AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 April 1928, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS PICTURES. ” THE SHOW ’’--TO-NIGHT. Lionel Rarrymore, playing the owner and principal performer of a magic show, is daily reverting to old days on the stage, when he knew and was a friend of the greatest of all magicians, Alexander Herrmann. When the actor does the “ decapitation trick ’ in his latest screen role, that of a magician in Ihe Show,” coming to the Princess Theatre to-night with Renee Adoree and John Gilbert, in the leading roles, he is doing it just like Herrmann used to in days long past. This was disclosed during the filming of the picture which lot! Drowning directed for -Me fro-Gold wyn-.Mayer. Rarrymore, as the oil nor ol a Rndapcst magic show, "decapitates ” Gilbert in the replica of the famous " beheading ” illusion. When he started the trick Bi 'UUIIiIIR suggested thaL he read a hook on magic to learn the modus operaudi. "Oh —I learned it from the inventor,” said Rarrymore. “ I have seen Herrmann rehearse it several times.” Taking the scimitar oi the illusion, he proceeded to imitate the Great I lorrinami with remarkable ability. " You've got him

1 know J leiTiiinnii, too,'’ said Browning. 1 lie now picture is a vivid romance of the Budapest underworld, much of the action taking place in a “ l’alace of Illusions,” or sideshow of magic, in which Gilbert plays the barker and magician’s assistant'. Harry more plays the owner of the show and Renee Adoree the heroine, a Salome dancer. Director Drowning, famous for his mystery films, among them "The Mystic,” “The Unholy Three,” and ” The Road to .Mandalay,” has achieved the finest production oi iiis career in " The Show.” which contains not only mystery hut much romance and quantities of genuine dramatic interest.