AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 September 1927, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVfcRYBObVS’ PICTUftES

“THE BLIND GODDESS” TO-NIGHT

What is declared to be the most dram ntic and authentic court-room seen ever filmed is one of the climati features of “The Blind Goddess,” the new Victor Fleming-Paramount drama coming to the Princess Theatre to night. Jack Holt, Ernest Torrence, Esther Ralston and Louise Dresser form the strong quartet of featured players. in the picture, which was adapted from the popular novel by Arthur Train, Louise Dresser, is nr rested for the murder of Torrence,

powerful New York political boss Torrence’s daughter, ALiss Ralston is engaged to Jack Holt, a brilliant young lawyer attached to the District Attorney’s staff. Called on to prose cute Miss Dresser against whom the police have built up a perfect case, based solely on eircumstancial evidence Holt refuses to do so. To the amaze ment of tbo District Attorney and the chagrin of Miss Ralston, lie affirms his belief in the woman’s innocence, and at the trial appears as lawyer for the defence. Afore than four hundred persons take part in the tremendous trial scenes. Twelve citizens, who never before appeared on the screen, play the roles of the jury men. They are not actors, but merely citizens selected from various walks of life to serve as the jury in order to add realistic emphasis to the scene. A prominent Los Angeles judge as well as two oi California’s famous criminal lawyers were called in to act as technical advisers during the rehearsal and filming of the sequence, thus insuring absolute accuracy of setting and method of court proceedings. Aside from the technical correctness of the scene, here arc several touches of realism usually lacking in motion picture court-room episodes. For instance, the reporters are real newspaper men recruited from Los Angeles papers; the newspaper cartoonist is a real artist and was obtained from a Vocal paper; a diagram showing the house in which the murder was committed is shown on an easel in the court-room. A topical and comedy complete tlio display to-night.