AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 April 1923, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

LOME'S PENALTY,” T] I URSDAA'. A special First National feature in six reels entitled "Love’s Penalty," starring the beautiful Hope Hampton, and all star east, will be the star attraction at the Princess Theatre on Thursday next. The story deals with a man'-, love for two sisters and who after some time marries another girl, lie threw love aside to wed a wealthy wife, and when he did he broke a girl's heart, but her sister sought atonement—won him from the other v, oman—holding him and leading him to an end that was her own, but ready to sacrifice herself, if only——. But it ! was a sacrifice she never made. The | picture is lull of surprises, sensations, smiles and sobs, fleeting through every reel. A fine supporting series will also ho screened including the latest I Gazette, a two reel comedy and an educational subject. McLEAN’S PBGTURES. BOHOTIiV DALTON TO-XIOHT. -Mr Ab le an presents at the Princess 1 heatre to-night, Dorothy Dalton in “The Crimson Challenge,” the latest Paramount photoplay to he shown. A Western picture in every sense of the word, it is packed with thrills, opportunities, since it calls for her to portray the courageous, fearless type of woman who leads the settlers of an oppressed valley against a man wlui preys upon the people—rustles their cattle, and perpetrates all kinds of outrages. And at the conclusion she heats him in a two-gun battle, rids the valley of its oppressors and incidentally avenges the murder of her father at the hands of the villain. The supports include a comedy and gazette with full orchestra. "SCANDAL." Of that rimrinotisly interesting comedy ‘■Scandal" which is to he .staged at the Princes-. Theatre to-morrow evening hv Harry I. Cohen, by arrangement with .1. C. Williamson, Ltd., the "Sydney Siiu"' has the following to say :—“Cosmo Hamilton has written with a sense of st-le and verity. It is easily the mosi workmanlike of all the ! bedroom conudi.s of the last ten years | and always |>rutlmrs a genuine, dramatic thrill. Von rarely feel tlm piere- , iug of situations. It is beautifully and audaciously wrought. \ irtually the whole third act is made with wit, sense and skill. There is more than a scare in ‘•Scandal.’’ They are human charm- < tors brilliantly composed ot nerves. , brains, and humor. "Scandal" aroused j much contriversy in Sydney and the four New Zealand centres, owing to the ' nature of the play. This did not. however. mitigiate against the success, hut rather tended to increase the interest < oil the part of the public to see it. I lie . opinion was that in staging “Scandal' < popular taste had been evidently m- , curately judged. The piece is w owletfully acted and has ail exceptionally strong cast. Besides Doris Duane, the leading liulv, an actress specially imported for' the production and Eric Harrison, whose work is always of the highest order, there are. m the cast , the following: Charles Morse. Harold Moran, .loin. Calv.ay. Eric Harris..,i. llraham Newton. Arthur Kills Lucy Carter Alarv .Martl regor. Cliflord Miller. The box plan is open at -Miss Mclntosh’s.