AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 November 1924, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS PICTURES. “BROKEN JSLO.SSO.MS,” AIONDAY. On -Monday, Everybody's Pictures present jit the Princess Theatre, Hr Griffiths latest success, “Broken Blossoms.” Thumns Bnrke, who wrote “Lime-house Nights,” from which Air Oriliith has chosen the story of “The Chink and the Child,” to illustrate his line philosophy of humanity, religion and art speaks often of that rather dreary district hard hy the East India docks in London, where gather the strange sea people from all the parts of the world. The streets that are peopled with these characters, the Limchoiise Road,-the- Mile haul Hoad. Ponnylields and the rest, were once low-lying swamps that have heen wrung, in the course of years, from the grip of the misty river. So it is that when elsewhere the skies are fair, this district is wrapped in fogs, lit cover for the deeds of hatred and cruelty chat so often takes place there. Xow it is one thing to see and experience a fog, (piite another to photograph it. Hi a still photograph a fog effect may he gained hy under-development, hut it is obvious that for the motion picture camera there can he no underdevelopment if the mystic shows moving behind the veil have to he recorded. The effect was gained at last, for the one outstanding artistic quality of Air Griffith is persistence, hut it was in winning this success that the producer spent more money on “llroken Blossoms” with its small cast, than he did on “The Birth of a Nation,” which employed whole armies. Comedy, Gazette and 2nd. episode of serial “The Kaglo's Talons.” Incidental music by the full orchestra.