ARCADIA PICTURES.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIII, 24 July 1923, Page 2

ARCADIA PICTURES.

TO-NIGHT! TO-NIGHT! “HOW WOMEN LOVE.” How a women’s beauty can be. almost fatal to her happiness and future is shown dramatically in “How Women Love,” Betty Blythe’s latest starring vehicle at theAicadia on Monday and Tuesday. Helen of Greece, Cleopatra, and Marie Antoinette were all beautiful women who paid terribly for the lure (which their beauty was to men. In “How Women Love,” Miss Blythe has the role of a young prima donna gifted with a “dangerous capacity for loving,” who finds only just Before it is to late that true love is better than the admiration of (selfish, sophisticated men, who have lost all freshness and purity from their viewpoint. Miss Blythe is given the opportunity to wear gorgeous gowns and to prove again that she is in fully what her admirers have called her—.“ The best looking and the best dressed star on the screen.” As “Rosa Roma” the young prima donna, she proves also that she has a better gift than her looks and her ability to wear gowns She can act.

WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY u —Boy Scout Benefit Wednesday.—•• • “HER MAD BARGAIN.” Anity Stewart, more charming than ever, will be seen at the Arcadia Theatre on Wednesday and Thursday. The story of “Her Mad Bargain” is based on the experience of a girl who, after attempting suicide, signs a pledge that she will live for at least one year. Love enters Iter heart, and by the time the end of the probationary perior is reached she stands on the threshold of martial happiness, convinced that live is well worth the struggling after all. Unique in theme, the picture has many little ironical twists that lay sympathy for the girl who Ys thrust bare the shame of society and arouse out into the world to battle alone against vicious elements. The film deals in realistic manner with the life of a pampered society idol who suddenly finds herself cut off from all the wealth and luxuries she has been accustomed to. Faced by this situation, utterly unable to make her own way in life, she enters into a njad bargain that will insure her the ixtravagant things of life she has '-'been used to having. The story combines tense realism with pathos, humour and swift action. Anita Stewart is bewibchingly charm ing in the leading role of Alice Lam bert. One unusual scene is shown in an automobile accident, where the star runs over a small boy. Only a blood transfusion can save the lad s life, and Alice Lambert, humble and penitent as the result of her carelessness, offers herself. The part of the young boy is played by Earnest Butterworth, who will be remembered by thousands of film fol lowers for his juvenile roles in previous films. His intensely human characterisation of the young newsboy adds immensely to the picture in its contribution of humour and naive mischief.

There is a comedy of the roaring type, starring Larry Senion in his latest screamer, “The Agent.” The subtitles of the picture are cleverly written, and they help the fun a.ong very well. One of the most comical scenes is that in which the “special unconsciously has nine or ten cone secut-ive hairbreadth , escapes from being engulfed in a yawning chasm in the floor. A gramaphone record of the King's Speech, kindly lent by the C.F.C.A., will be given during the interval.