AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 May 1929, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS PICTURES. “THE DESERT WOMAN” TO-NLUHT. To the accompaniment of the primitinte elements ol the desert, Irene Rich depicts the terrific battle of the two most powerful kinds of love which may possess a woman’s being in “The'Desert Woman,” her newest starring vehicle for Warner Bros., directed by s Michael Curtiz. These are mate love and mother. love. She is seen as a woman wlid” lias left the luxurious, sheltered life of London society to become the wife of the commandant of an isolated outpost iirßritish India. After three years of desert existence and association with brutalised men, she welcomes a young soldier fresh from. home. Her husband is unreasonably jealous, and in the process of “making a soldier” of the lad, almost kills him, so when her husband has ' taken the garrison out on one of his raids on hostile natives, she persuades him to leave, and lie persuades her to accompany him. The love which has awakened between the two .comes to a climax in the desert when a storm, forcing them to halt, gives her time to think. Then it is that the mother in her rises to "dispute her right to hazard his career and happiness to gratify her infatuation and save her from tlie desert. She is older than he, old- enough to love him as a mother—young enough to love him as a sweetheart. The usual supports will also be shown to-night.

On Friday next Charlie Murray and George Sidney will appear in their latest big Comedy entitled “Flying Romeos” the second chapter of the great circus serial will also be included in the display.