MAORILAND PICTURES.

Otaki Mail, 20 January 1922, Page 2

MAORILAND PICTURES.

“DIVORCE OF CONVENIENCE.” FRIDAY NIGHT. The public to-day is tired or the piethrowing, mud-slinging typo of screen comedy. To get a laugh out ol' them these days you mast give them something clever, something which makes them feel sorry for the poor creature who is the brunt of the picture's humour; and if you have seen “The Poor Simp” and “The Chicken ip the Case," the famous Owen Moore comedies, you will realise that here is the man who has successfully filled the void left by Chaplain’s absence. And now comes the third laugh maker, “A Divorce of Convenience.” One can honestly say that be laughed more when it was screened in the cold projection room at the Censor Board tb&i* he had ever laughed over a Chaplin production. And that is saying something. “THE TIGER’S CUE.” TOMORROW NIGHT. Pearl White is seen in the title roll, and portrays most delightfully the character of a young girl born and reared amid the snow wastes of Alaska, and who never has known any companionship other than the rough types who inhabit these regions. When David Summers, a young Easterner, arrives in Alaska in search of his father, the Cub quickly recognises the kind of man she has intuitively felt existed somewhere; and friendship quickly ripens into a love which forced to fight its way at every step against gross brutality and worse. The manner in which happiness comes to the Cub and David and retribution overtakes the guilty is told in a series of tensely exciting, vividly human scenes that must be seen to be appreciated.