AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 January 1928, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS PICTURES. • ‘•BERTHA. THE SEWING MACHINE GIRL.” TO-NIGHT.

It i.s not always in the motion picture industry, that an actress draws precisely the kind of role she loves to portray, but according to her own confession, this is just what happened to Aladge Bellamy when Irving Cummings selected her to delineate the leading feminine role in “Bertha, the Sewing Machine Girl.” This Fox Films production, which comes to the Princess Theatre to-night finds the charming little star depicting the part of Bertha Sloan a girl of New York, who loses a job in a sweetshop only to firid herself, in rather unique surroundings, improving her lot in offices of the Diana Linger© Company. “It is the story of a girl’s heart.” said Miss Bellamy, “and 1 don’t think there is anything more interesting in our country than the heart of a modern girl. “When they told me about, the part I jumped at the opportunity to enact the role of Bertha, She i.s so human, so very much a vital part of the fabric of American life, that I felt 1 could do her full justice bccause'of the inherent love I bear for the average American girl. T was happy in the part and I’m sure I’m a better girl for the experience.” .Miss Bellamy is surrounded by a care-fully-selected cast Allan Simpson, who was seen opposite Virginia Valli in “The Family Fp Stairs,” has the chief masculine part. The “heavy i.s Paul Nicholson, who enacted a. similar role in “The Johnstown Flood.” Others in the cast arc Sally Phipps Anita Garvin, Many Bailey. ,1. Parrel MacDonald, Ethel Wales, and Arthur Hmisman. The adaptation is byErnest Maas and Irving Cummings. Continuity is by Gertrude Orr.