PALACE THEATRE.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXI, Issue 9846, 27 October 1924, Page 3

PALACE THEATRE.

THOMAS MFTGHAN IN “PIED PIPER MALONE.” CLARA KIMBALL YOUNG TNT “CORDELIA THE MAGNIFTOENT/’

Tlie rew programme shown at t'no Palnc-e Theatre on Saturday is absolutely the finest picture programme that has been submitted to Gisborne audiences. Every picture, on the bill lias a charm all its own. 'The two leading attraction's, Thomas Meighan in. “Pied P'per Malone,” with Lois Wi’son heading a tremendous cast, and Clara Kimball Yeung in “Cordelia the Magnificent,’” with Bluntly Gordon, Jacquelin Gadson, Lewis Dayton and many other great favorites, are pictures that will be long remembered. for their dramatic power and beauty. UPied Piper Malone” is a sea captain, the hero of the kiddies in and out of port. The characters in the play are true to life and tbe story is full of incident. Tt is difficult to pick out the most impressive scene in the play, as every scene is so gripping, and every climax startinglv dramatic. Tlie story sweeps on with a speed that carries everyone along. breathlessly interested. The pathos and the laughter are superbly blended, and the ’.ova element is sweetly unfolded. “Cornelia. The Magnificent” shows Clara Kimball Young at her most dramatic, Bluntly Gordon is another fine performer, while now stars are discovered- in Lewis Dayton and Jacqueline Logan. The story concerns Cordelia .Marlowe, one of the richest of the wealthy New York idlers. But a sudden stroke of ill luck, caused through foolish speculations on the part of licr mother, leaves them almost penniless, Cordelia decides to seek some aver.no “ employment. An advertisement is circulated amongst the leading papers arid a firm of lawyers send for the advertiser, and after explaining just -what she was needed to do, tho g’l l beeamo a new kind of detect vc. 1 > ie working out «f the plot keeps everyone tensely interested. The end cn the drama is a complete surpr-se, anti a happy one.