AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 April 1925, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

McLEAN’S PICTURES. “THE REJECTED WOMAN.”— FRIDAY. v. Ate Lean’s present on Friday night a special attraction starring Conrad Nagel and Alma Rubens in “The Rejected AYoman,” The story tells when Diane came to New York a solitary figure of a North Woods girl, poorly dressed, unskilled in the ways of the metropolitan butterflies, she found John Leslie not quite as receptive as he had been during their idyllic romance in the wilds of Canada. Diane could not forget the day when John’s aeroplane made a forced landing in her little village. The wealthy young man End f“He,r madly in love. Happy days they spent- together, until a radio broadcast from New York and received in tlio North, told of the death of John’s father and requested that a search bo made for the missing heir. Now John was too busy burning up Broadway, wining and dining the mad Youth of society with whom Diane couldn’t hope to contend with her meagre wardrobe. One of the Leslie executors, an unscrupulous employee of the deceased millionaire, perceiving Diane’s difficulty and harboring a secret love- for her himself, arranges fo send her abroad for a- year to gain the confidence that beautiful clothes and culture can give a girl in her fight for the man 6ho loves. In Paris John meets Diano, radiant and beautiful in her new clothes and surroundings. Their courtship continued once more comes to flower when they return to America. But Dunbar is even more eager now for the gorgeous Diane. And by tho the terms of the Leslie will if John marries without tbe approval of the executors, the entire estate goes to charity. Dunbar taunts Diane with the source of her new found glory. John defends her, and to prove his faith, marries tbe conscience-stricken girl. Dunbar now produces cancelled checks showing that- lie paid Diane’s expenses, and John, believing his story, rushes away. Diane returns to her squalid homo in the North. She is traced there bv the wicked Dunbar, who now hopes to gain her good will. They arc alone in the- cabin. Dunbar attacks the girl, when suddenly her husband crashes through the door. John has learned of Dunbar’s duplicity, and arrives in time to save the girl who truly loves him. The landing of the All Blacks in Wellington forms a, specially fine addition to the programme. The scenes depict the landing, the welcome by Mr Massey and shows many other notables of that stirring reception. Comedy and gazette and full orchestra.

MASTER PICTURES. 01 ’ERA HO USE—-FRIDAY. Mac Murray in "Fashion Row”, her new Tifl’any production for Metro release will he the stellar attraction at the Opera llon.se mi Friday night. Written for Miiss Murray by Sadu Cowan and Howard Iliggin, “Fa ion Row” gives the popular Metro star the interesting dual role of two sisters. One of them is the famous Olya (Farinova, toast of Broadway, and the other is .a grubby, little Russian peasant girl mimed Zita, who comes to America to find her sister. On the immigrant steamer Zita meets a sinister figure named Kaminotl'. To Kaminotf the shows a photograph of her sister, and its unmistakable resemblance L> a. dancing girl he once knew in a Russian dive brings hack to Kaminotf hitter memories. So he plans to make Zita the instrument of It is revenge, and in New York quarters her on the East Side with Papa and Mama Levitsky. Olga Farinova, meanwhile, lias given up her stage career to marry young Eric Van Corlaml, son of one of Knickerbocker's oldest and most aristocratic- families. The couple plan a Russian masked hall on the Van Corlaml estate, ami so that the party may have a real Russian flavour, Jimmy Morton, who is Erie’s friend, goes to the Levitsky’s to procure real vodka. He meets Zita and is suspicious of her resemblance to Olga. What transpires in the following scenes is said to make “Fashion Bow" one of the most exciting romances of the season. (Mac Murray says that her problem in selecting different gowns is different- from that of most women, became whereas most women must consider bow the color scheme becomes them. Miss Murray must consider first the photographic value of the colors. Almost a hundred gowns that she wears in ‘Fashion Bow” were especially designed and made for her Vina I roles in this production.