AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 February 1921, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

POLLARD’S PICTURES.

“BRASS BUTTONS,” WEDNESDAY

On Wednesday evening Mr Pollard presents AVilliam Russell and Eileen Percy in “Brass Buttons,” It appeals to folks of all ages and both sexes every girl loves a uniform, and all the world loves a lover and his lass—and when the lover is “Big Bill Russell” and the lass is lovely, dainty Eileen Percy you can expect something good.

She thought him a policeman—lie thought her a lady’s maid. She didn’t know tlic real ‘cop’ was penned up in a motor car, while Bill wore his uniform and hired himself out as Chief of Police -all to win the loveliest girl in the world. Tt’s full of breath-taking, rib-tickling heart-warming incidents, irresistible in its appeal to every member of the family. Tt will leave you grinning at the end it’s the old, old story, but with brand new trimmin’s, and there’s snap and go to every foot. A fast moving talc of snappy action and happy lovers. Ladies will gasp at the way Russell woos and wins the society girl lie thought a ladies’ maid. Men will thoroughly enjoy the scenes in which Russell, as a New York cop, bluffs the gunmen of Sawtooth, Arizona who had boasted that no sheriff could tame them.

THE ROSS SMITH FLIGHT

ENGLAND TO AUSTRALIA

On Thursday evening next. Air George. Dean will present and personally lecture on the Ross Smith aeroplane flight from England to Australia, a distance of 11,000 miles in 28 days. In “nicy the audience accompanies• the •aviators from the beginnihg of the Bight on November 12th., 1919 front Hounslow to Port Darwin, Australia. You’ll see half the glolx- spinning beneath your feet—cities, rivers and mountain peaks—all strange to you, yet brought so close you might reach out from your scat and touch them. You'll clench your teeth and hang tight to vour seat as the giant ’plane swoops, 'lives, and swirls through the vast open snares of the air route from the Old World to the New. A’ou'll hear the story related to you by a snhv'did lecturer. Yoii’ll hear him give a graphic description of the wonderful trip across the skies of the four continents. Prices of admission arc 2/1 and 1/-. Beats may be reserved at Aldntosli’s.