TO VISIT WANGANUI

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19721, 11 December 1926, Page 15 (Supplement)

TO VISIT WANGANUI

MISS WELLINGTON AND MISS AUCKLAND. THE UNPLACED BEAUTY FINALISTS. Friday and Saturday have been pencilled iu by the manager of His Majesty’s Theatre, Mr H. Williams, for the appearance of Miss Auckland (Miss Sutherland) and Miss Wellington (Miss D. McCubbin) together with their maids of honour. A fine film showing Miss New Zea land (Miss Thelma McMillan, Dunedin) and her maid of honour (Miss Isobei Wilson, Wellington), and the other finalists will also be screened.

NEW RELEASES METRO-GOLDW YN PICTURES. BETTER THAN EVER. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer will release earlv in the New Year, pictures which arc said to be even bigger and better than those released by this company during 1926. The first of these pictures is “The Barrier” a powerful Bex Beach story which is to be the New Year’s attraction at “The Regent. ’ This picture will be followed by “The Blackbird” with Lon Chaney, and ‘Brown of Havard’’ a strong pictuie of College Days. Norma Shearer un i Conrad Nagel in “The Waning Sox. Buster Keaton in ‘Battling Butler” are also scheduled for early presentatin. This company will also release the following super-productions which have already set a new standard in motion picture production. “Mtare Nostrum” (Our Sea) with Alice Terry and Antonio Moreno, directed by Rex Ingram. “The Big Parade” with John Gilbert and Renee Adoree, Lillian Gish in “The Scarlet Letter” and later on “The Merry Widow” with John Gilbert and Mae Murray, land the greatest of all great pictures “Ben Hur.”