AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 August 1927, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS 1 PICTURES

“Marriage license TO-NIGHT !

•‘Marriage License” Fox Filins version of the Broadway success, *• ’J'ho -Pelican, ’ with Alma Rubens ni the featured role, comes to the Princess Theatre to-night. Tliis intensely dramatic story has the sacrifice of a. beautiful woman for her son as its theme, and is considered by all who have seen it to be one of the most absorbing stories of its kind ever filmed. Miss llubens plays the featured role, appearing first as a young bride who finds herself disliked by her husband’s people, the Heriots. Later she is accused unjustly and divorced by her husband because of their influence. Y hen they deny the parentage of her child .she leaves England. After a lapse of eighteen years she is shown in Franco where she has raised the boy to believe that bis father is dead. She li is sent him away to school where I strangely enough he has chummed with Guy Cheriton, the only son of the Heriot lawyer. The urge to become a soldier prompts him to bring bis <-s>ty and the older Cberiton home to plead with his mother to allow him to attend Sandhurst. The lawyer manages to convince her that she should allow him to take the boy to England to see Marcus Heriot, his father, now a power in the War Office, as a friend of Guy’s. She consents on condition that he will not reveal the boy’s identity. The grandfather, now an invalid, with his memory totally gone, recognises the boy as bis own son, and so lends to his identification. This leads to Marcus taking the hoy hack to Franco in an effort to effect a reconciliation. Tn the meantime the mother lias fallen in love with a Frenchman and has definitely set the date for their marriage. Then conics her first husband with bis offer of remarriage which means her boy’s future. She must cliooso between her own happiness and her boy’s future and her choice forms the big climax of the picture. Walter AfcGrn.il plays the part of Marcus. M alter Pidgeon is the Frenchman and Richard Walling is the boy, Robin. Emily Fitzroy, Charles Lane. Edgar .Norton. George Cowl, Langborne Burton. Lon Poff. Patsy O’Byrne, Billie Latimer, Arthur Rankin and 7'lrie Mil yne complete the east.