AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 October 1927, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS* PICTURES

LADIKS AT PLAY” FRIDAY

Dons Kenyon and Lloyd Hughes are •starred in “ Ladies at Play ” at the Princess Theatre on Friday. Novelty of plot and variety of emotional appeal that ranges from light comedy to pathos mark “Ladies at Play,” a sparkling comedy-drama from First National, which is the feature offering at. the Princess Theatre this Friday. Doris Kenyon and Lloyd Hughes are featured with a cast of exceptionally strong supporting players notable among whom are Philo McCollougli, J l-ouise Fazenda, Virginia Lee Corbin, Hallam Cooley, John Patrick and Fthel Wales. The story, an adaptation ol a stage play by Sam Janney, was directed b.v Alfred 1*:. Cfreen, and made under the production manage-!

meat of the noted producer, B. P. Fineman. A fast-developing plot deals with the inheritance by the heroine of six million dollars with the provi : that she marry a man who meets with flic approval of her two spinster aunts. Inasmuch as the latter were expecting to share the fortune themselves, they determine to make the heroine’s task of finding such a man a hard one. To solve the situation, the heroine deliberately compromises herself with n man who unwillingly becomes her accomplice. The aunts, however, do not insist that she marry the man; they | think such conduct should be punished by disinheritance! From the first flicker to the fade-out kiss. " Ladies I

at Play ” keeps the audience guessing It’s not a mystery play, but a comedy drama with many plot kinks and sur prises as well as laughs. It’s a Firsi National offering featuring Doris Ken yon. Lloyd Hughes and Louise Fazenda, and will lie shown at the Princess theatre on Friday together with the latest in topicnls. a good comedy, and further chapters of the new serial, “The Winking Idol.”