AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 July 1924, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

■Til K WOMAN* IN 11 IS MOUSI; AM) NEW SKI? lAI. MONDAY.

One dl L 1 if finest domestic dram.is ever presented to the screen is the latest hirst X'ltiunnl Special “A Woman in his House’’ which will he the hit: attraction ut the Princess Theatre on .Monday next. The story is based on mother love, the greatest love in the world. The story of a neglected wife, a too busy and ambitious husband, a philosopher friend, and a baby. 1 1 i lure patrons will he plea-ed to know that starling .Monday next, the opening chapters of the wonderful serial o! the \ ukon, starring William Desmond will also he shown, and every .Monday following. “PF.iU I.S OK THK YUKOX."

Alaska in the days alum the weekly gold-dust Irani the elean-ups on the creeks came pi< tiirost|itely into town escorted by horsemen armed to the teeth, when dance halls and gambling licit' ran nnehecked. where men. maddened by the lure of gold valued the life of a human being le-s than did that i I one of their wolf-dogs - that is the Alaska lamed In snug and story, and imw shown on the screen in all ithectic realism. 1 1 remained lor l.’niversa I to Hint the real history.of Alaska from ISII7 to and make of it a continued feature-.“ Perils of the Yukon"- the first chapter of which "ill he shown at, the l’rincess Theatre on .Monday. It tells of the adventures of an American during the .stirring days of the period frem the late sixties in the early nineties.

MCLEAN’S PrTUncS. “DON’T WKITK I.KTTKHS." to-night. This (Friday) evening McLean's Pictures present Gareth Hughes in a George Baker production, “Don’t Vfrito Better?.” The story tells of how lie wanted to he a hero to the girl hack home whom he had never met. Unfortunately the work assigned to him in France was that of cook. Yet that didn’t prevent him from writing glowing letters extolling his own bravery to the skies. Yet he had to lace tho girl and tell her the truth about himself when he w.ns sent home again. She believed the soldier she was corresponding with to bo a tall, handsome Westerner, daily lacing danger in the trenches. He proved to he a short, tmromantic cook who had written many letters to her about his exploits in France. His lies to her prevented him from making love to her when he arrived homo again. Bobby Jouks caused the girl whom ho was corresponding from France to lielieve tlint he was ti. brave and fearless soldier, oontimtallv facing death in its most terrible forms. She did not know that his hardest work actually was handling a. hot roasting pan as cook. When the truth litis told she decided that oven though lie had written many falsehoods in his letters, lie w.is still good enough for her. See Gareth Hughes in nis delightful play of letter-writing and love milking. A comedy and the final episode of the serial “The Timber Queen" completes a line programme.