AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 June 1927, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS’ PICTURES “A JiROADWAY BUTTERFLY."--“A Broadway Butterfly." the attraction that is being offered at the Princess Tlieatro to-morrow night i.s a Warner Bros, classic of the screen, and the latest picture directed by William Beaudine, that master ol directors. Mr Beaudine's phenomenal success these last two years has proven

an unfailing argument in favour of those motion pictures that he directs, and in “A Broadway Butterfly," his latest effort, movie-goers may anticipate an interesting, fast moving photoplay, well told and excellently directed. The story of “A Broadway Butterfly” was written and adapted for the screen by Darryl Francis Znnuek—who. incidentally, is the youngest scenario writer in Hollywood—and in the production of the picture Air Beaudine went the limit in choosing players to enact the dramatic, comic

and pathetic romance of a small-town girl who comes to Broadway for fame and renown, l.ouise Fazenda, Lilian Tashigan and Dorothy Devore are the female stars chosen to portary three chorus girls of varying types—one being ordinary Broadway, the other on the glittering street, hut not of it, and the third a newcomer and novitiate in the ceaseless round of gaiety that makes night of day. AA illiard Louis, Cullen Landis and John Roche form the fast-stepping hand of rounders who make liie interesting lor show girls. Tn addition to these six stellar players. Wilfred Lucas and Eugenie Gilbert have also been given roles in the production. Jewels of brilliant beauty ; iridescent joys that bubble as gladlv as champagne —that's Broadway when the curtain rises on its round of pleasures that stretell from the first haste of twilight until the hist tiny star has. gone and morning dawns on the cold, dreary remains of the party. But, youth and its eternal romance t,-Jumps in “A Broadway Butterfly,” the new Wiarncr picture which will be shown at the Princess Theatre xomorrow night. The usual supporting subjects will also he shown. On Friday “The Love Gamble.” adapted from the novel by Alaysie Greig. On Saturday Elinor Glyn's “Soul Mates."