AMUSEMENTS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18228, 12 November 1924, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS.

PICTURE HOUSES.

GREATER CRYSTAL PALACE.

A three-featurc bill. ia being presented at tho Greateir Crystal Palaco Thoatre this week. It ia headed, by "The Heart Specialist," featuring Man- Milc3 Mintcr. This is a most unusual "thriller/' a 'newspaper etory that compares very favourably with '"Go and Get It," and similaT productions. Mary Morrison wroto it, and she know'what she 13 talking about, for besides being a successful novelist, she has /'.held down"-a report-ing-job on one of New Yofk'e big dailies. Tho spectator is taken behind" the scenes. The supports include "Her "Five Foot Highness," and "Tho Fast Steppers."

EVERYBODY'S THEATRE. In "Lilies of the Field," the headlmer at Everybody's Theatre, an all star has been collected, at the head of which, ero Corinne Griffith and Conway Tearlc, who have earned for themselves the distinction of being TPgardcd as the screen's ideal lovers. H they had rot attained to that position before, they would certainly have done' so in this, their latest success. Miss Griffith is Ec-en in the character of ft young wife who, like bo many others, discovers after marriage that it has failed to bring her the happiness aho expected. There arc good supports.

QUEEN'S THEATRE. The Paramount specialty, "Tl^s. Breaking Point," which heads this week's bill, at the Queen's' Theatre, -is. a- film which includes everything calculated to make it <Jne of the most gripping productions of the day,, and in"their objective ita producers have Kucceedcd in no uncertain manner. In choosing the cast, the services of euch well-known Btars an Patsy Ruth Miller, Mat, Moore, JN'itaNaldi, and George Fawcett have been retained, and in the course of tho film, each of these works splendidly with the remainder of the cast. Tho story ia quite unusual and m<fst entertaining.-

GRAND THEATRE, The vivacious Gloria Swanson, who is the star in "The.Humming Bird," the headliner at tho Grand Theatre, has been seen in a variety of parts, but in none in which she is more' attractivo than ,as Toiriette, tho Parisian Apache girl. Though many of the scenes are cast in the underworld of Paris, tho play, is not. a "crook drama." Tho criminal atmosphere ia used merely as a background, the j*eal theme concerning fho love of a girl of that world for a newspaper man.- In. support arc shown several oilier good pictures.' LIBERTY THEATRE.

"Poisoned Paradise" is the chief, attraction at the Liberty Theatre this week. The photoplay is taken from' tho, book by the famous' auth'o'r of stories and vereo—Robert ."W. Service. That, in itself,-is sufficient to guarantee tho picture; .in -which, ' tho -love otory- of an English artist and Paris milliner is unfolded against- the background of the Paradise." . The supports include' "Fools pf' Fortune," .and a. Topical Budget' containing seve'ral feet •of tho All Blacks: v. Devon' match., STRAND THEATRE. -

in which; John Trowell is Hie ' star, is attracting :;l,&rgo houses .to the 'Strajid" -Thea-trb this .week.The film deals :with the" machinations' of;,aHbaiid of crooked politictons^'who "«re endraybiiiing to oust I'ihfe settlers-of-ft certain : diatncJ from their holdings," because of a projected land boom ;in-;that' locality. A charmiig love story runs 'throughout, and thero are ; a number of exceirent''Biipi»6rtsv: • \ -■