AMUSEMENTS.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18362, 21 April 1925, Page 13

AMUSEMENTS.

PICTURE HOUSES.

EVERYBODY'S THEATRE,

A GOOD PItOGRAM&E

«nfEZ FROM HOLLYWOOD. ' AXD "THE FOOL'S AWAKENING."

f,tin though (he air was keen and filled wi(l» the autumral chill, the "Full House" eigo V» s in S in ? :n ,ront oi <ho ticket box of Everybody's Theatra lae.t night when tie manager, -Mr Harry Waters, presented jjiotlwr goid programme of motion pic}arr» and orchestral musio to his everjjereiaing; crowd or patrons. Tho bill tlii3 ■ffti. is •l*"? an! ' thoroughly enjoyable. •■lues from Hollywood,' » l-'irft National ja ntf, of jovc, laughter, and tears, is the Jpdlinci' on ; ' lO current bill. Anna |. %£jjson, 3>ewis Stone, and Mary Astor aie i(*tured m this production, in which one ! ' ■' is tfforded an intimate glimpse of studiy life and screen personalities. For instance, in ew scene one b?holds Antonio Moreno, TV'il.'ace Beery, and tho three young and pcpnlar stais L'.oyd Hughes, Hen Lyon, and fori Sterling, all talcing part in a lunch set jar them in the studio dressing room cf /!#«* Q- Nileson, who portrays the part of tfctttrica! vampire. In order to gain world■rfje publicity, and thereby come into the ' iwWic's eye, ehe allov.-3 her Press agents to \ xntfjum her as being tho "worst woman in -BoDnrood." The result is that what is 1 shout. her is believed by tho ' Bui, this self-designated, home--1 Sleeking "vamp" thrown af-ido her mask | becoraei* n, very human and lovablo per--1 -jjn, The story, which is interest,ins, shows ' tfjat she is not, vampish in her true, s.elf, ivi that, sho is willing to make i sacrifice irfth a smile. Lewis Stone plays the part rich man about town whose aJlegilltes to the "ramp" falters and. ultimately itltches itself to the latter's younger sisUt *hom ho finda ho loves better than ill* of his other "fancies.'" When sho dis- ■ vnerS this, tha theatrical rtar sacrifices her ■ ;ltr# for him for the happiness of her sister, i; who is portrayed by Mary Astor. However, '.<4h» ending is happy. It is ono of tha best * ?jr*t National pictures seen at this theatre far somo considerable time. ; "The Fool's Awakening," * six-reel A Mpmiwant-Metro prod action, is placed as , oeiond big attraction on tho new pro'•."••vifimnie. It is such an entirely unusual : Ijb, that it could quit© easily take first Vri-fcjjei 'on any bill. It has been adapted to 2■ 1 'ths sdree.t from the widely-read novel by J. Locke, entitled VThe Tale of iiVi'-'ffridiia." Dttmaticslly the tale rotates how soldier ramed John Briggs returns to his ■ h lojne weary of war. Ho writes eeveral >'f ;- Mines 'which, however, are rejected by all P' : publishers. Than about thu time, when ho very little to lire upon, his mother keoomea ill, and in desperation he . uses ! : material in a diary he bad found on - Triona, a dead Russian soldier. Around the S-v- notes in the diary ho weaves a story and in'i- studs it to the publishers, baying that the p; M acrience& are his own. Nothing ilk* it ■ ),„] ever teen written or read before, and r; ,he becomes famous. But through; his famo ■' ha is forced to assume the identity of the -' dead Ilusrian. Alexis Triona, and as auch £ he weds the beautiful Oliria Gale. However, after a scries of events ho writes a confcs,ion to hi-i wife nnd lcavaa his home. Olma deipii* 4 him; eho repulses him in the - •'■ steet and then, driven by shame and the iy thought that he haa lived a lie, he drives . hij ear over a cliff. Tha «l»jn»x which ends :in his forgiveneee is eplendid. Harrison Vord. as Alexia Triona, and Enid Bennett . a t oiivia Qale, are excellent. Tho pictures fe'v it support of the featured two aro gtwd. ' Tho theatre's orchestra playa an admirable programme of music. The overture this ; week is the popular "Victoria on .,' and the entr'aeto is "Intcrmezso. ( Cavalfe£?a Rusticana"). BaUct mueio inchided ft ? g»int-Baen»'s "Qavotte, whjch was prettily Pi'. Saved. Vr'idor' a "Serenade," I v ianffed from th» organ solo h>' the condnc- - was rendered charmingly. Tew included a Symphony poem, , ?r. (S»int-Sax>nß), "Humoreske o>vomk), awl S -"Minuet in Q'' (Beethoven) (in, the lastiwntioTied two. numbers tie strings : .%r effective)- "EISA's Dream, a ( ~niet !«,h, played by Mr H, Tos, -L Rn SXtiiaement «hi Tcndredi Saint (Wag f - Mr from "Parsifal"). numbers lnill'tluded selections from Sail/ and It Had p|%|Po Be Yo'i." T S QUEEN'S THEATRE. 7 A Iwuis J. Qasnier production, "Occasionally Yours," released aft a Kotetwn-C®'* It spocial, heat., tho new picture bill at the Cr Queen's Theatro, which opened yesterday. '-<£■ Lew Cody i« starred in an excellent piece §f,of satire and is supported a very atoonsf M cast. Ccdy does some of his beet screen g work in this picture. Tho story is well Pieced together and carries the audience Lion? its Jine of action with keen interest. society iife *he «««ae 4>, ant i «he stage settings axe lavish and strix -in?!y beautitul. The audience is taken uito il an atmosphere of luxury and richness and fe-Mr Ccto Plays a role of a young artwt-au unusual type of man-who does not allow p'" his art to interfere with his love a2 alr • f Jie ta«6s as hie code, "Olf with the old an p: ,; on with the new," and spends most of his time in the pursuit of pleasure and living p- lor to-day. 'inis mode of imng gcts him into all' sorts of scrapes, and wh,ie i 1 ,-A\ vamped by the old love he finds hiinao f ' hecoining interested in the new. An anti- :, " climax is brought about through a week-end ['&:• party and a runaway hoise. ihe love fiend V Slime the matrimonial register when he asks 'i tM new love, who he supposes is dying, to'become hie wile. The lady m question recovers, and then-well, then wo fift to the sunch of the picture, which should not be ■i: ~ fevealed. Betty Blytne, heroine of a down W , Eucce3«ul ecreen dranaae, appears as » vi a. r» .ions widow and in this case, the p d love. V Her acting coupled with her personal Sjj? 1 ™ makes her worK. excellent. Dainty 1 is the new love who almost ieads JU to the altar.. Miea Fair, wno will be <M- remembered aa tho invalid girl in The Miracle Man," adds to her laurels in .this • ' picture. Others in the cast include Lilian . S"' Sambeau, Cleo Ridgely, Gertrude Astor, Barney Sherry, Lloyd Hamilton and >Ki Miam Qninn. "Boot*," a canine actor, lends /inuch to the story. ! In "Hearts of Oak," the newest Willw-m C.-Sox special photoplay, which is the second , *,feature on the programme, the supremo aac>|;«irifice one man can make for another • w in a dramatio manner. Teriy Dnnnidiscovering that his adopted daughter :®a»wied him merely from gratitude but #SsWljr loves his adopted son, takes the boy s !''|®s!iee on a suicide venture to the Arctic. He fijlSßows his' chancea of returning are - small he instmcts his children to marry after !".H§ffl|»a«oaabJe time' has passed. An old gen-:-?|Siation still remembers James A. Heme, tno , :i»thor of tho play, when he toured the counplayinj the leading role in his master- ' Those who see Hobart Bosworth in part on tho screen will never forgot it. touchea the heart-strings in a manner f rowadays. Tragedy ataixs the picture, but youth and love %fI triumph over it. fej- GRAND THEATRE.

V,i Ret» is not a dull moment during the 'r Mreeiunj of the "Border Legion," \» Zane -Oley stbry, which hoads thn programme at tb». o»nd Theatre this week. It was jb the Bockies that the Border Legion was the of the neighbourhood. Jack Kells, 3®V, *ke leader of the gang was a ruler of men, i i\ Tmt there was one man in the Border Legion fei whom he oouid not manage, Gulden, tbe i"" 1 taosfr .heartless of heartless men. A E ir J jaunts hor lover by saying that he has Jjot : V even got enough 1 go in him to be baa. -tie r , ttkes it to heart, and decides to join the % Bolder Legion. When the girl finds that he has set out on. this mission the decides L' 1o follow him, and is captured by Kells. -o ■; trie* to force her to marry him, but it is oi jr* r camp and joins up with the Legion. we :C • «deavours to save the girl, but is frns - Finally Gulden and Kelis cut cards w A* the girl. Gulden wins, but Kails re- '' to let him have her. During f followi both Gulden and Keljfl are kil ed I *°i Clev'e »nd the girl are left alone. Tl^ 0 J, lading role i« taken by Antonio Moreno, t f. Helens Chadwick makes a most fascmgt- 1 heroine for this wild "Western etory. An erring father as well as an erring I' * wighter are the two centres of attraction in "fr S* Wend picture, "Daughters of Pleasure. leading roles are taken by Mane PreMonte Blue, and Clara Bow.

GREATER CRYSTAL PALACE. A TRIPLE-HEADED BILL. JACK DEMPSEY ON THE SCREEN. Patrons of this week's programme at Greater Crystal Palace, screened vesterday for the first time, fir3i have their pa'atcs I tickled with an engaging comedy and an interesting gazjfie, cml are then introduced to a programme eomewhat unique in thesa —if only from the viewpoint of the number of pictures. Three splendid photodramas, distinct in conception but inseparable in quality, are featured, and if one may jucigc from the frequent- expressions of appreciation ' - wh.ch the ini'.ial audience gave vent last evening, crowded houaos are issurei for the of the wee::. The coinedv is "L»king Doun." in which " anda "Wiley, with iter bewitching manner and jr{irthful adventures, keeps the audienco ■ looking up the- full hilar.ous fifteen m.nut#s or so that flit 1 y while she i 3 in pess'»=ion ,<f the scrce;i. Most of the m»lc -ection c.f the audiene? were, of course, waitin? for the nrij-eanince of Jark Ueinpsc;.-, and be showed in "Fight and Win" tint he has lost none of his punch and h-'.s no more fear of the director's camera than ha has of the timekeeper's gong. Perhaps it is las reputation that commends him most to picture audiences, but if he had started life's battle at Hollvwood instead of in tlis squared ring. "Fieht and Win" is gcod evidence that he would at least havo m»de a bid for prominence in tho sc r een world. "Fight and Win" is an improvement on the delightful "Leather-Pushers" scries, with all the excitement of those popular scieen stories condensed into one rattling good plot,, with the cctual world's champion giving an exhibition i:s true and f-ensational as any that- the American fight fan 3 got for the big dollars they paid for his sparring exhibitions, to say n:thing of some of hii lightning fights. The story is ons in which croo?< promoters figure on a. champion's downfall, but trie champion has something to fight for—ar.d he wins. All the fascination cf California's goldfields enters into the next fe.itirre film, "Thi Sunset. Trail." with William Desmond and Gareth Hughes nlaying the leading role?,. They arc great stars in different constellations, and ,a better coirtfiinaticn for nuc'i a themn oould_ hardly have been selected. The story, adapted from the novel of Henry Herbert, Knibbs, "Overland Red." is centred in the desert region of California, and deals with the fortunes of a Tancher who'finds gold, and loses it, with hi.i life. How an outcast; suspected of a hank robbery and driven from the pale of men like a hunted coyote, wins back tho claim for the ranchman's dangbter and incidentally the charm; ing young heire-B hcrfelf, ia the scheme of the simple tile, which doc; not draw to a close bsforo the audience has been thrilled with such intrifrues and adventures as only such a region as cutback California, can furnish. A very, unusual plot is unravelled in thu third big picture, ".Roulette.," founded ou a famous magazine story by William McHarg. It concerns the life of a girl orphaned by fhe death of her father, following upon % IwaYily-staked poker g&mc. She is adopted by the man who cheated her father, atia whert «hc returns from Koardiiiff school sh2 is used as a dccov in her adopted faiher* gambling house. Here she meets Peter Marineanx, a wealthy young aristocrat, with whom she falls in love. How she finally avenges her father's death and_ wins the man she loves forms an absorbing climax. Tho leading role is> taken by Edith Jioberts, who is supported by a splendid cast. Mr Alfred J. Biinz'a Symphony Orchestra again presented a. talented and cnjoyablo musical programme. They played as m overture "Tantal nsqilalen (Suppel. this oponcd with a bright vivace and the allegretto, as a clarinet solo, was charmingly -played The symphony was the first movement from "Jupiter" (Mozart). This opened with good attack and the woodwind passages were very finely ptaved. The whole movement was evidently a w- to players and andienc* alike. "Scenes' Rustic" (Montin) was a very unarming suite; and in the opening tn<> clarinet solo' was beautifully ""swered by the oboe, and the reply of . the cello and muted cornet proved most, effective Number two cf the suite, a light and bright waltz movement, gave the flautist an oppor-, Vunitv to display his fine playing. Th entr'acte, (Henderson) reauljed in repeated demands for ail encore.

STRAND THEATRE.

The popular juvenile actress,. Baby Peggy, is featured in the new headliner at tho Strand Theatre this week, |Tho Family Secret-." Margaret Selfridge nad secretly married Garry Holmes, a handsome young fellow, to whom-Simon. Selfridge,-Margaret s rich grandfather, had decided " Ejections. iJut when tho baby was born, Garry, although, forbidden tho house, stole in through a window to eeo his wife and child, only to bo charged with housebreaking by Simon Selfridge, whose heart was cold. He came from prison four years later, a brokenhearted vagrant. Peggy dßcovers Holmes breaking into the bouse rf his father-in-law and is shot up by Simon just as he ( diecovers that Peggy is hU granddaughter. A Mans Mate" is the second feature, and is a decidedly interesting film with. John Gilbert and Renoe Adoree in the leau.

LIBERTY THEATRE,

' "Broadway After Dark" heads the current bill at the Liberty Theatre, and Adolphe Menjou, the suave and sophisticated, is in the stellar rolo. - Ralph Norton's main and only concern was himself. In the society in which he moved, the men were invariably wasters and the women invariably fools. Mr Norton's efforts to make life as easy as possible for himself were somewhat amusing, for ho commanded, all that money could buy. Just off Broadway, in a mean street, in a fourth-rate boarding-house he found what he sought. Hoec Duland was working there as a slavey, trying to live down a prison record. Then this remarkable man came, and, by way of playing a joke on society, gave tho slavey fine clothes-and introduced her into tho most aristocratic homes in the land. What came of the joke, cf tho slavey and of the very sophisticated young man—that forms the story. The other film, The "Super-Sex," is an entertaining one. There is a small-city wooing, /much youthful jealousy and disagreement when the polished city man comes to monopolise attention, and several very funny incidents. Heading tho cast is Robert Gordon.