AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 April 1924, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

KILAI STAR AGAINST SCREEN SEX LIRE. MARY ALDEN WANTS lIEALTIiYAI(XJ)Ef) GIRL TO WIN WORTH WI i 11; E MAN ONCE IN A WHILE. “If motion picture producers would have an actress portray the healthyminded, clean-living woman that knows nothing of the tricks of sex lure and let her win a genuinely worth-while man once in a while, the lure might lose its vogue, the standard of womanhood might rise to a point where it would benefit the male of the species and suggest a permanent domestic happiness.” So declares Miss Alary Alden, eminent portrayer of the mother type in photoplays, and star in “A Woman’s Wcinian,” a Charles Giblyn picture. -Miss Alden makes this assertion in the course of a recent interview in which she asks why it is that an actor or actress seeking an engagament must parallel in physical likeness the image of the author’s creation, contending that this phase of “casting" a photoplay puts a limit on artistic endeavour. Miss Alden admits she has not suffered from this abuse of types, since slle has played many characters where the make-up in each case absolutely concealed her own facial linamcnls, hut she does argue that the era.-'.e for types is holding hack artistic achievement on the screen. The constant demand for physical types, -Miss Alden then goes on to say, signifies one tiling more than any other—sex lure. “It seems,” she says, "that some prdouccrs do not care what the player's though (.-processes may be, nor what their ability to create a real characterisation so long as they carry a Lucille model well. The supports include the latest in Topicals and a two-reel comedy. The orchestra will play the incidental music. Prices are as usual.

McLEAN’S PICTURES.

VIOLA DANA TO-NIGHT. Picture patrons are in lor a treat v.hen .McLean's Pictures will present beautiful Viola Dana in her latest screen play "Life’s Darn Funny.” "Bohemia,” said the late James llunoker, "is not a state of the soul; it’s a state of the poeketbook.” It is the state in which Zee Robert and Clay Warwick live, a state in which the poeketbook is always flat. Horn Bohemians they have concentrated their lives to art. They “starve, feast despair”—and dream of the chateaux in Spain that they will purchase when recognition comes. Meanwhile they can’t pay their bills. Clay is ousted iroiu bis studio by a landlady wtio fails to see the logic of permitting a • voting man to spend his days in paint-I ing stulf that nobody buys. Sick of soul, lie wanders the streets. Put | there’s compensation in being an ar-j list, even if it doesn’t come in a. weekiV jray 'envelope. A beautiful . painting, a sculpture, a '’it of music i and the artist is enriched. It is a hit of music this time that arouses ( lav Warwick to a sense oi spiritual wealth. As he passes a lodging house he hears a violin played superbly. He obtains a room theie and listens hungrily to playing that is food and diuik to him. Put one day the violin 1 -tops. Thotv are strangled sobs. ( lay goes to the room where he hears ih- snbhing all:! finds a pretty little girl huddled on a couch, weeping in I,link despair. It is Zee Robert. Zee. a Fiench girl, had come to New York, high in hope el a hearing lie, ehaurc has come, she is signed t.> give a concert. Put her money has ■ i\e i c.:t. She has no gown lit to wear, {‘lav has materials that his models used in the past, and he designs a gown for Zoo to he made from those materials. The exquisite creatieii helps considerably towards the suet ess of Zee's debut. She makes a great many friends, and among them j, a eriina doitni, who, leaving nil a tnur.'e.-U- Zee to take care of _ her apartment while she uts gone. Zoo, excited by the new change i" fortune, has her worldly ambitions stirred, thinks that (’lav is a genius as a gown designer and urges him into partnership in making gowns that ujll express the personality of the wearers. Zee recklessly orders the mostjexpensivc mnljcrials I'm-the towns, charging them to the prima donna's account" Gown- arc . sold. hut the wealthy patrons are slow to pay. I lie creditors of the linn of Marwick b«»t onie pressing. A two-reel comedy, (butene. Bathe News end Serial "The 'limber Ouoeii.” will conclude a really line programme. Managerial .»otc The serial will he shown lest oil the programme. Tuesday—Rex Peach’s “Going Some” and Charlie Chaplin in "Hi* Property.”