AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 August 1928, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS PICTURES. “ FOOTLOOSE WIDOWS ” —TO-NIGHT. Husband-hunting in Florida is as fast and furious a game as ice hockey in Canada. But more dangerous, because the Florida game is played on the thin ice of bluff and borrowed frocks and empty pockets. At least, that’s the way it is played in “ Footloose Widows,” the Master Picture which comes to the Princess Theatre to-night, with the advance reputation of being one of the most cleverly written and deftly produced farce comedies of the season. It is a story of two

girls who get a supply of lovely gowns from the New York shop in which they work and who go to a big hotel in Florida with extravagant dreams of landing a millionaire apiece, the said millionaire to supply them all of their lives with yachts and pearls and motor cars and alt the other things their little hearts desire. To do this, the girls pose as wealthy widows. And they are making a go of it, when one of the girls gets her bait and her catch mixed up. The swift run of events in the land of palms and luxury makes exciting entertainment, full of original gags and gay surprises. Louise Fazenda is the star. But in this picture she is not the Fazenda of the pig-tails and short skirts. She is the supersophisticated New York specialty shop girl; fashionable from the tips of her highly polished rose-tinted nails to her smartly bobbed, 1928 model, permanently waved hair. She wears an amazing array of new Paris models in gowns. But the old Fazenda laughter is still there; more uproarious than over before. Jason Robards, the extremely handsome discovery among leading men, and Jacqueline Logan, the lovely heroine of many a photoplay, arc the featured players in Miss Fazenda’s support, which further includes Neely Edwards, Arthur Hoyt. Douglas Gcrrard, Jane Winton, Mack Swain, John Miljan, Eddie Phillips, and Henry Barrows. A good supporting series will also bo shown, including a topical, scenic and comedy. On Monday, “The I'nknown.”