AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 June 1926, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS PICTURES. “ THE LAST AT AN on EARTH” —TO-NJGITT. \\ lint would you do if you wore the Inst man on earth? Or, if you are a woman what would you do if there was only one male upon this entire planet? This is the highly imaginative and tragically unit) no situation around which revolves “The Last Man on Earth.” coming to the Princess Theatre this evening. It is based upon the story by John I). Swain and directed hv Jack lily,stone. The story isset in 1050, when through a baffling disease called, • “ mnscculitis,” the world is denuded of all men. For ten years no child was born and a universe of women degenerated to the point where sport and crime were the two leading industries'. Dr Prodwell discovered a. vaccine to counteract the masculitis germ, but it was too late to do any good unless a man could he found. An expedition, led by .Miss Furlong, an explorer, traversed the world in search of an adult male, but without success. Then, by accident. a woman crook, leader of a notorious gang, stumbled upon a hermit living far away in the hills where he End fled to escape, temporarily, the arm of the law. She sells him to the nation for ten million dollars. The hermit, Elmer Smith, was a. womanhater as a result of the one woman in the world for him having refused to marry him. His reactions to the kidnapping and treatment after his forced return to civilisation are very amusing and entirely futile—-well, until .a big surprise happens. And that surprise is the climax of the whole film. The film story is a rather vigorous tost of the sincerity of that thoroughly feminine expression ; • I wouldn’t marry him if lie were the last man on earth.” No girl who sees it will be likely to make the statement again. Earle Fox plays the title role and otthers in the cast are Grace Cunard. Gladys Tennyson, Mary on Aye, (lari'sa Selwyii. Pauline French, 'William Steele, Jean Dumas, Harry Dunkinson. aF.v TToldernocs, Jean .Johnson, Buck Black and Maurice Murphey. There are 1,000 girls in support of this east.