AMUSEMENTS. PICTURES.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 November 1925, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

PICTURES.

A PARAMOUNT SPECIAL-TO-NIGHT.

Another glorious Paramount star, “Empty Hearts,” will bo screened by Alt-Lean's this evening, featuring Joint Bowers, America’s beloved screen actor. It is another of those stories in which jazz-loving and hectic-living folk provide the main characters. The oldfashioned people are out-of-date in these modern times, and it is their own children that tell them so. Truly there has been such a remarkable speedy transition in tho modes of living, during the past decade, that there one is left wondering just when the pendulum is going to swing back, and so permit us to live much easier and better. The plot running through is subservient to a series of events, nevertheless it holds together all right. AVhen the old people take it into their heads to fight their ultra-modern (and likable) daughter at her own game, we sec a remarkable change in both Mong (as tho father) and Betty Blytc (the mother, transformed from an old-fash-ioned woman to a lady of some importance). Tho usual parasites of society are to bo found in this picture, and there are, other modern of an inconsequential order who provide the necessary atmosphere. The more sane people of tho east, which includes Robert Ellis. as tlie hero, brings the story to a very satisfactory conclusion. There is an excellent object lesson to bo found in Ibis subject, and, on this account, it is to be commended. A comedy, gazette, and travelogue will also bo shown Aliss Jacobs will render appropriate selections in her usual accomplished style.