AMUSEMENTS.
EVERYBODYS PICTURES. “ GET YOUR MAN ” TO-NIGHT. How to. free the man, one loves from a loveless betrothal of seventeen years standing is shown in “ Get Your Man,” i*a*omoun.t’s latest starring vehicle for Bow, which will be shown at the picture, Clara. ) is. a, yqung American Theatre this evening. In the girl Who has fallen in* love with a French youth, Charles Rogers, who was engaged to another girl when five years of age, under the French custom in which parents choose, the mates of their children. The - efforts of Miss Bow to cause the breaking of this 'engagement, supply many of the clever situations witbi which, the picture abounds. The plot, carries one into a wax-works mqseum, where the boy and girl fail to exitJat the closing hour, and are forced to spend the night together in a room surrounded, by mechanical figures which walk, wave then*, arms, roll their eyes, brandish swords, andj. even execute murders. The‘girl, who was universally accredited with being the outstanding possessor of following - her huge success in Elinor Glyn’s story of the same name, Is said to have as great a’ role in “ Get Your Man” as was given her in “ It,” “ Rough House Rosie,” or .“ Hula,” ,her three previous starring, vehicles. Miss Bow is surrounded by a capable cast, including, besidesßogers, who last appeared with hear, in “ Wings,” Josef Swickard, Josephine Dunn and Harvey Clarke. The picture was directed by Dorothy Arzneir,'; one of‘ the few women directors in thet motion picture industry. A topical, comedy and further chapters of the serial will also be shown. Selections by the orchestra.
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 October 1929, Page 3
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