AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 July 1926, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS PICTURES.

“THE HOME MAKER”—TO-NIGHT

At last wo. have a picture play of homo file with both wife and husband sticking to the straight and narrow l K ‘th. The lover and the mistress arc both missing and in “The Home Maker. ’ Universal-Jewel production now showing at tin. l I’rinccss Theatre wo find a home-like story that might just as well be from your life or mine. Universal is featuring Alice Joyce and Clivo Brook in this intensely gripping picture play of a man and wife each dissatisfied with their respective tasks, lioth Miss Joyce and Mr Brook are splendid and deserve all the praise given them in. the advance notices. Ilie same can be said of the supporting players, for Universal has brought together an unusually bell-balanced cast. “The Home Maker” is the screen version of Dorothy Canfield’s wonderful story of the sam© name. It is a picture that every one will enjoy seeing | for it tells of facts, incidents and persons that are ns familiar to us all as are the members of our family. AVholesomo and interesting from start to finish, without one suggestive hit in it, “The Home -Maker” is also unique i" that it ends in an unusual manner. King Baggot, who directed the making of the picture, has departed from the conventional movie ending and has given us a dramatic and unusual climax. It leaves tho audience with something to think about. In Era Knapp, the role assumed hv -Miss Joyce, wo have the wife whom housework makes disgruntled and who • is efficiency itself.. The ladies at Urn Guild say “She is a better man than her husband.” In Lester Knapp, the part played by Brook, we .see the clerk struggling at a job lie hates. Ho would rather write verse or novels and his office associates think him an upstart. Both are misjudged, for they are only square pegs in round boles. In Mrs Anderson, who is none other than Martha Mattox, there is a wonderful realistic picture of the borrowing neighbour, free with her advice, and in Dr Merritt, George Fawcett, wo see that fast disappearing type, the olcl-l'as'hioned family doctor. Physicians will be interested in Dr. Merrib for lie meets and answers a serious problem. Tho Knapp children are just like any other American children and their roles are wonderfully played in Billy Kent Shncffcr, Maurice Murphy and little Jacqueline Wells. Others in the large east «ho should be mentioned for tho work include Frank Xcwberg, Lloyd Witlock, Margaret Campbell, Alfred Fisher, Alice Flowers, Virginia Boardinan, Elaine Ellis and Mary Gordon. A topical and a comedy will also be shown, also selections by Miss Williams’ orchestra.