AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 October 1923, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

TO-NIGHT— N.Z. JX 100 -MINUTES. The pulilie will * enjoy greatly the wonderful New Zealand films to be screened at the Princess Theatre tonight at 8 o’clock. The seating capacity of the theatre will he extremely taxed. Experts are enthusiastic with these White Star productions. They show New Zealand as the wonderland it is. No type of our marvellous sights is excluded. It is an education in it sell. Ihe greatest and most wonderful productions ever screened in Hokitika. "Is there a man with soul so dead, who never to himself hath said, this is my own, mv native land.” See it. Franz Josef Glacier, the famous drives of the M ost Coast, Aft. Cook, the Milford Mall?, Fiordland, l’u I’u Springs, Rotorua, Wanganui River and Samoa. REX REACH STORM THURSDAY. That popular writer of fiction Rex Reach who wrote such fine stories as the “Spoilers” and “The N’er Do Well” presents at the Princess Theatre on Thursday next another line story taken from that famous novel of his “The Net” entitled “Fair Lady.” Ret tv Rlythe, who made such a name lor herself in the “Queen of Sheba” plays the leading role in this fine production. and is supported by a very strong cast of leading players. This is frankly a vivid melodrama. There isn’t a theory in it, or a problem, or a great truth or anything. It is a straight-out hurricane of thrills. The story opens in Sicily, ami the settings, the costumes, and tho luxurious interiors of the homes of the Sicilian nristo(racy are amazing. On her wedding eve the Countess Marghorita receives a note from tho mysterious Cardi. And as she waits, gorgeously gowned in her wedding dress of shimmering silk, she ho-ars that her lover has been stabbed. She swears a vendetta that has terrible consequences. Then New Orleans, that strange city of America, whose foreign population make it a Latin Quarter. A big supporting programme will also he shown and the orchestra will play another fine collection of musical numbers. Prices are as usual.