AMUSEMENTS.

Wairarapa Age, 22 March 1920, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS.

THE PARAMOUNT.

TWO BIG FEATURES. | Bessie Love is the star in "The Dawn of Understanding" at the Paramount to-night. The story is a quaint romance, colourful of the West in the gold days, of pathos and near tragedy, and relieved by touches of light comedy, so typical of Bret Harte stories. There is action always, and near tragedy, a combination that commands and holds the interest of all. There is.pictured first, with consummate skilly a caravan of priprie waggons crossing the plains in the days of '49, carrying Sue and her parents. Then the hermit ranch of Ira Beasley, by itself a part from Bolinas Plains, where Sue's mother dies, and she is left by her father to Ira, and remains with the uncouth man, not because she cares for himj but because she has come to loathe her father, Ira loves her, but is too shy to speak. Then is pictured Sue, the loneliest picture in all the vast Westerns plains, doomed to drudge hen life away. And then the one brief romance in her pathetic a fleeting glimpse at what she imagines love might be. She gives refuge to a circus acrobat fleeing the sheriff, and yields to his im-! portunities to elope, but Fate inter- j poses, a tragedy is narrowly averted, ] and Sue's romance opens -oufe into a happy union with the man who loves her. William Farnum will be eeen as the star in the big melodrama ''True Blue.'-'" . /

THE COSY.

Tho main attraction at the Gosy tonight is a snappy Goldwyn comedy with Madge Kennedy delightf ill in the heading role. Light, gay, and amusing "Through the Wrong 'Door," is frankly composed and produced to ohase dull care away, and it is so well interpreted by Madge Kennedy and tho cast in general that the effect is a very pleasant one. Miss, Kennedy acts' in a most nppealing,manner, particularly during the love She softens and beautifies by some very i fine acting the role of a bright young 1 girl who throws over her fiance and elopes with a man she scarcely knows. In the new dignity of one who sympathises with the man her own father has deliberately tried to ruin, whom she is assisting to achieve natural jus-1 tice, she plays the part so convincingly that the sudden change of mind and heart is not only excused but approved most cordially. John Bowers, in 'suport, is manly and effective, and the remainder of the cast is admirably typed. A gloom-chasing comedy without a dull moment, "Through the Wrong Door." "Her First Kiss" is another rippling Sunshine comedy that will provoke roars oir fun. A strong supporting, programme has been arranged. ;<, |