AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 December 1930, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBQDYB PICTURES.

PUNCH AND SPICE IN THE PLOT OF “STRICTLY' MODERN.”

A plot with punch and spice features Dorothy Mackaill’s latest First. National starring vehicle, “Strictly jk Modern” The picture begins its local engagement at the Princes Theatre to-night and will introduce to many who have not seen him before the star’s new leading man, Sidney Blackmer. He had been a Broadway matinee idol for several seasons past, ,qiid is tbe husband of Lenore Ulrie. Modern’ is. based on the play “Cousin Kate, by Hubert Henry Davies. The plot, as it was adapted to the screen by Ray Harris and Gene Towne, deals with the intriguing adventures of a lady novelist, when she tries to live one of her “sexy” modern stories in rqal life. Dorothy Mackaill is said to have one of the most amusing characterisations the blonde favourite has ever portrayed. She gets into pecks of trouble trying to fictionise real life, and to regulate the love affairs of others as well. William A. Seiter, who has directed other successes in which Miss Mackaill starred ) mega-; phoned “Strictly Modern.” Heading!, the supporting cast with Blackmer aie Julanne Johnston, Warher Richmond, Mickey Bennett and Katherine Claire ’> Ward. Also four Shorts. Prices 2s and Is 6d, plus tax.