AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 March 1927, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYfIODYS 5 PICTURES “ SIBERIA,” TO-NIGHT. Bringing to tlio silver sheet the most faithful transcript of Russian life ever presented by a motion picture produce)-, “Siberia,” a Victor Schertzinger production, will be the Fox Films headliner at the Princess Theatre tonight. Alma Rubens and Edmund Lowe, two ol the most sincere screen players in America, are starred. They are supported by one of the best east’s ever assembled. “ Siberia,” which is a stupendous tihn version of Bartley Campbell? s thrilling play of the barren prisons of Russia, was produced at tremendous cost and represents the most painstaking effort upon the part of Mr Schertzingev and his assistant directors. Tine story is compellingly dramatic. Miss Rubens, cast as Sonia V ronslcy, is seen as the daughter of a mighty overlord who feasts upon the fat of the. land while the humble peasants starve. This condition, highly repugnant to the sensitive daughter and her delicate brother, reaches the first of a. several crises when Sonia rebels and tel'ls her father her heart is with the people and not with the Russian overlords. Impotent. with rage, the elder Vronsky accuses the girl iuid Tier brother of worshipping at the shrine of Tolstoy and drives them from his home. , From this moment forward the screen-play is shot through with dramatic« sequences. Edmund Lowe, Tom Santschi, Lou Tellegcn, Paul Panzer ivud others who figure in those sequences bring to tlieir respective tasks a dramatic finesse seldom seen in motion picture productions. A good comedy and the latest in topicals will also be presented. On Thursday Charles Dickens’ world famed story - of “ Little Dorret,” will be the special attraction.