AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 August 1926, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBGDYS PICTURES.

“THE BELOVED BRUTE” TO-NIGHT.

“The Beloved Brute” which will he shon'ii at the Princess Theatre tonight is a picture of open spaces, the dance hall, the travelling circus and a near-lynching lice. It features Marguerite de la Motto, Victor MeLaglen, William Russell, Mary Alden. and .Stuart ..Holmes. Tt is filled with exciting situations that grow upon the mountain sides and plains. Two brothers love the same dance hall girl and one saves the other from being lynched by claiming to have committed a murder. In the finale the girl saves them both by proving neither of them committed it. The pliotodrama is an adaptation from the famous novel l>v Kenneth Perkins made into a screen production by J. Stuart Blacktou. Marguerite de la Motte heads the cast in the pieturisation. “The Beloved Brute’’ has at once the tang of the sawdust ring and the breath of the frontier, while developing an alluring romance. It has been described as “a Western that’s different”—so different, indeed, that its appeal is certain to be to every class of picture lovers. The film is remarkably faithful to the novel, which enjoyed a heavy sale from the beginning. A power-plus romance of Western dance-halls —and of a circus-girl whose .sparkling eyes and twinkling feet set two brothers fighting for love her love! A Topical and a comedy complete a fine display tonight.

THE OPTIMISTS. Hokitika will again have an opportunity of seeing and hearing The Optimist Entertainers at the Princess Theatre on Saturday night next when a change of programme will be submitted. Sam Stern will he heard in another budget of catchy numbers which will include the dramatic “Hell Gates of Soissons,” by Herbert Kaufliann. A one-act comedy “P.C. Cohen’’ will he included in the bill of fare. “The Optimists’-’ locally fulfilled their gloomdispelling mission at the Princess Theatre on Monday when they appeared in a bright, sparkling programme, which was well received. There was much comedy of the highest order, while the vocal numbers were most pleasing. Sam Stern again put his audience in merry mood in character songs from his extensive repertoire containing incidentally many items of his own composition. His delineation of the Jewish type is particularly clever and diverting. Miss Peggy Peat will delight all with her singing.