AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 February 1928, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS PICTURES. '• LONG PANTS ’’-TO-NIGHT. Tlio stiir feature at the Princess i heat re to-ni<j;lit is "Long Pants,” .starring Harry Langdon. fFai i v is an adolescent who, in day dreams, |>iettiros liimsell as a Don Juan, and a man “ who 'hies hig tilings in a hijr wav.' However, lie feels that lief ore lie can win recognition of these hidden characteristics lie must persuade his mother to let him change from his knee breeches to long pants. When at last, this battle is won, he bicycles down the town street to give neighbours a chance to view this turning point in his life, lie 1 ides he a stalled car in which sits AI ni a lie n nett, a crook known to the police and the press as “The Princess.” He leels that this is the woman whose love will bring out the great soul that is in him. Amused, she plays up fe him, hut his mother is calling, and he dashes into the house to ask a few minutes grace, only to find his •• Princess ” gone when he returns to the road. -Meanwhile a neighbour and his wile are consulting Harry’s parents about the betrothal of Harry and their daughter Priscilla. Harry balks at the altar when he sees a newspaper store that his unknown sweetheart is in jail, lie goes to the rescue, only to lie jailed liimsell. In prison lie sits thinking nt bis mother and Priscilla, and realises that they are his real inspiration. Released, he marries Priscilla.