AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 August 1923, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

FOOLISH WIVES” TO-NIGHT

10-night at the Princess Theatre the long-looked for picture “Foolish \\ ires’’ will be presented for one night only. Yon. couldn’t guess it in a thousand years-—the ending of the must thrilling and romantic screen spectacle ever shown. Listen—You have the superb hack-ground of gay .Monte Carlo, the fascinating renegade Russian Count, Sergius, who makes love too all women—the most despicable character ever filmed—‘the man you will love to hate.’ There he is among the luitteifiies, flitting from flower to flower; making foolish wives more foolish as they tall under the rnugic spell of his evil and sinister influence. Then .something happens. ‘Something most astounding happens just before the picture ends,’ writes Harriett Cnderhili. celebrated critic of the New York Tribune. ‘Something most astounding’ and we won't reveal wlmt it is. If you

would hud nut the secret of this great and wonderful screen spectacle, the turning point of screen art, see “Foolish Wives,” the most wonderful picture America has produced, by Yon Stroheim. Fascinating in its beauty, absorbing in it's story of life as it actually is, a wonderful study of women in their varying morals is this stupendous romance, told in epoch making scenes. “Foolish Wives” is a l niversal Super-Jewel production, and the first real million dollar picture, with more thrills than ever before concentrated in one picture, more costly stage settings than ever before, and the most fascinating villain the screen world lias ever known. The prices for this big feature to-night are: Circle •2s 2d, stalls Is 8d and children Is Id.