AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 July 1924, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

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TO-NIDHT

'lo-nighl al tln- Piinee->s Theatre tv\‘n oi the world’s greatest picture Slil| ’s, Richard Rartlielmess and Dorothy Gish will lie co-starred together in hirst .National’s great driinin of Cuban romance entitled “The Bright Shawl.’’ In this irresistible Cuban romance Darthelmess outshines even the roles that have made him’ “’■eat. The fiaming romance uf the voting rover and ilie Spanish dancer—a saint with painted lips and Hashing heels. Tlie wbirlin g fringe of a dancer’s shawl rainbow-luted and silken, tanned passion and intrigue into flame under Cuban skies. It brought hale and strife and enmeshed the bnv. The woman who wore* it loved him. She* died lor that love. And stained with the Idood of the d anoint saint, the shawl brought love to a waiting senorita. A Spanish dancer and the hoy: death in a woman’s smile—and as sudden. The in triune of dark Havana; the sinister languor of tropic nights fanned into flame by the whirling fringe of a beauty’s shawl. Special orchestral selections and usual prices to-night.

MeLEAN’S PICTURES.

BERT LYTELL, Kill DAY. Bel t l.vtell. in “The Face Between" a Bayard A’eillcr production for Metro, will lie seen on Friday at the Princess Theatre. This picture is a screen version of a story by Justus .Miles Forman. made from a scenario by !.entire Coffee. It deals with the sacrifice of Tommy Carteret, a New York society m.-.u. who. to save the reputation of his rotto father, becomes an exile in the Blue Ridge Mountains, turnin': his back oil everythin;: flint had made life worth while, even living up the girl whom he had hoped so.in to marry. Darin l : bis banishment, a mountain ;:irl falls in love mill him. and. despairing of ever being able to refill'll to civilisation, he decides to marry her. but she is shot by her jealous lover and Carteret himself is wounded. It. would be unfair to those who are to see tins picture to reveal here the various complications which then result, and their filial solution, but it can be said that this unusual and highly excitin': story provides all the ingredients of the perfect picitre. Bert l.yttel enacts the robes of both father and son and makes the latter a character of infinite appeal. A cast of unusual excellence s,upp irts Mr l.yttel in "The Face Between.” Atidreo Tourneur, a beautiful .seventeen-year-old blonde, playin': her first important role, has tin* part of Carteret's fiancee, ami Sylvia Dreamer is the mountain ;:irl. Others are Hardee Kirkland, Hirnrd Alexander, Frank Brownlee. Burwell Hamrick, Joel Day and Dewitt- Jennings. Comedy, Gazette and second In t episode of the serial “The Timber Queen” completes Ibis big programme. Coming:—.Madame Beiane in “Gipsy i\: - Jon.”