AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 December 1925, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

HVERYBODYS PICTURES. “LOVE AND GLORY”— WEDNESDAY. “Lovo and (’dory,” Rupert JulianUni vcrsnl-Jewol production coming next Wednesday to the Princess Theatre, presents a distinct novelty in the way nt screen entertainment in that its characters live through (ifty year lapse of time, The three featured characters, portrayed hy Charles ])e Roche, Wallace .MacDonald and Madge Relhuny, are introduced in the story as young peasant folk in a French village. In the closing scenes of the lilm play they appear in the make-up of persons seventy years of age. So real is the transfiguration that it is said to lie difficult to Itelieve that the characters are portrayed by the same players. It is a triumph for the actors, as well as the director. Pietorially the production is one of the most beautiful of the year. Gilbert Warrentun, credited on the screen with the photograph, can take many a how fur iiis skillful camera work. Fundamentally it is a war time romance, woven around incidents of the Franco-Pru.x-sian war. hut there is little of actual war revealed on the screen. One sequence of the picture, however, reflects a desert engagement between Zouaves and Arabs and it is colorful and dramatic. carrying one of the biggest thrills of the story. The screen play is an adaptation of the novel, "We Are French.” written by I’crley I'oorc Sheehan and Robert Davis. Other featured players are Gibson Guwlantl, Kurd Sterling, Charles De Ravenue and Priscilla Dean Moran.

On Friday "The Side Show of Rife’' will he screened. Finest Torrence has realised one of flic ambitions of his life. He has played the role of Petit Patou, the famous clown character of William Locke’s novel, ‘G he Mounthack.” in the Herbert Brenmi Paramount production. “The Sideshow ol Rife.” in which he has a teatured role with Anna Q. Nilsson, and which will he shown next Friday at the Princess Theatre. ‘'Long before the hook was produced as a play and before Famous Players houglii tin 1 pic-1 lire rights I had cherished mi ambition to play the part of Andrew Lackaduy, the clown.” Torrence. said, “and it was villi much satisfaction and gratification that I put on my make-up to-day. Gui you blame me for being happy!' Min'd he too, if you had fulfilled a liie-bnig ambition.” There’s a big cast ot prominent players playing in support. “ C'APPY KICKS.” THURSDAY NEXT. Hokitika theatregoers will have an opportunity of seeing lor the first time here. Peter P,. Kyiie's dramatisation of his famous hook at the Princess Theatre on Thursday evening, under the direction of Phillip Lytton, Ltd. Although the title of the hook is a household word throughout the Dominion, a brief outline of the stage version -liould prove interesting. I lie story has to do with the adventures of Atatt Pcasley. a determined young sailor, first male of the Retriever, who successfully overcomes the efforts of his employer. C'app.v Kicks, to keep him from rising in the ,shining world, and it makes capital material. The master of the vessel is killed at Capetown, and I'easlev brings the ship home to San Francisco. Ricks is about to turn the young sailor adrift, when I’easlev quits him voluntarily, and starts a shipping venture, for hinisell. Ihe story increases in liveliness and interest as the shipping battle progresses. Running with this sharp contest of wits then* is a highly entertaining ivnuinre. for Beasley 'alls in love with Cappy’s daughter Florrie.

girl herself under the assumed name of Goldie (Hake, enters merrily into the war between her father and Beasley. not on the side of her parent, hut to give financial aid to Pcasley, wlc does not know the relationship. Ultimately Gappy acknowledges that lie has found a .son-in-law after his own heart. The complete organisation will be seen hero and will be produced on the same extensive scale that characterises the performance in all J. ('. Williamson's motroplitnn theatres. The box plan is open at Miss Mclntosh's.