THE PICTURE HOUSES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 2 December 1927, Page 3

THE PICTURE HOUSES

COSY DE LUXE.

Sally O’Neill will be seen to-night at the Cosy for the last time in ‘.Becky,” a story teeming with the colour and glamour of life in a great metropolis. In the title role, Miss O'Neil portrays the part of a young and beautiful girl who climbs from the bargain basement of a great store ko be the sensation of a revcuo on Broadway, and has never appeared more winsome or lovable. “Becky” is a swiftly moving drama, teeming with the colour, glamour, and thrills of city life. It affords an intimate glimpse into the lives of shop girls. Sally has in the supporting cast OuVi Moore, Gertrude Olmsted, Mack Swain and Harry Crocker Matinee Attraction.

“Wings of the Storm, 1 Fox Films great dog cinema scheuuled tor showing at the Cosy on Saturday, is probably the most lascinating story of its type that has ever been picturised. Thunder, the ceiebrateu police dog star, is featured. The photoplay centres about Thunder, nlio is tile runt of a litter of puppies born to a blue-ribbon winner in the kennels of Anita Baker, a noted sportswoman. The action of the story unfolds the character development, as well as the physical development or the weakling, alter he goes into tho forests. MUNICIPAL. “Mons,’’ to be shown at the Municipal Theatre for the final time to-night, gaves a fuller realisation of the stupendous effort of the mere handful who defended their nation's pride against, the flower of the Kaiser’s army. The epic traces in perfect sequence the first skirmish, early field fighting, air peril, the heroism of the gunners, the initial British victory at the Mons engagement and the subsequent retreat before overwhelming odds, exhausted troops unable to retreat further lying down to fight, the splendid spirit of discipline always retained, and finally the tide stemmed at the walls of Paris, and the commencement of the great advance which resulted in ultimate victory for the Allied arms.- The picture is a complete graphic record of the darkest days of 1914. and is a triumph for British thoroughness in production. Bombardier A. G. Jenkins, of the Royal Horse Artillery, who accompanies the picture, and briefly recounts the story during the unfolding of the film, had the distinction of firing the first British shell during the war at Binche, near Mons, 1914. Saturday Programme.

Pete Morrison, holder of many rodeo championships, and acknowledged as one of the best riders in America, is the star of “The Desperate Game,” the Universal release which comes to the Municipal Theatre to-morrow. “The Desperate Game” is the fourth of Morrison’s popular pictures. Lightning, the horse, Duke, the dog, and Thunder the mule, Pete Morrison’s trained trio of animals, appear in “Tho Desperate Game.” The serial. Chapter' 8 is also shown.