AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 April 1925, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

MCLEANS PICTURES. ' HANDLE AVITH CARE”— TO-NIGIE This (Saturday) night McLean’s I’ie turcs present at tho Princess Theatri “Handle With Care”. Tho leadinj star, Grace Darmond has a wide varied of lovers to choose from. There i: handsome and bashful Jimmy Morrison herein not so bashful however, for lit has the courage to propose t-o the beautiful Miss Darmond. six times. From a story by Charles Belmont Davis, it takes the serious question of tho proper way in which to manage a woman and laughs at it—and you laugh at it, and go homo feeling that you’ve had a real treat. Grace Darmond is a popular debutante who marries a man who it new all about law and nothing of ove. After two years, during which he >avs more attention to business than :-o his wife, she decides that any ons >f her ex-suitors would have made a >etter husband than David. Ho agrees o give her a divorce if she can get my of tho old lovers who had sworn villingnoss to die for licr, to elope with ier. It would he a shame to give away ;he outcome of her efforts to elope, ind of her husband’s efforts to win jack her love. A full supporting pro-p-ammo of comedy, and gazette will he >resented, with McLean’s full orches ,ra. TUESDAY —“SOULS FOR SALE.” Does a girl have to sell her Soul to win fame on the silver sheet? A convincing negative answer to this much discussed thought is given in “ Souls For Sale” a Goldwvn production, written and directed by Rupert Hughes which will bo screened at McLean’s Pictures on Tuesday evening. For those who have not read the novel, the plot is outlined below: Tho whirlwind courtship of handsome and mysterious Jwen Scuddcr has hardly given Pemfinher Steddan a chance to know hoi rut’ure husband, hut a terrible realization of his nil trustworthiness comes It her as their express is flying across i Western desert. Taking advantage ol il stop Mem slips from the train i< freedom. At this spot a moving picture company is making a desert pic ture and Atom’s beauty attracts Claymore, the director. The straighttor ward maimer of these film folk convin ecs her that they are real human be ings and not the monsters she ha: read about in the newspapers. As ai extra in the company Atom begins ti see that the life of a worker in pictures is by no means easy. . • ■ Keudder now returns to America aftci a varied experience of crime to fmi Mem a famous picture actress. Threat :.i blackmail failing, he disguises himself as an extra -and gets into a grew circus scene in which Diem is working A sudden storm overtakes the com puny. A bolt of lightning ignites tin lent in which the crowds of extras ari working and ill the ensuing panii Scuddcr meets his end. And Alcn freed at last of the horror ol this crim inal in her life now considers a tempt ing offer of stardom, but dayman hogs her to stay with him to strive foi now heights in her film work and sin realzies that staying with him is whin she wanted most in all the world. strong supporting programme "ill b< screened. AleLcan’s Supreme Orclies Ira will render the incidental musii mid reserve seats at Al.iss Mclntosh ■ !,„• „o extra charge. Prices: Dres: •l.cle stalls Is I’-l.

MASTER PICTURES. OPERA HOUSE—TO-NIGTIT. This (Satni-dav) evening at Westland )pern House Master Pictures present i, splendid all-star programme. A fea,ure no one " ill miss will bo the shure ire comedy drama “Fools of Fortune ’ eatming Alarquerile De La Motto, fully Marshall. Russel Simpson, Frank Trownlco, Jack Dill and other favo- ■ itos. Laugh and the world laughs vitli you. AVeop and the laugh’s on •on. No chance for weeps in this pieure. Como, in comfy clothes or else igliten Hie fastenings on your go-to-nectin’s—you’re goin’ t-o' laugh! A ill! supporting' programme includes a cazette and a. scenic. The full orchosVn will supply the incidental music.