AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 November 1927, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS" PICTURES

•TKK HOAD I'D MANDALAY” —TO-NIOUT. Grim tragedy, gaunt realism, breallih .suspense, and one ol the most hen util ill love stories ever told, comhine Li> make a screen masterpiece of " The Hoad to Maud alay,” Lon Chaney's In test slurring vehicle, to he screened to-night at the Princess Tehatre. It is through the grim realism of this vivid mystery drama of the Orient that the love story, perhaps, is so forcible. ( honey plays a weird character ; a sea captain degenerated into a sinister light-scarred ruler of tin Oriental underworld. hiding in a strange dive on the Singapore waterfront, and secretly adoring an orphaned daughter who never learns tier parentage; a pathetic hit of realism injected into the colourful mystery. It is a story that lays hare human hearts, and Chaney rises to some magnificent heights of action; as the Lather torn between heavenly love and satanie environment. lie weal's nne of the most

gruesome disguises in his picturesque history, hut gains .sympathy through it

—a strange trick ut the dramatist and tlie actor’s own part. Lois Moran appears as the heroine of the new Metro-Oohlwyn-Mayer feature, and Owen Moore appears as "The Admiral." former navy officer. whose sense of shame brings about a regeneration. Kamiyania Soiin is a weirdly menacing figure as "Chinee Charlie Wing,” cliiel of the Oriental gangsters of Singapore. Colourful settings, strange costumes and varied races makes exotic scenes for the' action of this dramatic thunderbolt, which Tod 111-owning directed with rare artistry.

A good supporting series will also he shown, including a Topical, Scenic .and Comedy. Usual prices will he charged. Coining Friday next: Dorothy Muckaill and Jack Midhall in “Just Another lllonde.”

HAWAIIAN THOUII.VDOURS. Next Thursday, December Ist. Kaii’s Hawaiian Troubadours will entertain Hokitika music-lovers at the Princess Theatre. There is certainly variety among the artists who have joined tie’ Hawaiians since their tour of New Zealand two years ago. lam ( Darker, a dancer of the now lamous Black Bottom,’’ comes direct Horn Tail's cabaret in San Francisco, and has already danced her way into the hearts of the New Zealand people. aPß*} I9K?f | J \. • J Palmer Parker while touring Amdriea with another company last year, had his right hand injured. While in hospital he practised playing with his one hand, and finally, when he was released. he was able to play the steel guitar with one hand, and lie Inis received a very good reception wherever ho lias appeared, 'life Hawaiians, lie sides their versatility, are accomplished musicians, and as one sits and listens to their music, their singing and their it is easy to understand that much of the harmony they produce is horn ol their own inspiration and emotional feeling. They make even j ns/, appear something different, something more subtle, something much better than the tinny, whi/.-bang, slap-dash attair to which most of us are accustomed. The Hex Plan is now open at Miss Mel ntosli’s.