AMUSEMENTS.
PfIcLEAN’S PICTURES.
“THE BOWERY BISHOP” - FRIDAY.
McLean’s Pictures present on Friday a Selznick success starring Henry B. 'Walthall and Edith Roberts in “The Bowery Bishop”. It is different from the majority of films of recent months by Selznick, inasmuch ns it depicts the East or poorer side of the great American city in all its sordid reality in contrast to the society circles featured so much in the pictures of late. The Bowery is the equivalent of out own Surrey Hills or Woollootnooloo with the exccptin of the fact that these two localities- do not possess the shopping highway which is the Bowery itself. But the districts are alike. Poore; class folks living in drab surroundings, a great number of them honest though poor, and others of a criminal class resident there merely as a place of hiding from which they emerge only when the cloak of darkness has fallen on the city. Here life means the survival of the fittest and men and women fight like boasts of the jungle. Police arc the common enemy in the Bowery district and law and order is kept only by main force. When Norman Strong established his Open Door Mission in the locality ho hoped to bring light- to poor unguided souls, but hi.s efforts met with little Response. Hater he was the victim of circumstance through another’s social crime, but lived it all down to see the ultimate success of his efforts to bring spiritual consolation to the tenement dwellers. Saturday—The star feature will hr “A Motion to Adjourn.” MASTER PICTURES. “HER NIGHT OF NIGHTS.” FRIDAY. .Master Pictures present at the Opera House on Friday night tt 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 of Nights.” It is a unique story of a load house party and a darn-eyed baby vamp. Good supports will also be presented, with lull orchestra.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 April 1925, Page 1
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339AMUSEMENTS. Hokitika Guardian, 16 April 1925, Page 1
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