AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 December 1925, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS PSCTURES. “ MONSIEUR BEAUOAIRE ” -TO-NIGHT. IT tho word “super production” line! nut been so sadly abused and misused. would be sorely tempted to apply it to Rudolph Valentino’s latest Paramount picture ' .Monsieur lieaueaire.” which is due to-night at tlic Princess lln*:ifro. 1 ,- or il ever a picture deserved superlatives, it surely Is this screen play, which is adapted from Booth Tnrkington's gloriously huintin

story, and which reaches the silversheet via the directorial guidance of Sidney Oleolt. .Imagine the love inter-

est of “The Sheik,” the romantic colouring of '• Blood and Sand ” and the spectacle of “ The Four Horsemen “ comhined in one photoplay, and you begin to understand why “.Monsieur Beatmaire ” is a photo drama of amazing beauty and power. To the sttt-. dents of history it will be an inspiration; lo the school-boy it will he ;.n education, and to the blase film fan it will be a revelation. All the pomp mil magnificence of the court of Louis XV .. notorious for iis love affairs, its intrigue, honour and vice! The scheming Mine. Pompadour, the dissolute King, the .crafty Biehelioit—they live once more! And there isn't a man or a woman will fail to sympallose and with the merry, dashing Duke do Chartres, with all his amours and all his fights! Verily, it is a role that, only Valentino can play to perfection! As for tho supporting east, it may well he set up as a standard of excellence, including, as it does. Bobo Daniels. Losi Wilson, Doris Kenyon, Lowell Sherman, Tan Maelaren, John Davidson, Paulette Duval and many, many others famous on stage and screen. Film fans, you who rave about the great pictures you nave scon, see “ Monsieur Beaiicaire,” and you will have something to rave a bout! On Friday Thomas Meighan will appear in bis latest Paramount special “ The Alaskan” and on Saturday another Paramount, '‘The Confidence Man.”