AMUSEMENTS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIV, Issue 14820, 20 October 1920, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

HAYWAIU)-! TMiKKS I'K THIKS

"Social Atuhition" Ileal- viil.'i the widely divergent influent-• of t'.ro women on a man's life: i>ne a. society butteriiv. his r.ite. whose only tt-e tor her liushatut i.- that, of universal provider, and who 10-es no time in disranung hiru when he meet-, through her extravagance. financial ruin: the other a sirup!- gir! of Alaska, who re-Mies the human derelict and gives him a fresh impulse t.i live and make good. Howard Hickman and Rhe.l .Mitchell share ,the honor.- in the roles of Manton and Ro-e. the dance hall girl. The picture has mt;< h entertainment value, is .veil produced, and ha.- some beautiful setting of life in the gay metropolis and m the frozen n Kite spaces of Alaska. One ,-iene alone is a masterpiece of direi tion that :n the big dance hall, i hen Manton i.s beatoit up by the i r.iinl for insulting Hose, "n Monday there will he screened th- Australian :!ighi !>\ Sir itos- Smith and his broih• r. th,- pictriro are divided i«"*to Iu e parts, the first section showing the I'ight Irorti Darwin to Adelaide. These

'.••re taken by Frank Hurley, the fatnoii- Antarctic photographer. Ts:ereare pii 'ture.- taken from the machine of ('coded areas of ot Australian d.-.erf- and town and forests, and river- ami road- running like' slender iM'ioii- underneath. e see Bonrke <:n and arid, with the river hestcje it dried up in the heat. Sydney like a i.'va-i in her setting of blue harf>or. \f»-Ilioiirne. Ad -l :tcie —-in all a wonderful re: or.d of the Hight acro-s Aiistmia. During th.- flight from London to Darwin Sir Keith speaks of meeting a rainstorm in Palestine, "to avoid which • turned e.i-t and Hew over .Jerusalem" : of a night near Bagdad spent ' hanging on to the wings of the \ inly "c pri-v.mt her being blown away" : ot a "good tfying day" over Calcutta: of Hying through heavy storm clouds 12.000 feet above Burma's jungles, where forced landing would have meant that probably the Vimv and her crew would never have been hear'! of again.