AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 June 1925, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

IT. MCLEAN’S PICTURES. ..■■aggiip.- - '•SILAS MAHXEir— FRIDAY. McLean’s present on .Friday George tv Bliot’s greatest story, “.Silas Manier,’’ ,1- Arranged for the screen and directed v by Frank P. Donovan, an introductory td title in the film says. “It is in del'er,l- encg 1.0 public intelligence that this a, photographic edition of ‘Silas Mantes - .' save for minor rearrangement that time g limitation of the theatre exacts, ha-' 11 been faithfully picturised as it is writ- ■ f ten." As conceived by George Flint, c 'Vilas Marner’ lias everything that 0 goes to make good motion picture on- :- tertainmont. It is a gripping, pmg. d 11.nit.', exquisitely tender hitman interest story of red-blooded homey folks. There is a blending of love, tragedy, i- mystery, cruel deception and deep - -ymputliy in tbc plot. And these v charms of the story lend themselves - admirably to the screen. Craufurd 1 Kent, well known, as a- leading man < of unusual character ability, plays the ; title role, and is assisted by a large > ca-i. prominent therein being Marqne- ■ rite C'onrtot, Robert Kenyon, Bradley ' Barker, Anders "Randolph, George J’tiwcett. .Afarie. liditli. Wells, Joint 81111-'!--i!l mihl many others. Good su])ports include lomcdy. gazette. Patlie nows, niul full ni'cheptra. MASTER PICTURES. RTFPHKX STKPH OUT "- -FRIDAY 'Li-ii-r Pictures present on Friday itexi .mi. the Opera House “ Stephen Si p.. Out" featuring Douglas Fairb:mk- Jnr.. with Theodore Roberts. See the American Roy’s first picture, adapted by lulfrid Bingham from Richard Harding Davis's “The Grand < Vos.- of the Croscent." Directed by Joseph Heuabery. Cast includes Noah I‘eery, Harry Myers and Frank Currier. Young Fairbanks makes his debut in this picture. The sets arc lavish with Oriental splendour. Scenes are shown of tbc throne room of the Sultan and his advisors in session, a huge hotel of Orionlal architecture in Constantinople and many quaint corner- of the Near-Bast city, where Turkj '"-! 1 rebels are supposed to be plotting in overthrow the government. The -tor,; concerns Stephen Harlow Jr.. -01 nl‘ the head of the Harlow Packing Company, who is attending a school founded bv his lather. Stephen fails in his examination in Turkish history and Ills angry father sends him to Turkey with a iutor to study the history "f !he count i v on the spot.