AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 March 1926, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS PICTURES. “THE PAINTED LADY.”—TO- ' XICHT. You hoar tiie South Seas as iu a shell; you see exotic life ami love as in a minor in “The Painted Lady, - ’ the William Fox special screen version of Larry I‘lvans’ Saturday Evening Post story that aroused .so much comment at the time, of publication. “The Painted Lady,” in which those twin screen favorites, George O’Brien and Dorothy Muekaill are featured, comes to the Princess Theatre tonight. The story starts in a big seaport city and poignant drama conies into and suddenly changes the lives of Violet and of Luther Smith at the samo time, without their ever having heard each other. Yet in the romantic, mysterious, treacherous South Sea Isles. Fate ties them up in a lover’s knot, when they meet, that no man can ’put them asunder. Violet, innocent, driven by the World’s hounding and hunger to the luxurious life of a Painted Lady, cruises to the languorous South Sea Tslc.s on a millionaire’s yacht. Luther, finest type of manhood, driven bv a vow of ven-

geance. sails for Southern Isles big with Fate as first mate of a schooner whose captain, unknown to Inin, is the Sea Wolf who ruined his little sister and drove her to her death, cans, ing their mother to die of grid. \ inlet and Luther, Manhunler and I’ainied Lady, meet under Southern skies, pate soldom wove a liner, more dramatic plot with supreme picture possibilities. The story up to their first big passionate South Sea love scene alone would he hailed as a great special picture, to say nothing of what happens after the typhoon when the three, including the Sea Wolf, meet, again oil the outcast Isle of Failures. Xo man or woman, young man or girl, married or unmarried, should miss the tine, wholesome. message and moral of this modern Magdalen, “The Painted Lady.” It appeals to the 'host and highest in manhood and womanhood.”