AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 August 1925, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBOOYS PiCTUREa. • K. I'll K UNKNOWN.” .MONDAY. Vi ill'll in V alloy has added another success to her considerable list of achievements of the screen in her " ,J )I; in ”K. The ITiknmvn.'' width will he shown on Monday next. The pic! ni " as a w hole is a line vehicle for i he star, and lor the others jn the east as well, for ii is a story that does not tax the credulity of the spectator in any maimer; rjiiitc to Ihe contrary. in fact, il makes the spectator quite certain of acquaintanceship with men and women who niiylit well have been the diameters. I'nivorsal made “K. The l nkiiown'’ from the novel “K.” written liy Mary Roberts Khinebart, and Director A. Pollard decided, quite wisely, that he could do no letter than tell the story on the screen just about as the author told il on paper. The re--4*11!I Inis been unusually sal isfaetory. and one leaves (he theatre feeline that around Ihe corner or across the si reel the same emotions of oriel, and of happiness and of passion are poxsexsiny some one. Percy Miinmmt is so wellknown screen patrons that he require* no introduction: for him siiliice ir to remark that in his characterisation of i lie name part of the story. K. T.e Moyne, the man who souyht to hide his identify in the small town where, instead of success io his hopes, he became the moviny liyure in a series of events that hail such irnyie results for some of those who had heroine his friends in his new environment. Mnrinnni attains the fine standard expeeled of him since Ids work' as Murk Sabre in ! '!f Winter Comes.” Maryarita Fisher’s return to the screen alter a. considerable absence shows tiiai .she has lest none of the old lire thal made her a star. While her part, that of CarlnUa! Harrison, the woman who loved so yrcntly ttint site dared m commit crime for the man so unworthy of her, is not- entirely appmiliny. her skill makes the elm meter far less ropeHiuil than could easily have berm the ease. and. in Ihe end. the deluded CarlnUa wins sympathy. John Roche comparatively new to I lit* screen does well as Dr Max Wilson, the man for whom ('arietta sacrificed so much: and Maurice Ryan as the love-aviyuished youth, Francis Feeney, a youth also in love, hut not so anyiiFhod. Myrtle Vane and the aunt and William A. Carroll, n* Dr K. Wilson, are einvinciny in parts that they must: have enjoyed part raviny. there is some line photography and some line direclion. all of which makes This ITiiversal-fewel a picture well worth yoiny to ‘-eo. A line supporl iny series will also be prosented. and special selections by ,Mi--AY ill jams’ Orclieslra. Csual prices will be churned.