THE PICTURE HOUSES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 17 November 1927, Page 9

THE PICTURE HOUSES

MUNICIPAL. The tale of Don Juan has intrigued almost the whole world since the Spanish monk, Gabriel Tellez (15701618) wrote the original Don Juan story, with the idea of painting a moral in favour of the spiritual life. His story, “El Burlador de Sevilla” (The Deceiver of Seville), concerns one Don Juan Tenorio, enemy of God, who lived a life of luxury during the reign of Peter the Cruel. Attempting to abduct Giralda, the beautiful daughter of the Governor of Seville, Don Juan is challenged by her father. In a duel, the father is killed. Some time after, on the way to a banquet, Don Juan passes the cemetery where the murdered man rests under a marble statue. The youth mockingly invites the statue to accompany him to the feast. The statue comes to life, confronts the unrepentent Don Juan, and. as agent of an offended Deity, commits the traducer to the flames of everlasting hell. John Barrymore, in the title role of the film version of the tale, has achieved the outstanding triumph of his screen career; a rich, warm, dazzling embodiment of the greatest of all great lovers. The ladies upon whom his love is lavished include: Mary Astor, Estelle Ta ? lor, Jane Winton, Helena d’Algy, Myrna Loy, Helee Costello. Helen Lee Worthing, Hedda Hopper, Phyllis Haver and June Marlowe. Others in the cast are John Roche, Einilv Fitzroy, Sheldon Lewis. Montagu Love, Willard Louis, Warner Olcid, Josef Swickard and Nigel de Bruhc”. The big spectacle was directed by <Uan Crosland. COSY DE LUXE. Just how much harm and grief can be brought into the lives of innocent people by that evil serpent, scandal, is illustrated in “Captain Salvation.” the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture at the Cosy Theatre. Tt is a highly dramatic story of the sea, taken from the popular novel by Frederick William Wallace, in which some village gossips start a series of dramatic events that work up (o a spectacular climax. The exceptionally strong cast in “Captain Salvation’’ includes Lars Hanson, famous Swedish star, in the masculine load, Ernest Torrance, Marceline Day, George Fawcett. Pauline Starke, and Flora Finch. A supporting programme of comedies and a gazette is also screened.