AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 June 1925, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

MCLEAN’S PICTURES.

“.ciLAS Al AR XER ’ - —TO-XIG ITT. Ale-Lean's to-night present George Eliot’s greatest story, “.Silas Alarner, -- Avranged for the screen and directed by Frank P. Donovan, an introductory title in the film says. “It is in deieren v to public intelligence that this photographic edition of ‘Silas Alarner, -avc for minor rearrangement that time limitation of the theatre exacts, has been faithfully picluriscd as it is written.” A.s conceived by George Eliot, • Nilas Alarner' lias everything Hun . ( ;> make good motion picture entertainment. H is a gripping, poignant. exquisitely tender human intel■■st story of red-blooded homey folks. • | heu- js a blending oi lute, irageds. my,story, cruel deception am! dee-p sympathy in the plot. And Hies,* charms of the story lend themselves admirably to the screen. Cranford Kent, well known as a leading man of unusual character ability, plays the title role, and.is assisted by a. large , ast. prominent- therein being Alarqucriie Con riot, Robert Kenyon. Bradley Barker. Anders Randolph. George .Fawcett. Alarie Edith Wells, John Randall am! many others. Good supports include comedy, gazette. Rathe news, mid lull orchestra.

fc?A3TF.fi; PICTURES. “STEPHEN STERN OCT - ' TO-NIGHT. .Master Pictures present this (h today) , 1 1-_r !11 :u the Opera House “Stephen Sirps Out ” featuring Douglas Fairbanks J nr., with Theodore Roher is. y,.,, (In* American Boy’s first picture, adapted by Edfrid Bingham from Richard Harding Davis’s “The Grand Cro-- of the Crescent.” Directed hy Joseph llenahery. Cast includes Noah Rci iy. Harry Myers and Frank Currier. Young Fairbanks makes his debut in this picture. The sets are lavish wi;!i. Oriental splendour. Scenes are shown of the throne room of the Sultan and his advisors in session, a huge, hotel of Oriental architecture in Con Maui Ample and many quaint corners of the Near-East, city, where Turkish rebels are supposed to he plotting to overthrow the government. The story concerns Stephen Harlow .Tlx, son of Hie head of the Harlow Packing ( iimpany, who is attending a school founded I)V his father. Stephen fails in his examination in Turkish history and his angry fattier sends him to Turkey with a tutor to study the history of the country on the spot.