THE PICTURE HOUSES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 210, 23 August 1929, Page 9

THE PICTURE HOUSES

COSY DE LUXE. Taking the most dramatic chapter in modern history as a background and depicting the overthrow of an ancient civilisation, by the onrushing hordes of a new era of progress, was the monster task accomplished in filming “Tide of Empire,” Peter B. Kyne’s epochal story of the “Days of ’49,” at the Cosy Theatre. The picture also reveals a glorious love theme intertwined with the struggles of the California Argonauts in their mad chase for gold and adventure in the Sierra mountains. Renee Adores, as the Spanish heroine, Josephita, and George Duryea, as the Irish hero, Derry D’Arcy, and the rest of the cast have been excellently chosen. Matinee Attraction.

Cast as Cyril Reade in “Prep and Pep,” Dave Rollins plays the role of a quiet, well-mannered boy who is forced to live up to his father’s reputation as the school’s greatest athlete. This takes the plot through a series of incidents of prep school days, with lovely Nancy Drexel as his girl friend and John Darrow as the rival.

MUNICIPAL MATINEE. Francis X. Bushman, Jr., who is seen in the starring role of the Universal serial “The Scarlet Arrow,” which is being screened weekly at the Municipal Theatre, is claimed to be physically perfect. Both he and his famous father are perfect specimans oof mankind, well formed and built like Samsons. Their beautiful physiques have been the admiration of many and some years ago they posed for Isadora Konti, noted New York sculptor, for the youth and adult figures seen on the Gainsborough Atelier building in New York. The supporting cast of the picture, which was directed by Ray Taylor, includes such players as Hazel Keener, Henry Hobart. Al Ferguson, Aline Goodwin, Edmund Cobb and others. Rex. the Wild Horse, is the star of the’ other big picture.