AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 March 1925, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

everybodys pictures.

UTCHARD BAKTHELAIESS MONDAY, Richard Barthelmess is one of the most delightful modern stories that lias been brought to the screen in a decade! That’s the piece do resistance that the Princess Theatre has the good fortune to offer its patrons on .Monday next. The production *s called “21.” In it liarthchness..who. lately has been distinguishing himself in period costume dramas, comes hack to the sort of modern role to which he is particularly well suited, lie is to he seen in the part of a 20-year old youth, the son of wealthy parents who are unhappily married, though living under the same roof. The artificial atmoshero of Ins home life, obnoxious to the boy, drives him to seek the society of people outside his own exclusive set, and so it comes about that he forms a friendship that grows into love for a pretty factory girl. It is the discovery by his parents of this romance that brings about the pivot a change in the boy's life. Learning it is his mother’s plan to send him to a ranch to keep him away from the girl lie determines to leave for the city to remain out of sight until lie is twenty-one, so that lie may wed whom he chooses and govern his own life. flic girl promises to wait for him. In New York he becomes a taxicab driver, and bis romantic auventures grow apace. There is a desperate encounter with bandits, a picLti rcs.'i lie Czecho-Slovakian dame. a most ((unpromising automobile breakdown and- Ent wail and see the picture! We can’t do it justice with words, .lohii i-i. I’ohertsiiii directed it and lovely Dorothy Atackail is Dick’s leading lady. Joe King, Dorothy Gumming and 11 rad ley Barker are among the sterling players in the supporting cast. Also it’s a First National Picture. The latest in Topicals and a specially good comedy complete .Monday night’s hig display. .Miss Williams’ Orchestra and usual prices.