PALACE THEATRE

Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10304, 13 January 1927, Page 6

PALACE THEATRE

‘WINE OF YOUTH.”

King Vidor, the brilliant young Metro-Go Id\vy n director, is proving Idm self one of the most versatile of die Hollywood megaphone kings. His latest production “Wine of Youth,' commencing at to-day’s matinee at the Palace, a film version of Kachel Crother’s stage success, “Mary the Third,” is as highly original and entertaining as it is different from his previous productions. It is a story of modern youth, but it is free from the hokum and artificial jazz of the series of “youth” thrillers. Although the story is modern, it opens with two brief flash-backs, lrom which the stage title, “Mary The Third,” was taken. The first scene opens at a dance in j. 870. Mary the First is being wooed, and her choice of suitors —the romantic swain and the matter-of-fact, selfconfident youth—is shown, with the latter conquering. The picture then goes to 18117, with Mary the Second, daughter of Mary the hirst, being wooed in the same old New England house. Again she chooses the more aggressive suitor. The story proper opens then, in 1924, with Mary the Third, an up-to-date flapper, being pursued by the contrasting suitors. "Eleanor lioardman plays the three Marys in their youth. In the third, or modern episode. Eulalie Jensen is the mother and Gertrude Claire the grandmother. r l he two brief vignettes provide a wealth of leading men for Vidor’s production. James Morrison and Johnnie "Walker are the firstMarv’s suitors; Niles Welch and Creighton Hale arc the lovers in the second, and lien Lyon and "William Haines in the third.