AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 April 1925, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

ffIoLEAN’S PICTURES.

“THE BOWERY BISHOP” - TO-NIGHT.

McLean’s Pictures present to-night 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 as 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 oui own Surrey Hills or Wbolloomooloo with the exceptin 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 beasts of tbc jungle. Police are the common enemy in the Bowery district and law and order is kept only bv main force. When Norman Strong established his Open Dcor Mission in the locality he hoped to bring light to poor unguided souls, but his 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 be ‘A Motion to Adjourn.”

MASTER PICTURES.

“PIER NIGHT OF NIGHTS.”

At the Westland Opera House, tonight a great holiday programme is being presented by Master Pictures, the star picture being a Universal Jewel special entitled “Her Night of Nights,” starring Marie Provost, who is very daring, vivacious and saucy. Miss Provost takes the part of Molly Malone, who is the latest thing out in cloak models. She is the headliner at Bradlev’s Inc. The best part of her job is attending parties that young Ted Bradley engineers for, the coaxing of reluctant out-of-town buyers into a generous spirit which will bring big orders. Molly loves to dream, for Molly has dreams of marrying money. And her home life now is exceedingly uninteresting. Molly hasn’t much sympathy for domestic dreams till Jerry Trimble, late of the backwoods, wanders into her life and into Bradley’s Inc’s, exclusive establishment. Then (Molly (May liegins to change her ideas. Parties now mean less and less as Jerry grows in favour. In a few short months. Molly May, the fashionable, has become a demure young woman with a growing savings account and a nice eye for small, neat houses, same to be shared by one .Terry Trimble and ohl Pop Malone. Ted Bradley has viewed with disgust the metamorphosis, but Molly firmly refuses to bo kidded out of her new mental state. Bradley Jr., .has acquired a wife, one Myone Madrigal, of the musical comedy stage, and is in iho progress of as s|ieedil.v losing her. After a (particularly wordy engagement they separate, Myone expressing her intention of getting a divorce. It is shortly after this that one evening Molly May and her Jerry are to make a most important payment on the house of their dreams. The/ option on the house is to expire that night, and they are both excited and thrilled over it. Then Jerry rails to meet her, ami she waits a miserable hour. After various menial diagnosis of the situation she decides that Jerry lias been deliberately deceiving her. Then along comes temptation in the form of a set ot fnrs, and Molly in a lit of pique, buys them, only to learn within a few minutes that, Jerry was legitimately detained, and the option has been extended so they can pay for the house the next day. Molly >s conscious-stricken. Jerry takes a high-handed attitude, they quarrel bitterly ami separate in misery. And just then is the time Molly meets Ted Bradley and plunges at bis invitation into a night of excitement, a night of luxurious gaiety, in which all her old dreams are revived and come partially true, until disaster overtimes her at a masked ball at which Ted’s wife is present, and before the evening is over Molly is glad to return to the shelter of Jerry’s arms and put aside definitely all her luxurious dreams for the reality of love. Good suport.s. Orchestra and usual prices.