AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 April 1925, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

PICTURES. ■ A MOTION’ TO ADJOURN'." FUI DAY.

Mi I.can's pictures present on Friday A .Motion to Adjourn,’’ one ol those pictures that do not tell you ai the start how il will end. Peter B. Kync is a young writer who lias thoroughly well mastered the 1 ricks of his trade; not the least important ol these i-, an ability to devise idols which hold _\ou in suspense from the nuuiient the pic! uit si arts until its end. I here are two brothers in I lie slery: one is caught robbing hi- lather s sale by the other hrollier. The father catches the innocent one wilh tie- incriminating documents in his lend and uaturnll v siispee:., him. He is literally caught wiili the goods. Cireiimstnnlial ci idem is against him. 'Fhe mnoceiil suffers for the guilty. Silas Warner, the innnceuL brotlier. incurring the nareiilid wrath, gees West In retrieve his reputation. 'I boll our story starts. To enleri ainmelit value ol “A Motion to Adjourn” is great simply bocause the plot anil iho eharaoteri/al ion is re varied. ’Fhe author look pains in developing his oharai tel ;- ■ t hey are not puppets, they are human Icings ami life-like. A common reproach against the screen is that llie people seen ill the pictures are unreal that vou do not meet, such beings in yutir dailv walks. But everybody seen in “ A Motion to Adjourn ” is human - and I Fio-1 ike. The author is a. close student of people and their diameters ami he enn transfer the things he observes to the screen. A lull supporting programme, comedy, gazette and scenic and McLean’s full orchestra make n full Hill. MASTER PICTURES, “HER NTGHT OF NfGHTS.” FRIDAY.

■Master Pictures present at the Opera House on Friday night a further very attractive holiday programme of the best pictures procurable in the Dominion. The star picture for Friday night will further introduce the popular Marie Provost in a dashing vivacious and saucy picture entitled “Her Night uf Nights." It is a unique story of a road "'house party and a dark-eyed habv vamp. Good supports will also he presented, with full orchestra.