AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 October 1921, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

PCLIARu’S r ICTUSES.

01,1YK THOM. AS AND 810 -MICH LEW IS, .MONDAY.

On Monday I’ollards are presenting an extra special double star progiammo Olive Thomas will he seen in the leatiiitfr vole of a big Solznii-k prodiudi•.ti, entitled "The Oloriotis Lady,” ami Big Mieh Lewis in .JaeU London's lainoiis story. "The Mutiny of the Elsinore.' There is no question about this adaptation of a Jaek London story being regular, full-grown "he-man's” p:c----1 me. The author always wrote in terms of vivid notion, his plots and elm meters being vital and sharply dolined. “The Mutiny of the Elsinore” easily takes the prize lor being ti:. most graphic and piei urt>«|Uo si a story that was ever told on the si-icon. Ihe striking point in its visualisation i the remarkable realism that aec.uuponies, the gripping incident, "'ihe .Mutiny of the Elsinore” has its tender moments which afford it an adequate balance. Yet it is a tale ot the sea .gud its vigorous sweep is as certain as the tide itself. Painstaking effort_ ■•= visible everywhere in malting it faithful. The schooner, the cut-throats who compose the crew, the stern and leleul-I-ss skipper, the mutiny itself, the storm-tossed deck with the ram ami wind raising havoc—these are details mid incidents which arc thoroughly eoni|K‘Hing.

fdcLEAN’S PICTURES. CHEAT PROG.BAMME TUESDAY

Williiim Do Mill'' has a lU ‘‘ Beale theme ii\ a skill ul and delightf„| wmcr, in hw lnto*t I'iiramount Super-production. “Midsummer Madnrss.” mining to Hokitika on Tucs,l iv. Although the story is <u a type entirely different from the producer s most rerent picture 'The Prince Oli-'P it Bears the same artistic quality w ]:i: h has cliai r.i tori', d all P‘>'' produced under Mr Do Millo's <l,recti, “Midsummer Madness” is th* pietnrisaticn of Cosmo Hamilton's soeielv novel. "His Friend nYd I"' Wife'- Tin- store <eiitr<'s around too po. dlpn Dsiisv Osborn VO II Hi' HIM! I H’U < O'l’H. . . to too devoted to her husband, •luliaa: lie loin's I'or nee. worlds and women I Hoh Meredith is not dev., ( e : l eiioiieh to his ".ile. Margaret sl,e longs for miuanee. h'or a time she ems to find it in Julian, and. under ,l 1 ;. ~.,11 .1 a moonlight midsiimirn'r -he ,- s into a indiscretion that threat-

ens when it erne.-- to the eats nl a pm fessional s, andal-numger. to um' lives But light dawns upon l!oh Vorodith ami trolly is averted. Mr He Mill,, seems, in this pietnre. to luu inHodnee,! a -anu-ra within four v- ~ls ,)l two lypir.il! homos oi tin* lu-ttm s,, r i li is this t rne-tn-hfeie'ss 1 .ml , r jves 'Midsummer Madm-ss its tenilie punch and appeal. This is aid' d hv! he\, ell,-nl act inn offered hy l.da 1.-e. |,,IS Wilson, .lack Holt and Conrad Nagel 111 the leading roles