AMUSEMENTS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, 18 May 1925, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS.

GRAND THEATRE. A FINE RILL. An excellent liill was submitted at 'the Grand Theatre on Saturday mgli. to a large and appreciative house. The salient picture is “The Story Without a Name,” a Paramount production, unfolding a novel story. There is an abundance of incident well as a touch of wholesome romance in the story, which i 3 of an in* ventor experimenting with a "death ray” operated by wireless. He and the lady with whom he is in love fall into the hands of a gang who wish to secure the secret. The young man is placed on an island and instructed to work on his invention, hut ,is warned against sending out an 5.0.5., and the lady is held captive on a vessel engaged in the rum-run-ning business. Through the closing of all stations to enable the broadcasting of a Presidential speech, the inventor is able to make his plight and position known, but he does not escape until many difficulties and. dangers have been overcome. .Antonio Moreno has been assigned the chief part, and he gives entire satisfaction, as does Agnes Ayres, playing opposite him. Others in the cast play their parts very creditably. The supports include the American Gazette, a fine educational “Life on an Australian Poultry Farm,” and a laughable Jimmy Aubrey comedy “The Buttinsky.” Pleasing music was contributed by the Grand Orchestra.

“THE BELOVED CHEATER.” A SPECIAL PRODUCTION.

The unreeling of “The Beloved Cheater” at the Theatre Royal on Saturday night, this fine drama of high society providing something special in the way of entertainment. Bruce Sands (Lew Cody) is the idol of the “deadlier sex,” the sort with whom men make friends in self defence—or at the dictati in of their wives. He is the sort who can’t help making love to every girl he meets, but always remains a bachelor. Then there is “the girl” ivho becomes engaged without changing her ideas against kissing, and her fiancee who is foolish enough to promise to respect her wishes. The real romance of the girl’s life commences when she is kissed and she discovers that it was not her fiance who kissed her. Of course she does find the man only to lose him, for the “Beloved Cheater” refuses to let her sacrifice her happiness by marrying a man of his'type. Low Cody has never nad such an opportunity to display his, versatility, and the production i-i remarkably produced under the master hand of Wm. Christy Cabanne. The cast is a remarkably clever one, including Eileen Percy, Doris Pawn, Jack Mower, Alice Fleming, Frederick Vroom and Andrew' Robeson. Lavish scenes and settings abound in this picture and help to make it a notable one.

The supporting pictures, though none are required, include a Path'; News, a Pathe Review, and a comedy, “The Firefighters,” featuring the irresistible "Our Gang.” . The Royal Orchestra, under the direction of Mrs Agnes Scott, further, enhanced its-reputatiorf with a programme of approximate music.