AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 June 1923, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

$ --eg—I ‘ (>X K WKKK OF l.o\ 1.. 1 $ More seii-aiion i- crowded inti jjj "One Week oi l.ive,” the big Felznic] 2 s: ven-reeler screened at the Princes: 1 I Iheatre last evening, than most peoplt - | would l ope to meet with in a lifetime jj | I' tom beginning to end it is ;i picture | o! action. An nnnstml plot and an 1 immense variety of scenes hold the j -portalor all the tune. The picture i opens with ti gorgeous: garden scene j where Beth Wynn (Klaine llainmer- | stein i. a young lady who loves to snap 1 her finger., tit convention, celebrates | her birthday in company with some j | kindred spirit-. The terms upon I which the guests at this party are invited are that they attend in their j nio-t lormal bathing suits and leave j their brains at home. They fulfil both conditions admirably, and carry on I I heir lolly in unique surroundings. Ihe Mime quickh change., and the -lory takes up its thread. Beth proposed to by her most, persistent admirer, undertakes to "gamble with him. and agree, that the one who j cnees by plane lo San Diego and hack j -nail have the deciding answer. This thrilling and fateful race in which both girl and man display extreme daring, ends in Beth's crashing down np m a hand of .Mexicans. Mor subsequent. adventures and her long -i niggle with the embittered renegade who imprisons her in hi- mountain home, and whom -he hates, hut learn-: *o love, form the basis of the remain dcr of the story. It is chnekfui of cm Moment, a mo-t realistic scene being pre-ented by the crashing of a heavily laden passenger express hurled D'om lhe im,in hof a tunnel into a swollen river. The story has a most uncommon climax-. A special feature i- | Ihe -Mu by "Skipper'’ Francis, who sings hi- own ' imposition "One Week ha >1 on the star picture of (he evening. I he picture will he shown again this evening.