AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 September 1925, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

fiVERYEOQYS PICTURES, ‘•A WOMAN til-' STONE” TO-NIGHT. 'Hi is evening at tin; J’rinee.xs 1Jk j ::!)■<• ;i .special 1-ii.xi National I'uuOire will Ik- presented .starring Alee Joyce. .Marjorie Daw and Clive Brook in “A Woman ol ,Sume." Frank Star lon, llie well-known novelist, is responsible lor 11 1 ■ ■ sNory ni "The Pax-Innate Adienture" pii-Diro title“Tlie Woman of Alone.’ The plot is "mien round the sincere ami passionate In', e <>! Adrian Si. Clair for his heantilul but cold, unresponsive wife, Dnisiii'i. a i-d the lie. s are laid particularly amid high .society and .slums of London. The action i, ([nick, and pnc.-ex rapidly irom ova. tense episode In tim next. While the situations artmost ii it usual, they are so delicately handled that not even the most. relined sensibilities cmild be offended. Tim st'-llar role of Brasilia- is played

Alien -iov-'e. Her clian tr-ri-aiion of the cold and unresponsive wife, and. Infer, when she dcscovors that. she really 1 <> '*« s her lins’-and. is a. truly remarkable delineation, anti one which will add much to Miss Joyce's already brilliant ropulnlii.n, which dates back to early Victorian days. Clive Brook portrays Adrian St. Clair, and In? brings to the eliar.-ictor.isal'ion a strength and masculinity which is rarefy shown by a leading; man—even t lie Lest of them. We do not hesitate i-i prediet a -'lowing future for him. The role of Vi key. the lit He slum trirl who falls in love with Adrian, is taken by .Marjorie Daw. who needs no inimiliietion as a most capable and loving aclre.ss. A startling and wonderful story. D is a great novel made into a still greater moving picture.

“The Woman of St; no'' from Frank Station's daring story “The Passionate Adventure." Marriage a. failure, lif" a lore, he found excitement in the lower si rata of society. \ vivid ami com;-oiling purl nival of uhat v. re kmc a cold woman can bring to a man's life. The latest in Toph-nls. A Trip to Otaki (scenic’) and “Boys will lie I'.oys" (comedy i complete, the programme.