AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 April 1925, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

McLEAN’S PICTURES.

“THE REJECTED WOMAN.’ TO-NIGHT.

Ale-Lean’s present this evening a special attraction starring Conrad Nagel and Alma Rubens in “The Rejected Woman.*’ The story tells when Diane came to New York a solitary figure of a North Woods girl, poorly dressed, unskilled in the ways of the 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 A r ork and received in tho North, told of the death of John’s father and requested that a search bo made for the missing heir. Now Joint was too busy burning up Broadway, wining and dining the mad Youth of society with whom Diane couldn’t hope 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 the confidence that beautiful clothes and culture can give a girl in her fight for the man she loves. In Paris John meets Diane, 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 Diane. And by tho the terms of the Leslie will if John marries without the approval of the executors. the entire estate goes to charity. Dunbar taunts Diane 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 cheeks showing that lie 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 tho wicked Dunbar, who now hopes to gain her good will. They are alone in the cabin. Dunbar attacks tho girl, when suddenly her husband crashes through the door. John lias learned of Dunbar’s duplicity, and arrives in time to save the girl who truly loves him. The landing of the All Blacks in AYellington forms a specially fine addition to the programme. The scenes depict the landing, the welcome by Afr Afassey and shows many other notables of that stirring reception, Comedy and gazette and full orchestra.

MASTER PIGTURES.

Ol >E IFA HOUSE —TO-NIGH T

Afae Murray in “Fashion Row”, her new Tiffany production for Metro release will he the stellar attraction at the Opera House this (Friday) evening Written for Aliiss Murray by Sada Cowan and Howard Iliggiu, “Fa ion Row” gives the popular Metro star the interesting dual role of two sisters. One of them, is the famous Olga F«riiiovti, toast of Broadway, and the other is a grubby, little Russian peasant girl named Zita, who comes to America to liinl her sister. On tho immigrant steamer Zita, meets tt sinister figure named Kaminoff. To Raminoff she shows it photograph of her sister, and its unmistakable resemblance to a dancing girl he once, know in a Russian dive brings hack to Kuminoff bitter memories. !so lie plans to make Zita, the instrument of his revenge, and in New York quarters her on the East .Side with Papa and Alania Levitsky. Olga Farinova, meanwhile, lias given up her singe career to marry young Erie A nn Corlnml, son of one of Knickerbocker’s oldest and most aristocratic families. The couple plan a Russian masked ball on the Van Corland estate, and so that the party may have a real Russian flavour, Jimmy Aforton, who is Erie’s friend, goes to Die Levitsky’s to procure real vodka. Ho meets Zita and is .suspicious of her re, semblance to Olga. What transpires in the following scenes is said to make “Fashion Row” ono of the most exciting romances ol tho season. Alive Murray says that her problem in .selecting different gowns is dillerent from that of most women, because whereas most women must consider how the color scheme becomes them, Afiss Altirrnv must consider first the photographic value, of the colors. Almost a hundred i,owns that she wears in “Fashion Row” "ere especially designed and made for her dual roles in this production.