THE PICTURE HOUSES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 10 December 1927, Page 7

THE PICTURE HOUSES

MUNICIPAL. ‘‘Love’s Greatest Mistake,” which opened this afternoon at the Municipal Theatre, is one more production lor Paramount to boast of- For this story utilizes all of the screen artistry developed since the motion picture had its conception. A line cast and a line story combine with remarkably intelligent direction and unique camera effects to make this one of the outstanding pictures of the year. Evelyn Brent and William Powell form a combination lor any casting director to tie proud of. The one offsets the other. Miss Brent is a girl with a lace sympa...,!u< to toe delicate shades of emotion. The unusual quality of lier work was first to be noticed in “Love ’Em and Leave Em.” In “Love’s Greatest Mistake,” she admirably interprets the role of Jane, the flighty married sister of Honey McNeil, the heroine

I (Josephine Dunn). Powell plays Don Kendall, the would-be blackmailer I with catholic tastes in everything. • The serial and many minor support i are also shown. cost DE LUNE. j “Marriage,” a subtle study ol‘ I matrimony, adapted from the widely I discussed novel by H. G. Wells,opens i at the Cosy Theatre to-night/ V'ir- ; ginia Valh is. cast in the leading role , as the realistic yotteig wife ol the • idealistic inventor she laces the proI Idem ol choosing between her lius- ' band and her desire for wealth and ■ social position. Their marriage is s almost wrecked as a result, but the 1 realization that her husband means | more than the material things of lite saves the situation and they are reunited after a thrilling adventure which brings them both face to face with the rock bottom facts of life. Of an entirely different genre is the support, “Down the Straight.” This is a sporting tale which advance reports state to be rather different from the usual. These pictures are apt to tend towards melodrama, but this steers clear of it. Otis i I .clan is in the cast, so humour is assured.