ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 139, 8 March 1920, Page 10

ENTERTAINMENTS

THE KING'S THEATRE. In choosing to present with, each new series of pictures a musical programme of unimpeachable finality, tho management of tbo King's Theatre displays sound judgment ami pernaps some courtesy, too. For the nmnagoment has all along credited its patrons with the ability to distinguish between first-rate pictures and mediocre productions. It could hardly, then, invite them to tolerate a mixture of good film-plays and tind music. How completely it has avoided that error one may judge this wool; by the beautiful orchestral renderings of selections from 'The Gondoliers" and 'by Iho very fine singing of Mr. Fairfax Jones. ''The Experimental Marriage," with Constance Talmadge and Harrison Ford in the roles of bride <\nd bridegroom, is the principal film-play presented. It is - n eomedv of remarkable brilliancy. Anyone, ■might suppose that a Fnturd'ayito-ilomlny marriage, ivitli tlio contracting naTties free (in the sacred interests of "Feminism") to spend tho rest of. the week as they liked. would be productive of many amusing embarrassments nnd complications. Jt required, however, the imagination of just such an authoT as ha? written the piav to realise all tho piquancy of the subject and to distil all its humour for' the theatre natron's cllight. "The- Experimental Marriage" is an infallible laugh-maker.

"THE MAN FROM KANGAROO."

In view of the mnnner in which American companies have "spread-eagled" ths United States over tlio movim? picture field of New Zealand, the success of the Australian production, Mnn _ from Kangaroo," particular," gratifying. Tl"> picture liad its ftltial screening in Wellington in tho Empress Theatre on Saturday, when it wns very favourably received. Indeed, in many respects "The Man from Kangaroo" can give noints to many of the big American films that have graced the local screens. To begin with, it is an absorbing and comprehensive story, full of dramatic situations. Added to this is the fact that It-is internreW by a slron? east. hencWl. iw the redoubtable "Snowy" Tinker.' of athletic fame. nnd Miss Brownie Vernon, n. winsome young _ actress. "The Man from Kangaroo" is a hie outdoor picti"" s . ; n which the back country of Australia provides the setting.of a drama cmite as thrilling as that "jniallv associated with ths frontiers of North America. "Sn n wy" Baker figures in the role of a snorting mrson, who doffs liis «IpH. e.nl garb in response 1 to the' cnll of tho -i-ibr ]Te lip'ris to run a gang of cattl" rustlers to earth, and is concerned in all manner of dramatic situations. '■ A feature of his acfng is his wonderful prowess in the saddK He also does some ereat sti'"t"'i'i fi"htiog. swimming, nnd shooting. Throughout 'The Man from Kangaroo'. 1 there runs a very human love storv, 's enrich"!! 'bv piueli good local rolonr tvnical of the vast onen spaces of Australia. Additional interest lent to the "ief-nre l>r reason of the fact that mnnv of the-inei-. dents nortraved are drawn from actual life in ilie CnmniomveiltK Tl, e fil*n vi-1 l;.p cpreened to-dav at li-lia. 2.25, 4..10, C.HS, and 8.40.

; EVERYBODY'S THEATO, "Tho Love TVfemler." wMcli is the bi? feature nl' Everybody's i l -' a hijrlilv entertaining story of snpipty ..life, and d-?als with a young married woman n-ho lia< to fight to hold lior lnisliand.