MAORILAND PICTURES.

Otaki Mail, 7 January 1920, Page 3

MAORILAND PICTURES.

L ~ i To-morrow “Mile a Minute Kendall” will be the star, and those wishI ing to see a film worthy of note should 1 attend. The acting throughout is firstclass, the scenery good, and the story well told. On Saturday “String Beans” will be the star. The story briefly is as follows: —Toby Watkins could write good poetry—according to Jean —-but, then, Jean was in love with Toby, and she may have been somewhat biassed in her opinion. Anyway, Tody’s uncle couhln’t see a doggoned tiling in Toby ’s verses, and so. after, a particularly, irate interi view with said uncle, Toby beat it to the winds of Sawbort and took a posii tion as subscription solicitor on the i “Sawbcrt Weekly Clarion.” But, this I job as a newspaper man was mixed up very queorly with a fake bean caiineri , scheme, an in the end it. took all of | Toby’s prowess as an athlete to overcome his enemies and win the girl he I loved. Charles Ray has a corking role J as Toby. j j “THE SENTIMENTAL BLOKE.” . j There comes to Otaki shortly quite ! a notable production in C. J. .Dennis’ ! pieturisation of bis world famous work, “The Sentimental Bloke,” in eight acts, presented under the direction of !E. ,T. Carroll. “The .sentimental Bloke.” was written by Mr Dennis with such" honest, sweetness and broad human appeal, such fidelity to all that is best in average life and experience that it promptly made a new record, und was just, as promptly pirated in America. The making of the film entailed tremendous cost and infinite taking of trouble for the makers of the film were determined at least to equal the best American standard of produc-' tion. The result is a filmed story of quite exceptional excellence. The poem is faithfully and comprehensively expressed, its situations and incidents being most graphically interpreted. There is a fine glow of reality in the picture and no lack of thrill. The “Bloke” takes individuality and character as human, and the dimpled Doreen Thus realised in the flesh is delicious and i dAir/ful “bit of go. ,Is.” It may be that such blokes and :• ch Doreens are

race, in actual experience, but V; .is claimed that whoever sees the picture will eordially agree that in that rarity there is matter for regret. Mr L. D. Austin has written special appropriate music for the production.