AMUSEMENTS.
HVHRYBODYS PICTURES.
“THE AI A HP, I AGE CHEAT” MONDAY.
fhoma.s if. 7 1 ice, whoso pictures invariably possess Kiicli powerful themes ■‘"“1 rapid-lire action that they have l oon responsible lor tlie coining of the pliraso: “The Inee Punch/’ has delivered again. “The Marriage Client,” a First -National picture, which opens at the Princess 'theatre on .Monday contains that “punch'’ in generous measure, and in addition relates one of the most appealing romances we have ever seen Hashed on the silver sheet. “The Marriage Cheat” is a romance of the South Sea Islands, directed by .John Griffith' Wray from the story by Frank If. Adams. In the cast are Percy .Mannont, Lcati'ice Joy, Adolphe Mehjou, [.aska "Winter, Henry Harrows and J. Hackney. With .such a romantic hackground as the South Sea Islands, whole the picture was actually filmed, Director Wray has fashioned a film that possesses an appeal to ail types of motion picture lovers. There aie shivery thrills galore, including the leaping of the heroine into the sea from a yacht and tlic wrecking of a big liner in a typhoon. There are marvellous sienie shots of the noted islands; there ai tender s ones of love, poignant scenes of pathos. Filled with suspense that never allows the attention lo lag for a moment, the story move- swiDly and sniootldv. i mil i.isung civilisation v. ill
savagery, and it is acted with a fidelity that is noteworthy. Here i-> a pi'tiii'. lion we mil recommend wiiimni re- rva(ion as supreme entertainment. On Wednesday a musical and pictorial treat is promised in the pre-sen thin of tho evergreen ‘•f'nele Tom' (,'ahin” and special engagement of “The Kentucky Four” in solos, ducts, converted numbers, ragtime and comedv.
On Thursday next “Fools of Fortune with Afarquerito He ha Motto nnd Tullv Alar,shall will he presented.
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 April 1925, Page 1
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