AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 February 1926, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS PICTURES.

OKING UESPECTABLI —TO-NIGHT.

Being Respectable ” is a highly entertaining treatment of :i little social problem which touches every man. woman and cliiid in every community under the sun. It challenges the " I-don't-care-whit l-it-eople-think-of-me" mood in vvljicli till of us liml ourselves at times, ami shows conclusively that, whether we will or not, we are all tightly hound by the bunds of convention—and that those bonds of convention are constantly saving ns many a heart-ache. .Monte Blue and .Marie Provost, those favourite screens artists who hate been appearing together in leading roles so frequently of late, are prominent in the east. Louise Fazenda. Irene Kieli and Theodore Yon Kltz are other players of importance. " Being Respectable,” the screen version of the (Lace Handrail host seller, is the story of a group of people who rebelled against respectability, and then rebelled against their anti-respectability. This .Master Picture shows that respectability has a tinner hold on people than they themselves realize. What is the most formidable word in the English language '■ It is .Respectability. And what is the most calumniated and despised word in the same tongue I- The answer is identical. Everything depends on whether the person using the word belongs to the left or right wing of society, whether he moves in society with a capital S. or whether lie is radically and unconventionally inclined. ’Warner Brothers have made a picture out of the best seller dealing with the theme of respectability. They have adapted Grace Handrail's best seller. •• Being Respectable." dealing with persons who dclied ('(invention, and had to pay the price.

On Friday nexi Moot Gibson will he s( en in his latest Western thriller, "’rhe Hurricane Kid," and on Saturday next a Paramount special will he presented starring Beatrice Joy in "Changing Husbands.”

" ABF YOF A .MASON r” The above J. ('. Williamson success which is being presented bv the D. Jb O'Conor combination of comedians at lUe Princess Tehutre fon Wednesday next. Feb. tilth, is probably unique as regards plot. Frank Perry, a young man id’ gay habits promises his wife when she goes lor her holidays that he will join her Masonic Lodge by the time she returns. She has a particular reason tor this, as her father. Amos Blackwood, is a Grand Master of the Lodge. Perry is too luisv having a good time while his wife is a wav to wrrry about .Masonic Lodges, and when she returns he paints a fanciful picture of the initiation at the Lodge, etc. His wife is perfectlv satisfied at the explanation, and then she gleefully ini onus him, that l:e will soon meet a brother Mason, site having just received word that her father (the afore-mentioned Grand Master) is arriving at the house that day. Perry is completely “ oiitvd." hut determines to Idnll' ii out. Father then arrives and his daughter tells him that his son-in-law. Frank Perry, has recently become a Mason. Father immediately collapses as he is a deceiver also, he having pretended for nearly twenty years that lie is a Mason so that he can gel out at night for a game of poker and pretend he was at Lodge. Ihe two supposed Masons meet, and Ken tilings being h> happen. Thee hol'li watch carh oilier for Masonic signs, and l!;e excruciatingly funny .situations keen the audience in one con tin in in ■ mu r of laughter. Musical numbers are well in keeping wiili (be red: of He story, and II e whole collection ol tun and melodv makes a wonderful evening's enjoyment. The boxplan will he on view at Misses MCTII- - on Monday morning nexl. when seals msv he reserved without exlr.a charge.