AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 January 1926, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EYERYBQDYS PICTURES.

daughters OF PLEASURE.’ TO-NIGI-m TO-NIGHT!

Not fora longtime have local picture fans scon a screen production packed "'ith as much drama and replete with as many thrills as “Daughters of Pleasure,” a big new photoplay, presented by I',. !>'. Zeidman, and distributed through the Principal Pictures Corporation, which opens at the Princess Theatre this evening. The new picfells an interesting story, chuck full of “human interest” and heart appeal. IL deals with a family which, after experiencing years of frugality, suddenly finds itself riding to untold wealth on the crest of an oil boom. With an opportunity to roach out and grasp anything they may desire, the members of the family throw all precaution to the winds and whirl around madly in the new found whirlpool of wealth. Of course, there must he some reaction

and it is here that the photoplay develops an interest far above the ordinary picture. The head of the family, Mark Hadley, begins to think that life holds out more for him than the devoted affections of the little woman who has stood by him through thick and thin, lie searches for younger and livelier affections. .Meantime his beautiful daughter finds herself apparently transported to a new world. Luxuries enhance her natural beauty and she also sets out in search of new thrills. Jn searching she discovers the duplicity of her father. From then on the picture has one dramatic thrill after another.

t he girl's denunciation of her parent, her thrilling challenge, “like father, ■'ike daughter,” her decision to forget propriety and true love and respect comes to the man she intended to throw herself away on, furnish a story that cannot ho excelled for drama, logic and consistency. The cast which has boon assembled scintillates brilliantly. •Mario Prevosl and Monte lilue, both stars in their own right, play the lending roles. Never has either appeared to better advantage. Miss Provost has several big dramatic moments and

to all of them with supreme art is-

try. Iter beauty and charm only furIheir enhance her excellent pantomime, lilue appears as the dissolute young member of society whose redemption proves one of the big high spots of the production. The members of the supporting east are also excellent in their •haracterir.ations. Wilfred Lucas gives ■a exceptionally clever performance as the elderly man who forgets all restraint when wealth is thrust upon ' iic. Fdyih Chapman makes a most lovable and devoted wife and mother, and Clara Bow, described ns “the perfect flapper,” has an appeal that is a perfect excuse for any man trying to keep (it at fifty.

On Friday a First National Mighty Super Drama “Red Lights” with an all-star caste and further chapters of the serial : “The Steel Trail.”