EVERYBODY’S THEATRE

Gisborne Times, Volume LXI, Issue 9848, 29 October 1924, Page 3

EVERYBODY’S THEATRE

“ANNA CHRISTIE” AND LARRY SEMON SUTE-R-COIvIEDY. : BIG HOLIDAY BILL. In. all the history of motion pictures, no mightier scene ever has been screened than the “crux” scene of “Anna Christie,’ showing at Everybody’s matinee to-day. Adapted from Eugene O’Neill’s successful stage play, it portrays a girl; deserted in childhood by her father, who thinks lie is helping her by sending her far from the influence of the sea which ho fears, trapped into a confession of the life, into which her father’s spuvniug of responsibility forced her. When she tells her father, who thinks her a lovely Madonna, and her sweetheart, who lias fallen in love with her “because she is the first decent woman he ever has known,” just what she has-been, the scene works lip to a dramatic fury almost unbearable in its intensity. Blanche Sweet, George Marion and"'William Russell are the . actors in the powerful sequence. If it hurts you to laugh, you had better see the doctor before seeing Larry Semon in “The Gown Shop.” Tis master comedy leaves nothing to he desired in the way of excellent comic stunts', good acting, and elaborate settings. Larry Semon comes back again with a whole bunch of new tricks, including a young crocodile which will bite the plumpest ankles among the ladies. ... There is no doubt that Semon appears at his best in- these two reels of fun. “A Cattle Station in New South Wales,” educational Interest, the “Last of the Bison,” travelogue. English and Pa the Gazettes will he shown.