AMUSEMENTS.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18370, 1 May 1925, Page 11

AMUSEMENTS.

PICTUKE HOUSES. LIBERTY THEATRE. It is better to describe "Captain Wood," the draw at the Liberty Theatre thie week, as a pood picture, becauso the more flowery superlatives have beer, overdone in picture descriptions and are cow almost meaningless. Nothing like it hue been seen in ChriEtchuTch since the "Sea Hawk. l"«a arc good supports. "THE MASK OF LOPEZ" AND "DANGEROUS MONEY.'' The new at the Id"?"' 7 Theatre to-morrow is headed by Fred I bomson, the famous athlete, in "The Mask or Lopez," a picture unique ainoug Western dramas. Thomson is supported by a competent cast, including Silver Kin?, tne famous horse. Fred Thomson takes the part of Jack O'Neill, a lively young Westerner, who visits his brother, warder of the Arizona State Penitentiary. At the prison he finds Angel Face Harrv, a notorious cattle thief. Harry at one time had saved Jack s life, so the latter decides to hold out ft helping hand when the prisoner la released Un his return to the cattle country. Jack finds that two thieves have terrorised the countryside, and with the help of the es-oonvirt and his marvellously trained horse, he routs the conspirators after many thrilling 1 events. One. of the most startling scenes in this picture, is where O'Neiil puts up a powerful right with the -ru.'ain, by diving over a seven-foot fence, pulling him off his horse, dragging him through the dirt, and throwing him into a watering trough. The climax is intensely dramatic. The heroine is on a runaway horse, and is heattfne for a chasm that means certain death. ONeili puts his horse to the gallop, vaults over barbed-wire fences, and snatches the girl from the other horse while both animals are rearing in the air. The American c*';" 0 country is the locale of tho picture, which is in a c'ass above the ordinary drama. Love, romance, trials, and tribulations 6uch as everybody meet? in ordinary life, make the picture very welcome, ai. the. most unusual feature ib Thomson's athletic exploits. In addition to Fred Thomson, the cast includes Wilfred Lucas, David .a-irby, Hazel Keener, Frank Hagney and others. The second big attraction is "Dangerous Money," which opens with a gay and whimsical love scene on the Brooklyn waterfront between Bebe Daniels and Tom Moore. The action takes place on a bridge, with the tall spires of Manhattan in the background, and tug-boats and barges passing up and down the. river. There is also a bathing scene at Lake Maggiore, Italy, where Miss Daniels and others enjoy an afternoon "beach tea.'" A medieval costume ball, curtained gondolas with flowers and lanterns, strumming mandolins, gay young nobles and ladies making merry in the costumes of the Thirteenth Century Italy. The story tells of a poor gir! who became wealthy, but her money instead of bringing the happiness that was intended, proved a danger to her. Bebe Daniels is the girl, and the supporting cast 'includes Tom Moore, William Powell, Dolores Cassinelli, Mary Foy and others. The supporting pictures include a comedy and Topical Budeet. The Mackrnnon Boys will appear in a, musical and dance turn. These two artists are most versatile in every way and they are very entertaining. Their dancing is really wonderful. Besides, being good dancers the Mackinhon Boys are also capable musicians, and on the whole tie turn they have to offer is really high-class. A delightful musical programme will be rendered by the Liberty Quality Orchestra under Mr Howard Moody. > GRAND THEATRE. I ______ An adaptation of Sabatini's great novel, ''Captain Blood," is attracting big houses to the Grand Theatre. The book is.one of tho class which it is impossible to leave alone until the last page has been nead, and much the same might be said of the screen production. "MANHATTAN" AND "FOE YOU, MY BOY." For tho benefit of tho children who hare not had an opportunity of seeing "Captain Blood," the great picture from the story by Rafael Sabatini, tho management of the Grand Theatre have decided to give a special and final screening of this picture at do matinee to-morrow, commencing at 1.30. Joffery Farnol's famous novel, "The Dc- ' finite Object," which will be sbown. to-mor-row under the title of "Manhattan," featured Richard T)ix and Jacqueline Logan. It is something out of the ordinary and gives a wonderful insight into the underworld of New York. Peter Minuit,. a wealthy young idler, dons an old suit of clothes &ttd starts cheerfully for Hell's Kitchen, tie abode of Gentleman George, Bud McGinnis, and other notorious criminals. Here he meets Mary and it. ia a case of love at first sight i with both of them. Spike, Mary's yonnger brother, it seems, wants to show I>ad McGinnis. czar of all New York's England, just what ho can do. Ho climbs through, the window of Mir.uit's home to steal —anything. Minuit catches him and thereby hangs a talo--t.be talc of "Manhattan," just about the fastest-moving and most entertaining crook drama fiat's -ever reached tie screen. The supporting cast includes Gregory* Kelly, George Seigmann, Gunboat Smith, Oscar Figman, Edna Mae Oliver, a-id Alice Chaplin. The second attraction, "For Tou, My Boy,' is a vivid, tense, dramatic offering .dealing with tho> seldom-depicted emotion of fatherlove. It provides absorbing entertainment and presents a. quest-ion of paramount interest to every mother and father in the, world to-day. "For You, My Boy," deals with the good old-fashioned homely emotions, the mistaken .sacrifice made by a father for what he considers the best interest of his motherless baby boy, and as a result living a life of pain and suffering, and bo was forced to stand by and watch that boy being led into temptation without the right or power to step in and interfere, and set him on the right road. This gripping.story is interpreted by tho following cast: Louis Dean, Joan Armour, Matty E-oubert, Ben Lewin, .Schuyler ' White, Gladys Grainger, Franklin Hanna, and Scott Hinchner. The Grand Orchestra, under Mr Harold Beck, will play a delightful musical programme.

GREATER CRYSTAL PALACE. A melodrama of love, hate and adventure entitled "The Tornado" is tho hcadliner on the current bill at tho Greater Crystal Palace Theatre. It is fine entertainment in many ways, but perhaps its appeal lies in the way in' which it arouses heart interest, and in the red-blooded action which fills it. The supporting picture is entitled "Affinities," a film which provides sparkling entertainment. QUEEN'S THEATRE. "Loving Lies," the featnrc at the Queen's Theatre, dcala with a sea captain, who lets his kindness of heart get the best of him in hetoin? an unfortunate girl, thus furnishing food for scandal-mongers which threatens to wreck his' own romance. There is an abundance of action, many thrilling situations, and a lot of human interest EVERYBODY'S THEATRE. "A Thief in Paradise." the attraction at Everybody's Theatre, is the picture version oi one of Merrick'3 novels. Tho tale itself is set off bv an all-star cast of players, who include Ronald Colman, a handsome and talented voung star, Dons Kenyon, Aileen Pringle". Claude G illingwater, Alec Francis, and John Patrick. STRAND THEATRE. "Flying Hoofs," the attraction at the Strand Theatre, deals wiih a bashful sheriff wijo attempts- to locate a desperado named the Raven. His brother is believed to be the oatlaw, and how he proves people wrong in this surmise and wine lor Waseli a winsome wife makes a pleasing film drama.