ARCADIA PICTURES.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIII, 3 February 1923, Page 6

ARCADIA PICTURES.

—- to-night. “The Voice in the Dark. ... J Circumstantial evidence has been many times discounted, and a specially vivid example of its unreliability is seen in “The Voice_in the Dark,” the mystery play showing Arcadia on Saturday and Matinee. The deaf old woman who saw the murder catually committed is perfect ly sure of the identity of the offender and yet proves to be totally wrong. The play is an example of what can be done with a stage success in the way of conversion into an equally good screen drama. The action is tense and closely woven throughout and so the story is quite enthralling. The denouement is a complete surprise, as the shrewdest guess at the name of the murderer is likely to be wrong. Also 11th episode “Blue Fox.” MONDAY & TUESDAY.. . .. MARY PICKFORD. “Little Lord Fauntleroy” retains all the Beautfiul Things in the Story. The millions of readers of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s world-loved novel, “Little Lord Fauntleroy,” will be delighted to know that Mary Pickford in reproducing the story for the screen has presrevedd all its quaintness and charm, and has been especially faithful to the costumes and manners of the period depicted so vividly by the author. As a vehicle for the lovely Mary this story is ideal, running as it does the entire gamut of emotional drama, pathos and riotous comedy. It gives her the greatest opportunity she ever has had for the display of that brilliant genius which has so endeared her to the hearts of Mr World and his Wife. In this play, scheduled to open next Monday at the Arcadia Theatre she has a chance to let her public see her as a mature woman and also as a boy of seven. In th world of dramatic art what could be more difficult? Not only in the same play but in the same scenes, will this greatest of all screen artists be seen in these two difficult roles. Through the medium of double exposure, that most baffling of photographic methods, Miss Pickford is able to appear as two different characters in the same scene, thus producing the most perfect illusion possible. The Victorian dresses with their puff-sleeves, bustles and Iqpg trains; the thatched houses and the magnifieient castle shown in this film tend to make it an aehievemnet in pictureland. And who can ever forget the rheumatic old apple-woman, the portly grocer, and the lovable bootblack who were such great croni/s of Cedric Errol? The human interest and heart appeal in this picture is said to top anything ever yet translated into celluloid. Miss Pickford will be seen in a greatre variety and a more novel set of costumes in “Little Lord Fauntleroy” than in any play in which she has ever before appeared. This display of women’s fashion typical of the Eighties will undoubtedly prove very interesting to style devotees, especially when contrasted with the scanty attire of to-day. But most appealing of all will be Mary Pickford the little boy and Mary Pickford the grpwn-up woman. The presentation of this nature will be more elaborate than anything yet shown at the Arcadia.