AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 April 1926, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBQDYS PICTURES. the scarlet honeymoon WEDNESDAY. Tn "Tlie Scarlet Honeymoon,” the William Fox picture which opens at the Princess Theatre on Wednesday. Sliirley Mason ihas been given a chance to act with all her natural winsomeness and charm. TJie director responsible lor this gratifying occurrence is none other than Allan Hale, famous screen villain who lias temporarily forsaken Ihe grease paint for the megaphone, He has taken a slice of real life and developed it sincerely and naturally, lie has taken an average American fain, ily and made it act as a. family would act. He has taken ivay Thorpe, a cheerful, clean-minded little .stenographer, and has plunged her into a romance which made all her fairy tales come true—ami yet has resisted the temptation to make it a lurid or impossible romance. There are no vampires in this picture. There arc no wild leaps Irom dill’s to escape a pursuing villain. There is no ‘'eternal triangle.” In I act there is nothing in it which couldn’t happen to any little stenographer in almost any city. And that’s the chief charm of the film. The family scenes abound in honest humour. How could they help it with J. Farrell MacDonald in the role of father, and with big Alan Sears cast as an egotistical automobile salesman who is playing court to the other sister ? 'The love scenes are also well done, though they consist entirely of stolen kisses in Kay’s front hall. Her lover is from the Argentine, where, as she says herscll, "all the great lovers come from..” I’icnv Cknulmn, cast in that role, gives

a most ronvinein" performance. ()11>its in tins cast aiv Knp;enia Gilbert, !!osc lapley. .Maino Geary, Kric Mayuo ami Fnlalie .Jensen, 'f’he story was writlon by I'iinny Davis. It opens in the Argentine' with Pedro Fernando, son ol a tine old South American family, starting out for Xow York where

lie is to learn tlie- business in his fatli<'r's paciking company, it shifts 'to a liroiuhviiy automat, where Pedro lirsl sees Kay Thorpe, and makes her

acquaintance by lcnot-Uin*jf down a man who wax anuuyiug lier. There follows a so nos ol diimors and dances in which the mutual attraction of the two people ripens into real love, and eventually Pedro is presented to Kay’s family. In the meantime, his family at home is worried hy the fear that the girl he writes about in such glowin',; terms is moved hy mercenary motives. Senor Fernando evolves a. plan to test her and find whether or not she is true blue. Of course she is. "id all ends happily—but before that there siro many interestin'; and often wnusing eomplieations. A topical and omedy complete the programme. On Thursday the world’s greatest ■omedy "('harleys’s Aunt.” will be prosen ted.