ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5028, 17 September 1926, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

GAIETY THEATRE PICTURES. TO-NIGHT. LORD JIM. The screen version of Joseph Conrad’s famous nov«i “Lord Jim,” which is to be shown to-night, is replete with spectacular scenes. A crash between a picquet boat and a tugboat, the sinking of a tramp steamer at sea with eight hundred passengers Aboard, the, battle between hundreds of cop-per-coloured savages and a handful of white men—all these episodes are thrillingly recorded by the camera. The chief emphasis of the picture, however, is laid upon the striking story which shows thei battle of a brave man against a, thousand odds to prove he is not a coward. Percy Marmont plays the part of Lord Jim. SATURDAY NIGHT. THE LADY WHO LIED. Tense, terse, thrilling—here is stark drama, stark as the desert against which some of the scenes are pitched, yet smouldering with a passion akin to the blistering sun that he,ats the sands. Th at’is "The Lady Who Lied,” to be screened to-morrow night. A glamorous carnival scene, with a background of thei Grand Canal of Venice, alive with gondolas, is another example of the lavish scaje and the realistic reproduction of localities in this film. '*•*.