AMUSEMENTS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 12 April 1926, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

“ONE GLORIOUS MM GUT.” AT THEATRIC ROYAL. The story of a woman’s insistence on her. natural rights and the si< 11ficc she made for them, is the theme of the Master production, One 'Molinas Might.” screened at the IhcatiRnval on Saturday evening. .1 he plot dees not involve a “sex story, but a plain portrayal of the case in u Inch, a voung girl finds that case and luxury and wealth have their own price; a price which she would not pay. Lho store concerns -May Stevens, whom , liiiture Inis endowed with a fine appreciation for life’s refinements, and Kenneth McLain, a young draughtsmen All about May are evidences of' poverty. All of it so disgusts her that when Kent, who. has been hguiing it out oil impel’, decides that tiny crin trot married at once, she jvnises. While out oil a ride un a roller coaster at the beach the car in which tiny arc riding crashes over the side into the water below. May is picked up and taken aboard the yacht of Uliesiei James, U ymmg lawyer, while Keull'til is sent to hospital. Eventually Chester ami May arc married . mwi Chester’s mother, who had lugliet ambitions for her son, if rsnpprovos. Mter thev have returned, Mrs Janu.s dictates the coming and going ot t wliole family, and May leiucs the Lome Mav is absolutely penniless mid in the maternity hnspiud when Kenneth comes hack to the bmmhnK house, having become a mil mini e with the success of an od i' 1 ; 1 • 1 j to adopt the child which 51 S has had to sign away because, she wanted it to have a chance n J W Mav docs not know who has adopted her daughter, and is heartbroken when |!,,, v take the child away I rum her. Un Christmas Eve. five years later, Heureth while driving through the pool part of the city, secs a woman fall in the snow, and stopping to tr> aiuT do something for her, buds May. A happv rcconcrintion is pleasingly portraveil in the final close up. .- '» ports include the latest edition of tlu “Bathe Gazette,' a new episode ot “Samson of the Circus,’ a popoja' .\csop fable entitled “When Vi inter C„m's, I'he Urban Chats,” and a verv amusing Hiumark comedy entitled “Slippery Husbands.”

“MIGHT LIFE OF NEW YORK.”*

FEATURING DOROTHY GISH

\l„|,t life in Nmv Volk undoubt...m 'Lit. .. ■■“- d'rri.u'c"scenario writers, and ui D>' |j Lnskv ]iroduction ol that nanre s < ■it 1 he Grand Theatre on Saturday idgilu the night Hie. of L b ;>u " town is iiudeuialily presented in u . picturesque form Dorothy . G slii. . J* ! lho telrphone girl, is !>ruv t ' , ’ 1 soteiidid mV. which is cell: inly niauc ' '.1,:.' most of in O!H>S feet ol very e„- . Lerlaii.ing film. Worried a j join. ” escapades of his son Ronald, Jin Beniicv semis flic hoy to NcvV o H • ’ first planning with a Inond m Men I r to <"’tlho I,OV into as ninny ! sV ,;,.s so that he Will JO ; , ,it lo return home and settle i I,;;:: 1 ;, Ronald's lirst ..‘'ventm-e lu.p- ---: pens wh.cn he meets M>’g > > ,1,; >; b' :1 l '%, l, ;:,:;;:-s' ,i 'jhrr; v,, !:nd' ,l,l w’g" i '.’'’’(Ver a 11 era aids Uroinc implicated !;, !. !eu ei robbery, ami . Ronald, who

later joins up with them, is also suspected, and afterwards arrested. Through the agency of Meg, Mr Bentley is acquainted with the latest deivolyipmcnts, and promises immunity to her brother if lie will return the jewels. However, before this is accomplished Jimmy is killed by Jerry, who is arrested and Itonald released. Ronald, thoroughly cured of New York, is prepared to return home, especially so when Meg consents to return with him. Supporting .Dorothy Gish is ltod La Roeque, in the leading juvenile role, who provides a splendid impersonation of the wild boy Irani lowa, who is sent to Mew fork to bo taint'd. A Gazette, a travel lilm, “Children of the Balkans,’’ , and a Christie comedy entitled “Don’t l’ineli,” concludes a very enjoyable programme.

51UGHT AMD BREEZY. English futurist*. Under the above heading, the Christchurch “Sun” says: —Away dull cure! j Nobody, not even a schoolboy with his j Latin .homework unprepared, could 1 near a worried frown l'or five minutes alter the English Futurists Company has begun its hour and a halt of trolie and merriment, at the Crystal .Palace Theatre. Business worries, domestic troubles, and the. depression induced by the servant problem, are dispelled like magic. Christchurch theatregoers have, taken the Cabaret .Kittens to their hearts, and last evening, when the compilin' began its second week at (Vestal-Palace, the theatre'was packed long tie I ore the programme was timed to open. “House full' was the telephone exchange operators’ laconic reply round about 0. 10, when late srathookers asked for the theatre. (110 secret of tho success of the l! ".J; 11 ,"'’,, is their originality, with a capital U. From item to item, sketc.i to sketch, the show jazzes along without a break in the continuity, and .the audience, just keeps on laughing. “W ill Winnie wed Walter?” asks Cyril Northrote ol Ira Love, otherwise Winnie,” in a bright litt e ske.eliettf, in which every word used bc<'>J:s yw the letter W. Hm audience often wondered how one ol the. many questions asked by the characters the piece was to he answered by,.l ' In ‘'■inning with W, hut the. difficulty was always met, usually m “ ""‘’’mm wav. Onc ol the gems ot the out - tiunment is -.Memories ol the old Crinoline Days. in which ‘ « hocking, tuneful singing and a ■ * ■ V ” fill ballet, combine m a way too >- *d " met with. But tor the H'”elt>, t m “.Moonlight and Roses’ ni.rm. balk t would he liard to l.eat. ; m, hi ethren. There are■ new' .o* U iUld IKVA jhliuto ‘ • I kroiigh—and talking ol . dane - b S 3 ability: 1 Wednesdav I'mrThursdav? 14th ’and Ihth April., with a change Os"'a!id tlu! 'box''plan N iiow’open at, U,e Bristol.