AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 May 1922, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

—— POLLARU’S PICTURES.

Next Monday's great feature “l'oolish Matrons," a. Maurice Tourneur production depicting the night life of Xew York in the palaces of gaiety and cabaret is announced as one of the host moral dramas of the day. Without doubt Maurice Tourner stands foremost in production. Of dramatic studies, “Foolish Matrons” tells the story of three women wlm married—and in it the author points to the inevitable “that if love is not there before marriage then the danger arises of the love that conies after marriage. “The play is In 11 of (prick action and full n! life and incident. CONFESSION. “Confession,” claimed to be one of the seven best pictures made in America last year, and probably the most widely discussed of the seven, is to be serened at the Princess Theatre on Wednesday, under the direction of Messrs E. J. and Dan Carroll. “Confession” was made by the National Film Corporation of America at a cost of £45.000. and a caste was specially selected from the legitimate stage to suit the particular characters, with Mr Henry Walthall, of “Hearts of the World” fame as the priest. Father Bartlett. The scenes of “Confession” present a succession of dramatic thunderbolts. Tense situations and gripping climaxes hold the viewers in suspense throughout the seven long reels, though tlie tremendous theme is softened by the elements of the love of a girl for her sweetheart, the hive of a brother for his sister, and the love of a mother for her son, and the hate of a man for the betrayer of his sister. “Confession” is not a propaganda picture. Tt is claimed to he a production that has and will make a poignant appeal to the hearts of all men and women, irrespective of their religious views. In the dramatic sense it is not a picture, it i.s a seven-act play, that simply enthrals from beginning to end.