AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 31 January 1925, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

McLEAN’S PICTURES. TO-NIGHT—“BLUEBEARD JR.” How would you like the idea of being called a Modern “Bluebeard” just because you wanted to be good to your wife and got yourself into a terrible lix so that you could get $50,000 which an indulgent uncle had promised if you had settled down and become a dutiful, home-loving husband. That's w!ba,t happened to one young husband and how it occurred and the terrible complications which ensued is told in ‘'Bluebeard Jr.’’, one of the Lost motion picture farces ever screened which comes to the Princess Theatre this (Saturday) evening. The story is of a young couple who lire forced out of their homo on account of a .steep increase in rent. Terrific complications ensue. The' real wife enters, is cached in all upstairs bedroom, the claim enters ready to go-through .with her part ami .she is hidden upstairs. Then the husband of the wife playing as “wife” to the young husband, conics in and nothing can convince him that matters are not right, lie calls the police. .Meanwhile the attorney lias seen two women go upstairs, has seen the young husband brandishing a club at one, and a carving knife at the other, has heard loud talking and screams and decides lie is in a “Bluebeard’s” den. Upon the arrival of the police, however, matters are fixed up, and after lengthy explanations, everybody is happy and each wife is in the arms of her respective husband. The situations are developed to the highest degree of farce and the comedy is uproariously funny. The cast is ail all star one, in seven glorious acts. The Serial, Comedy, Gazette and Review will support- this monster programme. McLean's Orchestra will render the incidental music.

Coming—Charlie Chaplin's little four year old screen star in liis first big picture “The Prince of a King” starring Dinky Dean. MASTER PICTURES. TO-NIGHT. OPERA MOUSE To-night at the Op-era House, .Master Pictures present- a Beal art- production “South of Suva” starring Mary Miles Mintcr and an all-star caste, including TV in if rod Rryon. AValter Long. John Rowers. Roy Atwell. Fred Kelsey, and Lawrence Steers. Phyllis Latinioi is on her way to join her husband, Sydney. who left for the Fiji Islands after their marriage, three years previously. On the hunt is also Pauline Leonard oil her way to her guardian in Suva, hut falling in love on the limit, she decides i-i get madried and not go on to su\a. When Phyllis reaches the Fiji's she finds that her husband is a confirmed drunkard and a degenerate, a prey to the worst- influences of the tropics. He I,lames the three years ol separation and loneliness and she agrees to nelp him towards regeneration, hut not as his wife until he can prove himself worthy. But he continues his dissipations with the natives, and she flees to Suva, where she uses the letters of Pauline Leonard to pose as the waul ol John Webster, n successful plantation owner. On his plantation AAebstcr uses Hindoo labor ill preference to the lazv islanders and Latimer uses this m an" argument to incite the natives against him. The natives worked to n frenzy, attempt to attack M uUwer, hut lie dvmunitcs a lagoon and kills staei.u of them. Webster goes to Suva to obtain authority to have Latimer <loi>->H-ed. and while lie is away the latu sneaks in to burn and destro.i finds Ins “wile." There is .... oye a-l-r-hed to their marriage and tin li ■>- i„.r episodes that take place at t.us stave make a strong and vivid dian a. Across the room whirled the deadly kris, missing its objort by six ,n< us * v ,t pinning tl.o man to tl.o wall b his 'oat. Fiercely lie turned to nn tl.o rescue party had arrived, and ... the struggle he paid the penal >. Don't miss this authentic and realistic South Rea story. Excellent supporting T.rov,-amine includes a Paramount Gazette. Burton I lnln.es Travelogue and a Torcliy Comedy. Music by lion-tti . “'Sr-lWlny. a Master Picture entitled “Shadows” starring llanison Ford and Lon Chaney wdl be screened.