AMUSEMENTS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19197, 13 June 1924, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS.

EMPIRE THEATRE. One of the season’s most dramatic screen offerings will come to the Empire Theatre to-day. It is “White Tiger,” a UniversalJewel photoplay, starring Priscilla Dean. VVhite Tiger” is the symbolic title of the heroine of the story, who is the one feminine member of the trio of international “crooks” who leave the small fry” field of London’s cheaper sections for the milliondollar field of American society. 'iney expect m America to wrest fortunes from tne necks of society matrons and steal the heirlooms hidden in family safes. The > other two members of the trio are impersonated by Wallace Beery and Raymond Griffith. The straight leading role opposite Miss Dean is entrusted to Matt Moore, who in this reverses his character in “The Storm, ’ one of the past season’s biggest successes, in which he played a role of “villainy” with consummate artistry. White’ Tiger” was written and directed by the man who wrote and directed “Outside the Law,” a previous Dean success of unusual dramatic force.. He is Tod Browning, one who ranks among the really ’ big league” directors., Police authorities have said that “White Tiger” presents “crook character accurately and truthfully for the first time in the history of fiction or screen.