McLEAN'S PICTURES.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 June 1924, Page 1

McLEAN'S PICTURES.

VIOI.A DANA, TUESDAY. On Tuesday .McLean's Pictures present Viola Dana, who sets the pace to the goal of hilarity, and decidedly clever entertainment in her latest Motto production “Blass Houses.” A’ivarious little Mi.ss Dana is seen as Joy Duval, wlm. with her sister, ('icily loses tlio money they lied inherited. Joy makes herself up as a caricature office type in “sensible" clothes and horn-rimmed glasses, takes the name' ol

“.lane Brown," and b.vames a companion to Aunt Harriet. The latter i mainly concerned with the reform o! her nephew. Billy Norton Due night Joy slips to her old home to eollecl some valuables which site laid Ifll behind. Upon her return to Aunt Harriet’s she finds herself lueked out. so goes to the garage to sleep. There also is liilly Norton, and to avoid a scandal he marries Joy. wlm. to his delight, then appears in a smart little frock that set - elf her ( hie beauty quite different from the prim “Jane Brown.’ But it is at this paint that a lively series of sparkling adventures begin, adventure's that give Viola Dana the merriest role of her career. Appearing' in “l Mass lliui-ts" with .Miss D ina are Gi'.-i'iii Blass, Mayme b.e'l-o. Helen Lynch. Claire Du 15rey. Ellsworth Bag-; and Joint Stoppling. Harry Beaumont dice: ted the production. I he .-■ceim.-io is ly Edith Kennedy, adapted

from a story by Clara Genevieve Kennedy. .V good supporting piogi anuin includes an tiuraeiite comedy.