ON THE SCREEN.

Matamata Record, Volume VI, Issue 475, 27 September 1923, Page 2

ON THE SCREEN.

" FOOLISH WIVES." TO-MORROW NIGHT'S SPECIAL. More than .020,000 feet of film were exposed during the making of " Foolish Wives,"' the million dollar picture coming to the Town Hall to-morrow (Friday) night. It would take sixtyfour hours, oi' almost three days and three nights, to show such a length of film at the rate of speed to which moving picture patrons are accustomed. Therefore, Universal has trimmed the picture, using only the best parts of it, to 10,000 ft, which takes about two hours. Tt took Erich von Stroheim and his comppny exactly twelve months to photograph the picture. Cutting and editing it to the desired brevity took an additional six months.

I ' "TROOPER O'NEIL." '■ Charles Jones will feature in a stirring tale of the great outdoors, and the Canadian N.W. Mounted Police., entiled " Trooper O'Neil," to ho screened on Saturday night. Trooper O'Neil, resolving to forget the girl who has refused him, arrives at the police headquarters of the Royal Mounted and receives orders to find the man who lulled -Tacob Dell. The bullet, shows that it was fired from an old-fashioned gun. Meanwhile Marie is mourning over the loss of her sister, who died because of .Tficob Dell's cruelly and neglect. Her brother and her sister's sweetheart, Pierre, swear vengeance, and Dell's ' death follows soon after. O'Neil falls in love with Maire, but suspects her friend, Pierre, of murder. He is shocked to discover that all evidence points, instead, to Marie. He arrests her and she refuses to answer the charge. They are overtaken by Pierre, who' falls after a fight with O'Neill, and dying, confesses that he shot Dell. O'Neill reports soon after al, headquarters and introduces his wife (o the captain. !