AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 April 1925, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

McLEAN’S PICTURES.

“THE REJECTED WOMAN.”— FRIDAY.

McLean’s present on Friday night a special attraction starring Conrad Nagel and Alma Rubens in “Tho Rejected AYoman.” Tho story tells when Diano canto to New York a solitory figure of a North AVoods girl, poorly dressed, unskilled in the ways of tho metropolitan butterflies, she found John Leslie not quite as receptive as he had been during their idyllic romance in the wilds of Canada. Diane could not forget the day when John’s aeroplane made a- forced landing in her little village. The wealthy young man had fallen madly in love. Happy days they spent together, until a radio broadcast from New York and received in the North, told of the death of John’s father and requested that a search bo mad-e for the missing heir. Now John was too busy burning up Broadway, wining and dining the mad Youth of society with whom Diarte couldn’t hop© to contend with her meagre wardrobe. One of the Leslie executors, an unscrupulous employee of the deceased millionaire, perceiving Diane’s difficulty and harboring a secret love for her himself, arranges to send her abroad for a year to gain tho confidence that beautiful clothes and culture can give a girl in her fight for the man she loves. In Paris John meets Diano, radiant and beautiful in her new clothes and surroundings. Their courtship continued once more comes to flower when they return to America. But Dunbar is even more eager now for the gorgeous Diano.' And by tho tho terms of the Leslie will if John marries without the approval of the executors, the entire estate goes to charity. Dunbar taunts Diano with tho source of her new found glory. John defends her, and to prove his faith, marries the conscience-stricken girl. Dunbar now produces cancelled checks showing that he paid Diane’s expenses, and John, believing his story, rushes away. Diane returns to her squalid home in the North. She is traced there by the. wicked Dunbar, who now hopes to gain her good will. They are alone in tho cabin. Dunbar attacks tho girl, when suddenly her husband crashes through tho door. John lias learned of Dunbar’s duplicity, and arrives in time to save the girl who truly loves him. The landing of tho All Blacks in AYolliilgton forms a. specially fine addition to the programme. The scenes depict the landing, the welcome by Afr Massey and shows many other notables of that stirring reception. Comedy and gazette and full orchestra.

MASTER PICTURES. 01 ’ERA JJO USE- FRIDAY. ARc Murray in “Fashion Row”, her new Tiffany production for Metro release will be the stellar attraction at the Opera House on Friday night. Written for Alliss Murray by Sada Cowan and’ Howard Iliggin, “Fm ion Row” gives the popular Metro star the interesting dual role of two sisters. One of them is the famous Olga Barinova, toast of Broadway, and the other is a grubby, little Russian peasant girl named Zita, who comes to America to find her sister. On the immigrant steamer Zita meets a- sinister figure named Kamiitoff. To Kami null' she shows a photograph of her sister, and its niiini'jtalv'ble rcscmfilaiuv to a dancing girl he once knew in a Russian dive brings back to Kaniinoff bitter memories. So lie plans to make Zita the instrument of his revenge, and in New York quarters her on the East Side with l.’apa and Mama Levitsky. Olga Fa.i'inovameanwhile, has given up her stage career to marry young Eric Ann Corlaml, son of one of Knickerbocker's oldest and most aristocratic families. The couple plan a Rus-

sian masked ball on the Van Corlaml estate, and so that the party may have a real Russian flavour, Jimmy Morton, who i.s Erie’s friend, goes to the Levitsky’s to procure real vodka. Ho meets Zita anil is suspicious of her resemblance to Olga. AVliat transpires in thu following scenes is said to make “Fashion Row” one of the most exciting romances of the season. Mae Murray says that her problem in selecting different gowns is different from that of most women, because whereas most women must consider how the color scheme becomes them. Aliss Alurrny must- consider first the photographic value of the colors. Almost a hundred gowns that she wears in “Fashion Row’’ were especially designed and made for |,or dual roles in this production.