AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 September 1925, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

PICTURES. I’OLA NEGRI- TO-NIGHT. 'Hie story of Apache Paris is enthralling. " Shadows of Paris ” is filled with tense dramatic power. Claire. lieautiful, fiery, is the queen of the underworld. Site has Iter headquarters at the famous haunt of the Apatites in ilie Cafe Boole. Here- she shares the rigid rulcrship with Fernand, " her man.” Known to the police as the Blackbird, she and her gang are the most wanted criminals in Paris. Then come the days of .March, 101-S, and all France rallies to the Hag. fernand is leaving and has only time tor a hasty embrace. Finally news irom the front brings the reported death ot l'crmind. Claire, although still loyal tu her people, does not relish the lite ol idleness. Flic masquerades as a war widow, and soon has .Paris society vying for imitations to her famous dinners and parties. Through this she is able to tell her Apache friends where tu make raids while the people attend her parties. Into her life es Raoul do Gramont, a young statesman, high in the esteem ol Ills lellow's and in the tint v to his country. 01 all the old people her maid was the only one whom she kept near her. Why not marry Raoul? No one would suspect that his wife was the t.tueen of the Apaches, suggests the maid. Finally Claire accepts, and in her new liie she realises the worth of her husband, and gradually slips from her old lile. Duthil, a journalist, tells a fashionable gathering of the girl who leads the Apaches, and who is to Im.' seen at the Cafe Runic. In Claire’s rooms Fernand confronts do (Toy. There is a struggle and Fernand is killed. A little later Raoul comes in. and de Croy tells him that he fired in protection of madaine’s jewels, lie is I reed, and later Claire, limls happiness with her husband, ill whom she confides everything. A superb supporting programme will he screened. I sual prices will prevail and McLeans’ Supreme Orchestra will render new and appropriate selections. Reserves at Miss Mclntosh.