AMUSEMENTS.

Grey River Argus, 22 February 1927, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS.

OPERA HOUSE—TO-NIGHT. DOUBLE STAR PROGRAMME. “SKINNER’S DRESS SUIT,” AND I “TROUBLE WITH WIVES.” I With the market surfeited with so j called ‘‘polite comedies” it is a relief to find one really worth while. Such a picture is “Skinner’s Dress Suit” a Universal-Jewel which is to be screened to-night at the Opera House for the last time. It tells the story of Skinner and “Honey” his wife. He is an underpaid clerk while she, loving him madly, can think of him only as a power in the business world. Through his wife’s con stant importunity, Skinner finally plucks up courage to ask his employe" for an increase in salary. He tells his wife he got ten dollars rise and she makes him buy a dress suit. That begets further expense for accessories They begin to be invited around. They must take dancing lessons. New furniture is necessary, a radio and other things. That’s when the fun begins. Poof Skinner is hounded by his credi tors. It would be a shame to spoil the climax of the picture by divulging it Reginald Denny is ideally cast as the hapless Skinner. Sweet Laura La Plante id perfect as “Honey”. The cast includes Ben Hendricks Jr E. J. Ratcliffe Arthur Lake, Hedda Hopper, Lionel Brahm, Betty Morrissey, Henry A. Barrow, William 11. Strauss, Lila Leslie, Broderick O’Farrell, Lucille Ward, Lucille de Nevier and Frona Hale. ‘ ‘ TROUBLE WITH WIVES. ’ ’

You Come home from business with an old college chum. While eating dinner with the little woman, he mentions in a casual tone that you and he lunch ed with a pretty little shoe designer. Wifey picks up the cue and launches into a tirade on the trouble with husbands. She accuses you of so much interest in the other woman that you forgot to bring home her watch from the jeweller. Vehemently you deny it, saying it’s at the shop. Then you go to get it, only to discover that you’ve left it at the other girl’s apartment. After it you go, to have the other girl fake a sprained ankle and faint in your arms. The effects of your little jaunt show all tod plainly—two lip prints on your collar, perfume that insists on clinging, etc. That settles it—and you as well. Imagine all this and you have a pretty good idea of how Tom Moore must feel when his wife discovers him in just such a predicament in the Paramount picture “ Trouble' With Wives,” which will be shown at the Opera House to-night. The story is directed by Malcolm St. Clair. Flor ence Vidor is the wife, Esther Ralston is the shoe designer, and Fold Sterling of comedy fame, is the blundering college chum. All are featured. WEDNESDAY. “THE BEAUTIFUL CITY.” The majority- of authors, when writing a story of New York life, invariably 1 laced their settings in the mansions of the millionaires, neglecting entirely “the other half” of the city’s big population. That genuine drama can be spun without a luxurious background is proved by “The Beautiful City,” a First' National picture starring Richard Barthehness, which is to be shown at the Opera House on Wednesday, matinee and night. The story, written bv Edmund Goulding, is laid in the famous “East Side”—that thick forest of tenements where grass and flowers are unknown in their natural state and where limousines never traverse the streets. The loves and hates of these victims ol social order constitute one of the strongest dramas ever penned, the hero being Tony Gillardi, a flower seller, who is animated by- one great ambition-—to have a store of his own, so that he can marry- his Irish sweetheart, Mollie. But he has many a hard struggle and unwelcome adventure before his dream comes true.

Dorothy Gish and William Powell arc in the cast of this picture, which was directed by Kenneth Webb and present ed by Inspiration pictures.