AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 April 1925, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

McLEAN’S PICTURES. “TH E WHITE SHADOW” TUESDAY Tiie star picture is a Solznick attraction starring Miss Betty Compson, the incomparable of the screen, in “ The White Shadow ” in which Betty Compson portrays the dual role of twin sisters, who though much alike in looks, have natures the exact opposite of each other. YVhile one of them is discovered smoking and gambling and generally enjoying herself in a cafe in Paris, the other girl is safely in England enjoying a quiet holiday in the country, is in iminent danger of losing her lover, who learns of the habits of the lady in Paris through tlio medium of his friend who, however, is unacquainted with the fact that there arc two sisters, thus attributing the rather wild and gay happenings to the lady previously thought a model of perfection by the man who loves her. This, however, is merely one incident in a series of extraordinary complications which follow one another in a dramatic story of a girl’s love and sacrifice for her sister. In this film Miss Compson is again supported by Clive Brook, who appeared opposite to her in the recent success, “Woman to Woman.” MASTER PICTURES. 0 PER A HOUSE—TUESD AY. The star picture at the Opera House on Tuesday night is a metro special “Desire,” the story being as follows: Madalyn Harlan and Bob Elkins wait to break off their engagement until they arc walking down the flowerstrewn path of their open-air wedding. They decide they can’t see it through and Madalyn flees to the arms of tlio man she really lovs. He is Jerry Ryan tiie Harlan chauffeur, and Madalyn gets secretly married to him. Bob turns for consolation to Ruth Cassell, a- sweetly innocent girl who lives with her grandfather, a violin teacher. Madalyn, in the meantime, fearing to inform her parents of her marriage, feels her way by telling them that she and Jerry are engaged. The result is that Jerry is discharged and she is forbidden to sec him again. However, she makes a clandestine visit to his home, and there she finds that her social background raises an almost insuperable barrier l>etween her and the llyans. Back at home, however, she realises that htr desire for Jerry is more powerful than

her caste instinct, and tossing away wealth, social position and the affection of her parents she goes to Jerry’s home. (Mis Ryan, not knowing of the secret marriage refuses her admittance, and says her son Jerry does not waul, anythin ginore to do with her. Madalyn. in despair takes poison in one of tiie cafes where she had previously had so much excited pleasure. The manager, thinking her in a stupor of intoxica tion carries her to a taxicab with orders to tlio clinffeur to drive her to a hotel for the night. The chaffeur is Jerry, mid it is not until he lil’s Madalyn from the taxicab that iie discovers she is ins wife. She is dead.