AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 August 1926, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS PICTURES.

BETTY COMPSOX —TO-NIGHT

Betty Compson lias the role of a girl who leads two lives in the Paramount picture, “New Lives for Old.” A famous Parisian dancer and a peasant girl on her aunt’s farm in Normandy at one and the same time is the role—or rojes, as you will, Betty Compson plays in her new picture to he shown at the Princess Theatre to-night. As the picture opens, we find Betty, as Olympe, in her cafe in Paris, the meeting place of soldiers on their way to the front, men on leave. The scene shifts and we see the girl in the little French village, attired in quaint costume, wooden shoes, etc.—quite a contrast to the bizarre Olympe, toast 1 of the French capital. Under those conditions, Betty meets Hugh Warren (Wallace MacDonald). His company is billetted on her aunt’s farm on their way up to the front. It’s a ease of love at first sight, and the girl promises to wait until he comes hack, little knowing just what part she is going to have in bringing him hack safely. Back in Paris, Betty becomes involved in the French Secret Service, and it is through her clever work in revealing a spy that Warren’s company is saved from sure destruction. Theodore TCosloff is the spy, in the picture, with Sheldon Lewis his accomplice. Both arc featured with MacDonald in support. Further chapters of the serial and a good two-reel comedy will also he shown. THE OPTIMISTS. UPTURN VISIT- SATURDAY. At the Princess Theatre on Saturday evening The Optimists Entertainers pay a return visit to Hokitika. Tliose who heard the Company on Monday last will have very pleasant recollections of them. Mr Sam Stern heads a brilliant- combination of International artists, and as a character comedian bis fame is world-wide. The company includes Peggy Peat (late of Williamson’s and Fuller’s Companies), an Australian songstress; Vcta Gilbert, dramatic soprano; Fi’ancis Cornwall, the prolific baritone; Stan. HiuTson-Airtli, the Beau Brummel of the company; Arthur Carlisle, operatic tenor; Marie Francis, a charming girl in song and dance; Nnnoya Baudinet soubrette and dancer; George Collins, popular baritone; Arthur Burns, England's favourite character actor; and The Harmony Trio, the Jazz Frazzlcrs. A recent criticism of the Auckland “Herald” said:—“The Optimists entertainment is clever, clean and refreshing.” The box plan is iffcw open at Mclntosh’s confectionery shop.