AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 June 1927, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS’ PICTURES

THE “LOVE GAMBLE. TO-NIGHT.

It was true at one time that hall the world never knew how the other half lived, but since the motion camera era,

all till- is changed. There opens at the Princess Theatre to-night a Banner Production, entitled “The Love Gamble” based on the novel. “Peggy From Beacon Hill.” by Maysic Greig. a young Australian newspaper woman, who lived in Boston while she wrote tlm story. It is a narrative of Beacon Hill, the Latin Quarter of Boston- which is much the same a- Greenwich Tillage. in New York, or the Yieux Carre in New Orleans. While the story happily ignores the obnoxious “villager” typo, it deals with tbe true Bohemian intent on making of life something more than a plaything. Lillian Rich, as the Beacon Hill girl who aspires to establish a business

•career and to come in contact with people who count, has a human role which she enacts strikingly well. Robert Frazer, as Douglas Wyman, the married man in love with Peggy, has just the right sang fro id. Die blase manner to which worldly men arc usually doomed, or with which they are blessed, all as one considers it. If there is a prettier fhvyor on the screen to-day than Pauline Caron, of the spun-gold hair and the rose petal complexion, something is wrong with her press agent. James Marcus, as tin l surly step-father has all the earmarks of the character, and the rest of the cast plays up in equally good form. The story tells of a girl who unwittingly falls in love with a married man. She is the owner of a half interest in a Beacon Hill coffee shop, patronized by society as well as by the long-haired boys and the shorthaired girls of storied “Hoboheniia.” When the man’s wife is murdered, lie is held responsible, and bis only alibi casts the shadow of disgrace upon the girl. How she solves the problem and saves tbe situation goes ii> present a dramatic episode in a superior fashion. A Topical, “The Ace of Spades” (serial) and a good Comedy completes a fine programme to-night.

On Saturday Elinor Glyn's “Soul Mates” will he presented.