold Digger.'/' is the main attraction at the Liberty Theatre, where the first moving pictures of tho All Blacks in Efngland aro also screened. "The Gold Diggers" does not signify much to Xew Zealanders, who on hearing it naturally think of alluvial mining, whereas it is an Americanism, and an expressive one, for that class of women who aim to get as much money, jewels, and other valuables out of a man as tliex can on the security of their powers of fascination over tho sterner sex. Ethel M. Dell's etory, "The Eleventh Hour, is an all-En <*lish production, featuring an allBritish cast. Tho Liberty Quality Orchestra, under -the, direction of Mr Howard Moody, provides a well chosen programme. grand theatre. "Dorothv Vernon of Haddon Hall, ' a romantic 'stoiy of England in Elizabeth's. r«i<m, features Mary Pickford. The star is supported by one «f the strongest casts seen for some time. Allan Forest plays tho lover Sir John Manners, and Marc McDermott'the villainous cousin, Malcolm V Anders Randolph makes an ideal father for Dorothv ? "Vernon, and as the Eai 1 of Rutland Wilfred Lucas has suitable part "As a Man Lives," the second atfraction. is a novel melodrama, abounding in action and suspense and thrills. The Gran Orchestra, under Miss Agnes Sheaasbj , pUjs a delightful programme of music. STRAND THEATRE. "Blihky," an excellent comedy drama, with Iloot Gibson as the star,, heads the bill at the Strand Theatre. Blinky was detailed to the fighting cavalry down, on the Mexican border. He had never ridden a horse and never had a gun in his hands. It looked Tou'h foi "Blinky" until the majors daughter was kidnapped, and for her Blmky would have crossed the' Styx with a smile. It T" d Cit»" *&rf™6)'' Pl The r> S °n fed Sleuth." (Century comedy, IcxluruA «. International *«».