AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 June 1925, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

MCLEAN’S PICTURES.

"M<)o.\ M AI)NEKS’' .—TO-NIG I IT. Median’s present to-night, Edith Storey and an all-star cast of unusual merit in “Moon Madness’’, a pretentious drama of the African jungle and the famous Latin quarter of Paris front the pen of J. Grubb Alexander. 1 lie picture, one of the finest Haworth productions, is a Robert,son-Cole Special. In a setting ol*exquisite interiors and outdoor scenes rivalling in beauty films of scenic wonders, Miss Storey is seen as Zora, a French girl who had been reared from childhood by a tnmily of wealthy Bedouins on the African desert. When Adrien Flerouit a noted French artist comes to Africa and Zora poses ;..s his model for his masterpiece ‘‘Love”, he fans into a flame her desire to leave behind her the dry monotony of desert .life. She had served him well as an “inspiration’’ and further than that he did not care. Disappointed, disillusioned and heart-broken, all the hatred and tire horn of her lonely life in the desert conies to tlie surface aiul with a skill and cunning hitherto unthought of she determines- to make Adrien pay. From this point scene after sccme of dramatic inten.sitv follow and in

it startling climax Zora learns of

birth and parentage, and i.s reunited with her lover, Jan, whom she finds "'ailing for her as of old when she returns eagerly to the desert once

more, forever cured of her longing foi the sham and hypocrisy of a tinse world. A two reel comedy, gazette and scenic, will also lie screened. Me

bean’s Supreme Orchestra will rendei appropriate musical selection, listin' prices will prevail. Saturday A monster programme. MASTER PICTURES. “THE SILENT PARTNER." To-night (Friday). Master Pictures present, “The Silent; Partner.” Some wives dig into a man’s pocket for money, others make him dig. If you wauled to cure your husband of gambling in stocks, and at the. same time keep his money in the family, how would you do iff l.eatrice Joy, as tlie wife of a stock gambler, shows one way in the intensely interesting Paramount domestic drama of New York life, “The. Silent Partner.” Owen Moore takes Hie part of a small-sala-ried clerk in a stock broker’s office. When lie suddenly gets the speculation fever, success turns his head. He resigns his steady position and moves from a modest kitchenette flat to exclusive park avenue apartments. I low woman's wit prepares for the crash that conies how she stands hv her husband even though he neglects her in the excitement of piling tip newly-acquired wealth, is revealed in the film version of ibis human pieture. Splendid .supports and Bonetri’s Orchestra.