AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 June 1926, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBGDYS PICTURES. "SACKCLOTH AND SCARLET.” TO-NIGHT. A Paramount picturisation of the novel by George Gibbs, featuring Alice Terry and others, which opens at the Princess Theatre to-night is a big human theme. One of two girls, orphan sisters, have but one thing in common, unusual beauty. Polly kicks over the traces and goes West in •search of adventure and engages in a brief love affair with a hotel guide. She returns to New York and tells Joan (Alice Terry) a secret. The pair go to France where baby Jack is horn. .Joan rises splendid for the occasion and becomes devoted to the child from the very first, Polly hates the sight of him. For six years Joan cares for little Jack n.s if he were her own. There is a great deal of gossip and the girl, to shield her younger sister, takes it all. Later Joan grasps the opportunity to go hack to America with friends. They live in Washington where the girl meets and falls in love with a Congressman. She has nr idea that he is really the father of little Jack. Their romance progresses rapidly until Polly returns. There is instant recognition between her and Edwards, and, for the time at least, Joan’s little bubble of happiness hursts. Everything is straightened out—Joan turns to Edward as the picture closes.

A Topical, serial and comedy will also he shown.

Coming Saturday : A good detective story, "the Leavenworth Case.’’