AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 June 1925, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

KIcLGAN’S PEGTURES. “.MOON MADNESS".—TO-NIGUT. McLean’s present to-night, Edith Storey and an all-star cast of unusual merit iu “Moon Madness”, a pretentious drama of the African jungle and the famous Latin quarter of Paris from the pen of J. Grubb Alexander, The picture, one of the finest Haworth productions, is a Robertson-Cole Special. In a setting of exquisite interiors and outdoor scenes rivalling in beauty films of scenic wonders, Miss Storey is seen tt.s Zora, a- French girl who had been reared front childhood by a family of wealthy Bedouins on the African desert. When Adrien FJerouit a noted French artist comes to Africa and Zora poses t.s his model for his ina.-tcrpie:e “hove”, he fans into a llame her desire to leave behind her the dry monotony of desert life. She had .served him veil as an “inspiration” and further than that he did not care. Disappointed, disillusioned and heart-broken, till the hatred and lire born of her lonely life in the desert cullies to the surface and with a. skill and cunning hitherto un thought of xho determines to make Adrien pay. Front this point scene after scetrie of dramatic intensity follow and in a startling climax Zora learns of her birih and parentage, and i.s reunited with her lover, Jan, whom she finds waiting for her as of old when she returns eagerly to the desert once more, forever cured of her longing for the sham and hypocrisy of a tinsel world. A two reel comedy, gazette, and scenic will also be serecned. MrI.can’s Supreme Orchestra will render appropriate! musical selection. usual prices will prevail.

MASTER PICTURES. “A WESTERN MUSKETEER” TDESDA V. On Tuesday evening at (be Westland Opera lToti-e. .Master Pictures present a must novel and thrilling enteirainnient. featuring Loo Maloney iu “A Western .Musketeer." tbo product of the Truart Film Corporation. This is a real live western drama, which is full of thrills, with its buffalo bunts and Indian raids. with plenty of hazardous riding, tingling situations, and prairie romance. Ibis picture will give il to them in lumps. Leo Maloney is one ol' the cleanest cut young heroes of the western shockers, and William ('. Bertram gives an excellent study of a goodclass Indian, proving that be. is deserving of consideration as an actor as well as a. producer. The picture lias a, real hero on horse bark and iu Dixie Eamon! if. lias a heroine who represents the Is'ft. of American womanhood. Rond supports ami lull musical accompaniment by lionet li’s orehes.i ra.