AMUSEMENTS.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18368, 29 April 1925, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

PICTURE HOUSES. QUEEN'S THEATRE. "Loving Lies" is the titlo °f the chie! attraction, at the Queen's Theatre this week. The story deals with a sea captain who lets his kindness oi heart get the best of him in helping an unfortunate girl, thus furnishing food for ecanoW-mongers which threatens to wreck his own romance. iUere is an abundance of action, many thrilling situations, including a realistic storm at sea, and a lot of human interest. There are good supports.

GREATER CRYSTAL PALACE. A picture- thai must rank as one of the fineflt of achievements' is "Tho Tornado," a melodrama of love, hate, and adventure, which is the hcadKner on the current bill at tho Greater Crystal Palace Theatre. It is fine entertainment in rainy wavs, but perhaps its appeal lies m tn< j war in which it arouses htnrt interest, ana in the red-blooded action which fills". l-n« supporting picture is entitled "Affinities, a film which provides sparkling entertainment.

EVERYBODY'S THEATRE. "A Thief in .Paradise" is {ha headline at Everybody's Theatre this week. It is based on the well-known novel "The Worldlings," by Leonard Merrick, the author of many unusual talcs. Then, tho tale itself is set off Dy an all-star cast of players, Who ineludo Ronald Colman, a handsome and tslonted vonng etar, Dons Konyon, Aileen Pringle, Clauds Gillingwater, Alec. Francis, and John Patrick. Tho theme is an intensely interesting oao. GRAND THEATRE. An adaptation of Sabatini's great novel, "Captain Blood," is attracting big houses to tho Grand Theatrs. The book is. one of the class which it ia impossible to leave alone until the last page has been read, and much the same might be said' of the screen production. "Captain Blood" is certainly not one of the class of pictures which one is tempted to leave halfway through the screening. , LIBERTY THEATRE. It is useless to attempt to describe "Captain Blood," the attraction at the Liberty Theatre as a "superb, production," a "gigantio attraction," and so on, for all those terms have been employed and abused too frequently to carry any weight with them. They are now almost meaningless in a picture review. It would be better to describe it in an ordinary and simple way. "Captain Blood" is a good picture. Ncthing like it has been eeen ( in Christchurch since the screening of "The Eea Hatsk."

STRAND THEATRE. The feature at the Strand Theatre is "Flying Hoofs," etarrin<j Jack Hoxie. The story is one of thrilling interest and deals •with a bashful eheriff who attempt* to locate a desperado named the Raven. His 'brother is believed to be the outlaw, sund how lie proves people wrong in this surmise and wins for himself a winsome wifo makes a pleasing film dram*. There are a largo number of good supports on the programme*