AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 March 1927, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS’ PICTURES

LITTLE DORRIT,” TO-NIGHT

11 io story tlmt Jias liceii road by millions nli' over' the world, Charles Dickons' “ Little Dorrit,” will be shown at the Princess Theatre to-night. Ihe “Sunday Pictorial” says the new Xordi.sk picture “ Little Dorrit.” is a beautiful adaptation of an English classic wrought with reverence and artistry. And the more one reflects on this film, the more one is convinced that it is a i’andrnark in motion picture drama. Apart from its dramatic power, this Danish film is a technical masterpiece showing up the meretricious American film in all its flamboyant tawdriness. Naturally the whole of the Dickens’ novel has not been put on the screen, hut there is enough to keep faith with the novel, and ten times more than we find in the usual anaemic apology for a pVot in the average socalled film entertainment. In this film there is discovered in Karina Pell an artist of extraordinary beauty and ability. Her acting of little Dorrit Is one of the. really great achievements of the screen, and I am inclined to hail her as a miracle, i strongly suspect that Kailua Bell is an artist and a gentlewoman. F hope she will remain in Denmark, where film-making is really an art. and where film players take their work seriously and arc equal to it. L hope the “ Little Dorrit ” film will lie seen in every cinema, because it is inspiring entertainment and because technically it is far ahead of any picture I have seen in the past 12 months.

A topical and comedy will also he shown.

On Friday a Blue Streak Western “ The Phantom Bullet,” and the serial will form the chief attraction.