AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 April 1929, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS PICTURES.

“THE SHEPHERD OF THE HILLS’

TO-NIGHT

Real, living, breathing human character.l',—these are The screen’s most valuable enertainment elements, according to Director Albert Rogell. They have become basic in screen story telling, be maintains, and given them, through story characterisations and skillful acting, three-fourths of the battle to make good pictures is won. Rogell achieved such a result in the latest picture lie directed, “The Shepherd of . the Hills.” It is an elaborate screen dramatisation of the Harold Bell Wright novel. Humanness, Rogel points out, is the quality that made Harold Bell Wright’s novel head of the list of best-sellers for so long. It is due to their strong and realistic characerizntions that they have achieved such phenomenal popularity. The screen version of “The Shepherd of the Hills” is highly dramatic, and realistic reproductions of the picturesque Ozark character are its basic qualities.' Alec B. Francis, Molly O’Day, John Boes, Matthew Betz, Romano Fielding. Otis Harlan and other notable players supply them bringing, the characters of the booh to the screen with ’'are skill. (Further chapters of the popular serial “Blake of Scotland Yard” will also be shown together with the latest in topi cals and a first class comedy.