AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 November 1927, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS' PICTURES

M ANTE A P ” —AY ET)N ITS DA Y

Reversing the usual process mid going from flaj>pei - to campfire girl is the step taken by Clara. Bow in “ Mantrap." Paramount's pieturization of Sinclair Lewis’s latest novel, which conies to the Princess Theatre on Wednesday. Miss Bow begins as a typical jazzy flapper, working as a manicurist in a .Minneapolis harbor simp, whose job consists principally in kidding the " lmtter and egg men.” Then along comes ■•Joe Easier. ’’ played hy Ernest Torrence, the principal character at a Canadian trading post who has come to the ” big city ” for the lies! time in 15 years. He is so unusual that in a sudden whim she “ falls ” for Ids outdoor ways and strong manly kindness. Before she knows it. they are married, and settled in the North Woods, where campfires take tin- place of cabarets in furnishing an evening’s entertainment. Naturally a jazz girl can’t he expected to entirely adjust herself to this environment—and Clara doesn't. Percy Marmont, a young New York lawyer, comes there Itecause lie wants to get away from the women who are his clients in divorce cases. But he finds himself enmeshed in a love intrigue with -Miss Bow. flow this brilliant siory works itself out forms one ol the most, fascinating spectacular tales the screen has ever told.

The usual good supporting programme will also he shown, including a Topical. Scenic and comedy.