ENTERTAINMENTS

Southland Times, Issue 18824, 18 May 1920, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

MUNICIPAL THEATRE. ART UNION DRAWING TO-NIGHT. By special arrangement with the management of the Civic Pictures, the drawing of the Great Dominion Fair Art Union will take place in the Municipal Theatre to-night when a very fine pictorial and musical programme will be presented. The Dominion Band will play outside the Theatre at 6.45 p.m., and the entertainment commences at 7.15 sharp. For the guidance of everyone, tlie times of the various items are set out in the advertising columns. The first item is a very clever Mutt and Jeff cartoon; then follow the famous Lee Kids in the big Fox drama, “Doing their Bit.” This,will be their last appearance in a picture which contains much humour and real dramatic thrills. The next picture is the great drama entitled "Lawless Love,” starring the beautiful Jewel Carmen, which will be screened to-night only. It is a grand story of life in the Great West. Fine feathers make fine birds, but Jewel Carmen in “Lawless Love” finds that a bandit who turns straight for love is a better man than her dancing partner in his Broadway clothes. The remainder of the evening is devoted to a fine musical entertainment and the art union drawing. Messrs Stanley Hall, baritone, Bud Wills, New Zealand champion cornetist, B. C. Galloway, mandolinist, and Trist Searell, humorist, will render items, and these talented artists will undoubtedly meet with a good reception Seats may be booked at Begg’e music shop, otherwise an early attendance is advisable, as £. big house is confidently anticipated. THREE BIG STARS AT THE CIVIC TO-MORROW. Another powerful triple-feature Paramount programme has been secured for tomorrow night by the Civic' management, and will be screened in the Municipal Theatre at 7.15 p.m. Besides good supporting items, Wallace Reid will be seen in the star feature “The Love Burglar” and Enid Bennett is the star in the second feature “The Haunted Bedroom.” Both pictures are said to be excellent in every respect. In > addition, another screamingly funny Sennett 1 comedy is included, entitled “No Mother to Him,” which is claimed to keep the hoerje in a continuous roar of laughter for 30 minutes.

POPULAR PICTURE PALACE, Intending patrons are advised of the final screening to-night of the magnificent Swedish six-part drama “The Flame of Life,” and beautiful supporting series, including "How Motor Cycles are Made” and a two-reel drama "The Catspaw.” The star feature “The Flame of Life” contains one of the biggest thrills and most daring of feats ever presented in pictures, namely, a man shooting the raging rapids standing on a single log. The Japanese actor Sissue Hayakawa is announced for the change to-morrow night in “Bonds of Honour.”

ALBION THEATRE,

CLARA KIMBALL YOUNG. Another large and highly delighted audience viewed the second screenings of the Clara Kimball Young super-feature and mammoth supporting programme at the Albion last evening. Anyone would enjoy this story of heart throbs and romance and will sympathise with the baronet and smile with the pretty girl whose lovable nature wins one of the biggest battles of life, “the Battle for love and devotion.” The Prince’s visit to Rotorua should not be missed by anyone, being thoroughly typical of the true Maori welcome, with hale us, poi dances, marches, etc. Westland (No. 2 series) depicts more scenes of this land of scenic beauty. “Getting Gay with Neptune” is an instructive picture. The concluding items of the programme are the latest Rathe and World Gazettes;, with the latest episode of “The Man of Might.” Special music is rendered by the Albion orchestra. Intending patrons are reminded that the programme commences at 7.15 to-night only, there being one programme only screened till 10 o’clock. IMPORTANT WILLIAMSON PRODUCTION.

I “ LIGHTNIN’.” John D. O’Hara, the new Amoriean I comedian who so vividly creates the char- ! acter of Lightnin’ Bill Jones (writes the .Sydney Morning Herald), in his gentle ! pathos, the refinement of his humour and 1 the penetrative sweetness of his absentj minded smile, ia perhaps the most artistic 1 and certainly most lovable stage personage that has yet appeared in Australia. “Lightnin" ” is a fine play well done by a number of excellent artists. “Lightnin’ ” will be presented on Friday next at 8 o’clock. The box [Jans will be opened at the Bristol this morning. Winchell Smith nearly always collaborates, and in this instance he has been allied with Frank Bacon in a comedy in which 24 -artists figure in the cast, involving consummate stagecraft. There are four pairs of lovers, married and single: a complicated legal plot connected with the removal of timber from an estate claimed by the Pacific Railway; and the : amusingly vain attempts of a furious, wood-en-headed sheriff to arrest the hero for this alleged act of malfeasance. There is, further, the frivolous assemblage of the Reno divorce brigade at an hotel, one booking office of which is in California, and the i other in Nevada, so that fashionable wives , may truthfully assure their friends they are j holiday-making in the former State, whilst j really qualifying to “change their state” at 1 the Nevada courthouse. The play reaches | its climax in a long and clever scene of ■ mirthful comedy and tense emotion at the 1 Divorce Court, where a gentlemanly and I authoritative judge of frolicsome disposi- | tion in private life grants a divorce to an I all-conquering stage beauty after discreetly flirtatious passages, which convulse the audience. The same legal luminary then dispenses justice in a dramatic scene in which the hero, apparently an unqualified law student of forensic genius, carries all before him by the power of cross-examination, and even makes eloquent love to his own sweetheart whilst affecting to put her to the rack in the interests of his client. The fun is not allowed to flag in the last act. A great deal of laughter arises from the return of the Judge and the beauty upon hasty marriage after the briefest acquaintance, and their mutual desire to keep the fact a secret from the other visitors. Unfortunately “marriage, though it have no tongue, will speak with most miraculous organ,” and the fond lawyer cannot restrain if he would the lavish endearments of the twice-married bride, not to mention his wrath at being assigned “Room No. 2!'