McLEAN’S PICTURES.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 December 1923, Page 1

McLEAN’S PICTURES.

'•STOP THIEF,” TO-NIGHT. To-night’s prngntmme will be a big special starring Tom .Moore. The plot of -‘Stop Thiel” is one ol the best seen in a comedy drama for a very long time, for it is full of action from the commencement of the picture to tho final fade-out. Tom Aloore as the thief and Hazel Daly as his accomplice, Snatcher Nell. . A corking Alack Sonnet comedy, the erial, "Nan o’ the North” and Gazette will also ho shown. On Saturday at S.litl a gigantic programme will he screened. Glorious Pauline Frederick trill he seen in lief latest photoplay, "The Loves ol l.i'lty.” Is the game worth the candle? Many people ask themselves that question when they strain for clothes and luxuries and social position which they cannot: all'ord. Lctty Sin'll in Gohlwvii’s newest picture, ‘‘The I,oves of Lctty” from the play by Sir Arthur Wing Pinero, does not consider tile problem seriously because she is infatuated with Neville Letchmere, an aristocratic London clubman. Tier one hope is to marry him, and she makes a false effort to bring herself to the social level of Lotchiuores circle of friends. OPERA HOUSE TO-NIGHT. ‘•BLOOD AND SAND.” Rudolph Valentino in Blood and Sand, an eight reel super special will be the enormous attraction at. the Peerless pictures in the Westland Opera. House on Friday evening. The production is a distinguished one. impressive in its sincerity, startling in its thrills, filled with the warmth of a line love. Three richly embroidered cosi-nnies ueiillii)l{Z lllollis., pi-ov iilr much of the interest attendant upon Rudolph Valentino’s colourful and varied Spanish wardrobe in his new Paramount Picture, ‘-Blood and Sand,” by Vicente Blasco Ibanez. Thirty-five lbs each weigh the gorgeous silver, gold and satin tornador costumes worn by the star in bis appearances as ‘‘.Juan Gallardo.” a Imll-fighter of Spain. When fully dressed with the addition of his cape of pink, a Spanish hull-lighter tinkles and rings like :i battery of bells on a busy Sunday. THE BEAI'TY CONTEST. The semi-linal of the Beamy Competition will lake place to-night.