McLEAN'S PICTURES

Hokitika Guardian, 31 March 1924, Page 1

McLEAN'S PICTURES

“THE SWINDLER,” TUESDAY

Absolutely one of the finest productions produce dby the Stoll Company will be screened on Tuesday evening. The picture of the story which first appeared in the ‘Red’ .Magazine, the story that won fame for the authoress, Ethel M. Dell. It is a Stoll production, ' The Swindler,” featuring two stage favourites, Cecil Humphries and •Majorie JLuine. Cards! Cards! Cards! How often a man’s destiny depends oil the face of a more piece of pasteboard. Ho has deliberately taken the blame, and now he was paying the penalty with five of the best years of his life! According to the police, the notoriosu Nut Ycrney had been cheating at cards on a trans-Atlantic liner, and his identity revealed. Ethel M. Dell’s famous romance “The Swindler,” is enfolded in this splendid picture depicting scenes on dawn over London, Rotten Row, on board a groat liner, in New York cell, and a British aircraft factory. A faithful adaptation of the famous novel. A two-reel oemedy, Gazette and Paths News will conclude a splendid program me. Usual prices will prevail and McLean’s Orchestra will render tho incidental music.