AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 December 1924, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

NELLIE BRAMLEY COY. “IT J’AYS TO ADYI'VRTLSK." Mil- Inreieal j >!;i_v presented Ijv the ! Nellie Bramley Coy. ;it tile Princess '1 heat re last nipht, drew a crowded lion.sc>, many havinp to lie iMi ned away which in it.sc-1f was an evidence that it pays to advertise :..s tee Company did liberally in the "Onerdinn.‘’ Berimes the .staid business lelh of I lokitika who allow outside advertisers to scoop the cream of the I k til business will note the fact and as a ii>year resolution resolve to do a little adverti.sin.tr by way of experiment.

The play is of the order made familiar by ‘•Cet-l:ieh-(,)niek AV.uMinpford and is hriirht and breezy at every i urn. lull of the punch and po■ associated with these .American themes. The audieme was regaled with fun. full and plenty and the whole play much enjoyed. It was a very happy rein traduction of the Company .still headed by Nellie Crumley who has a charm of her own. and is deservedly popular in every part she port rays-- her happy personality rcarhinp over the footlights and pivinp pleasure to one and all. This favorite actress with an Australasian reputation, was east, as Alary Crny.xon, a typiste, who is cnuelit in the vertex of an advertising scheme to sell soap. All the world is superstitions. so to eateh the fancy of tlie public it is styled “Thirteen Soap, unlucky for dirt." Of course the clever advertisin'; sells the soap .-that is when then* is any to sell— and Ibis the plot of the play pnurtrays very musingly, An irate father (who is a soap niaker. hut an unbeliever in advertising) will not, assist his son will his: new enterprise till Mary and her confederates (the soil lSodncy and Ambrose the advertising expert) “pill it over” lather in a clever scene, 'lho.se associated with the leading lady in the play included the lullou inp, all doinp full justice to their parts, several of the characters heinp excellent Iv done:--‘•.lolni.son''. AVilli.ini AB-Cowan; “Conitesse do Ih-aurien”. Beryl Burraelonph ; “Rodney Martin". Heorpc Hewlett: “Cyrus .Marlin’". Arthur Cornell; Ambrose Beale’. Carl Bauson; “Marie", Sylvia McNair: “AYilliani Smith", dolin llrown: “.Miss Burke”, Kathryn Murie; “(leorec ABChesney”. Heoipe Bryant; “F.llery Clarke", dohn Midway ; “Charles Ilronsou". Huy IListin.es. The play was slatted very attractively. Ail the scenes were interiors, the scenery heinp briplit and Ircsh. and all sets very attractive. It was a play to enjoy very much, and the audience had a succession oi hearty hutph.s as the piny progressed. Incidental music of a particularly briplit character, .reprndueinp many popular nundiers, was sup; lied hv a very capable orchestra, which leatiired an expert rap; time player whose drums and other “extras" did niueh to enliven the pnneediups.

TO-NIHIIT. •• norcilT AND I’AII) KOI:.” To-niphl Saturday' the Company enntinue their season at the Crineess Theatre when "llouplil aird Paid For" will he presented. The lot is stnmply delined and durinply dealt with, while the characters are boldly drawn in with sure and incisive touches by the playw ri";ht. It open -, up a new viewpoint to men and women on Ihe nia 11 i i -| nc Ie >u aml l ’ 1 •I"" unlohlinp of the Mery. il reveals sonic sensationally dramatic episodes. Miss Nellie Bramley is the wenian in the iitle role, and Mr Huy I lasi ill' s ithe man in the ease, so two powerful portraitures can he expected, while Ihe suppoi tin; characters will have ex: client represen tat ion. SI'NDAV " ON .MONDAY. Oh Monday nip.hl, the season will close with ” fsunday.” a wholesome comedy-drama. It is a simple story of ileeii manly love ol lour roiipli mifulured miners lor the daughter ol their dead friend, interwoven with the pathetic and toueliinp picture of the a waken i up; in the heart ol the pill, pi-own to womanhood. The men tenderly shield “Sunday” (for that is Ihe pil l’s name) in the rouph lile of the far AYest. and when a plausible tourist plans to brinp about her ruin. Im meets with short shrift at their hands, ami is shot hv one of her puardiaiis. Then Sunday poos to live with a rich relative in Kuphiud. and falls in love with the dead hroiher. So tense eomplicatiiins arise, hill: the cml sees love triumphant. ’| he part of Sunday demands pi'eut versatility and capacity lor emotional aetinp. and Aliss Nellie Hramley in the role is said to he a sheer delipht. takinp the audience with her throuph the various phases of her lile. and sharinp with them all her joys and sorrows lill slm finally reaches the pual of happiness. The four miner? are splendid characters, who will appeal lo all. particularly Old Lively, who will he enacted by Mr Arthur Cornell. The plans are at Miss Macintosh sweet store. EVERYBODYS PICTURES, nnand doi'bi.i'. stab ! AYKDNKSDAY. Til his first Sfeeial production. Tom Mix, as the hero of ‘ Stift Boiled" lias undertaken to enter the actual comedy field for the first time in his varied career. The AYilliani Fox production, directed by J. H. Blystolie. tomes to t], o Princess Theatre, on AVcdnesday ln'xt and advance criticisms promise that, thousands of lauph.s will he the result. Tom Mix. the stern visaped westerner. hard-fisted. hanl-ridi up. abandons all tin's for horn-rimmed spectacles. a checkered suit and a job r.s shoe clerk. Kimble to lit a dainty pair of si inters on a tiny, silk-covered loot he recollects that he always pot a shoe on a horse by hanimorinp it. Tint liis method isn’t so pood in this ease. AYitli his eves on ankles and Ins mind decidedly not on his work, he lin-,-onseiouslv ties the slice of his cine customer to that of an anpular. cold-eyed woman in the adjoininp seat. The outcome is neither prneeful nor happy tor Tom Alix hut it sets the audience in an uproar. Erstwhile ran pier of steers Alix finds himself fondlinp n small lace liaiulkerhief. inhalinp ever and anon of its intoxicatinp Kilmne. That’s not so bad, until he diseoveis that lie has an audience eonsistinp ol hard-boiled, unsentimental pumhers. Then it’s not so pood. But the audience enjovs it. Ad.inp to fipht a dozen times, hut forced to control his tempei | ( »se an iuheritanee. ho refuses to speak to offenders, hut hands them no tes heppinp that they meet him

at :i stipulated lime al'icr he 1 1 :is controlled 1 1 iin sol T for tin l required thirty days, Through it all. Mis proves jliat consciously <i r not. In* is a natural coined ia n. “Soft Roiled’’ "ill l:r roconli'il as olio of llio most liiimoroiis productions over screened. not only because of tin* plot ami tlio support, tint primarily lieoanso of tin* iiniijiio charactor in which it plains Hie pugnacious Tom Mix. Anil, of oonrso, lie lias tlm clover support ol pretty Itillie Hole, alone \vill l his famous friend .and ]>al. Tonv. tlio wonder liorse. 1 lie seeoml big fenture in Weilne.silay s <1 is] >l :iy is a "special United Artists Feature entitle,! ‘‘.l’aiMy The .«exl Host Timm" in six hie reels with .Mae Marsh, f online ~n Thursday next ‘T,undue Sands" .starring Wanda Hawley ami Milton sills, a Sequel to “The Sheiks’