AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 February 1928, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS PICTURES. “ HOSE OF THE WORLD” -TO-NIGHT. Patsy Ruth Miller, wliose dark, wholesome, slender beauty, and vividly sincere acting have marked her for stardom since her triumph as the gypsy heroine, Estnerelda, in “The II until hack of Notre Dame,” is said to have fulfilled all the promise of her career as Rose Kirby in “Rose of the World,” the Master Picture, which comes to the Princess Theatre tonight. Readers of the Kathleen Norris novel upon which the picture is founded will recall that the Rose of tho story used her thorns to prick the man who jilted her, and who flung her beauty away upon a man who did not appreciate her. The picture was directed by Harry Rcaumont. If your husband was cruel and heartless, and you learned he had married you in hopes of your becoming an heiress ; if the man on whom you had vowed vengeaancc was understanding and kind, hut the husband of another, what would you do? See what Rose Kirby does in “Rose of the World.” Revenge! She had prayed for it, lived for it, thirsted for it! And then, when it was in her power to wreck the man who had jilted her for a richer woman, who had scorned her love for another’s, what was it that stayed the hand? Don’t miss this dramatic moment in “ Rose of the World,” the Master picture at the Princess Theatre to-night. 'l'he latest in topicals, scenic and comedy.

LILLIAN GISH IN “THE SCARLET LETTER ’’—MONDAY. The stern and olttimes cruel intolerance of the early Pilgrim Fathers, their hardships and their fanatical opposition to all that savoured of pleasure form the background for one ol the most startling and dramatic screen productions of recent times, Aletro-Goldwyu-.Mayer’s epic, “The Scarlet Letter,” which is at the Princess Theatre for a special screening, on .Monday. r lo Lillian Gish, star ol “The White Sister,” and undoubtedly the greatest artist on the screen today, go the chief honours for the success of the screen version of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic story. Never before has this superb actress been seen to such advantage—never beloro lias she revealed such depth ol feeling, such magnificent sympathy for the character she impersonates, such restraint or such magnificent emotionalism when called upon to he emotional. She has been termed “ tbc Bernhardt of the screen ” and she lullv deserves the title. Superbly directed and magnificently acted is this story of a girl who loved unquestionably and with every fibre of her being. Starkly gripping is the manner in which the grim habits and customs of tho early Puritans have been reconstructed for the screen. Splendid indeed is the work of Lars Hanson, a Swedish film discovery, in the difficult role ol the Reverend Diinmcsdnle, the clergyman ' lover of the heroine. More than adequate are Karl Dane and Henry "Walthall in their respective roles, hut it is to Lillian dish that the memory instinctively returns. Miss Gish has entered into her role with the devout spirit akin to that of the actors in the Passion Play, as for six years it had been her fine great desire . . . i“ pbit tie- role of" Hester Prynne. And so |o this tragic, yet uplifting cliaractvrizntion, she brings a breadth of uniterstanding that enables her to absolutely live the life of a girl who. walled in by intolerance, hears a brand ol shame in order to save the man she loved. “ The Scarlet Letter ” has won unstinted praise in many other parts of the world, but this is only as it should he. It lifts the screen to a new plane, gives the silent: art a new stature and sets an example tor every other play and picture to follow. Tt was directed by Victor Senstrom, a man who does not advance by steps but by gigantic

strides . . ~ undoubtedly the reason why “The Scarlet Fetter” is so far ahead of its predecessors in the realms of the silent drama. Special prices Monday: Circle 2s, stalls Is (id. children under 12 as usual.

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