AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 June 1927, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS' PICTURES •' MADAME SANS GENE"" TO-NIGHT. One of the greatest receptions e/ei accorded an actress was given to Gloria Swanson on her return to America from France, where she played the stellar role in Paramount's lavish production of “Madame Sans Gene.” With .Miss Swanson was her husband, the Marquis do le Falaiso do la Coudraye, whom she met and married in Paris. From the moment she set loot in New York to the time she arrived in Hollywood to start on her new picture for Paramount. the route was one long list r,.f receptions and enthusiastic welcomes. Gloria Swanson's new Paramount picture ‘‘.Madame Sans Gene” the story of a French laundress who befriended Napoleon in the days of his poverty and was remembered 'by him in his days of prosperity and power, opens at the Princess Theatre to-night. Catherine was pretty and outspoken. She didn’t know -and if she had known, probably would not- have cared—that her impecunious customer was one day to he the greatest figure in the world. Napoleon lived at the Hotel des Patriots, near her shop, and he owed her as well as oilier tradespeople, a long score. When he went into the laundrF one day, she was about to ask him for payment when she noticed that bis shoos were worn and that bis bare foot showed through. So she simply added the amount to the list and said nothing. Napoleon, it is said, forgot the bill, hut he never forgot her. She married a young sergeant, named Lefehvre. and many years Inter Catherine and her husband 'became the Duke and Duchess of Danzig, the former sergeant: being made a marshal of France. Catherine never lost her habit of plain speaking, and it is history that the tattered and unpaid laundry bill was oiioo used by her to prevent France from committing a grave diplomatic blunder. It makes an absorbing story, this chronicle of Napoleon and Madame Devil-May-Care. A Topical and Comedy will also be shown. Oil Tuesday, Aiken Pringle in “The Wilderness Woman” will be the star attraction.