AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 March 1923, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

PRINCESS THEATRE. FOR TWO NIGHTS ONLY. One of the finest, comedy dramas ever screened “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” will be shown at the Princess Theatre this week for two nights only, Wednesday and Thursday next. When the Fox Film Company produced a pictorial version of “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court" it was made a condition that the executors of Mark Twain should approve it before it was shown to the public, and that, failing .such approval, the whole thing should he destroyed. When the film was complete, the executors declared that had the author himself been alive ho would have wished that it should be produced in exactly the way adopted. It was high praise, hut the praise was entirely justified. Certainly few better comedy films have ever came to this country from the United States, a circumstance which is all the more striking because the whole background of the Court of King Artinis had to lie built up without the natural advantages that a medieval castle m rural England would have alforded, but throughout the illusion is excellent. Tt is dilficnll to believe that this is a lath-and plaster building. The acting, too, is admirable, and the Mark Twain atmosphere is maintained from first to last. Many of the subtitles sparkle with wit, and where liberties have been taken with the original story they have been only such as arc necessary to bring it up to date. The prices for this big attraction are circle 2s :M, stalls Is Sd, and children Is Id, and patrons can reserve their seats at Mclntosh’s.