AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 October 1928, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS PICTURES. ‘ 1 WHITE SLIPPERS ’’-TO-NIGHT At the Princess Theatre to-nigh ! Master Pictures present Mathoson Lang, with Joan Loc ktdn, in “ White Slippers ” (from the story by Char (ton Lawrence Edliolm). The fact tlmt trmentions possibilities may be bound up with little tilings forms the keynote o “White Slippers,” for a crumpled char and a pair of well-worn satin slippers lead Lionel Hazard, the hero, hit strange company, high adventure innumerable perils, and the realms-ot romance. With the aid of the char! Hazard eventually gains a treasure and. with the aid of the slippers lie eventually gains a wife. The film,is adapted (from a story by Charlton Law reneo*Edliolm. It was "produced Ir Sinclair Hill, and the role of the he—is filled by Matheson Lang,, whose popularity as an actor is quite as great in the cinema as in the theatre. Joan .1/nekton, who started her professional career five years ago as a chorus girl at the'Winter Garden, and who. as the heroine of “ White Slipeprs,’ plays a leading part on the screen for the firs time in her young life, has been vote’ a veritable "'.'find ” by the critics;; amk this “ English Mary Pickford.” as she has been called, is certain to'achieve a tremendous popularity. There are no fewer than five villains in the story and these are impersonated by'Gordon Hopkirk, Hugh Westlake,-J. Neb-on Ramsay, Arthur McLaglen and Charles Barratt. Th*e exterior scenes in Hm picture are filmed largely in Cornwall and on hoard a schooner off the Cornish const. “White Slippers” is a wonderful entertainment and a British pictur of exceptional quality. It is a story o 4 the sea, with many villains-dogging the stops of a fearless hero. A topical, scenic and comedy will complete a fine programme to-night.