AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 November 1923, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

SHIRLEY -MASON*, WEDNESDAY. On Vi ednesday Shirley .Mason will he seen in a special Fox production ‘•.Shirley of the Circus.” Pretty Shirley Mason “Queen of the Circus”— performing breath-taking bare-hack riding feats—is a sight that will bring hack the joy of youth to the most blase and sophisticated cynic. All the glamour and glitter of the “big tops”— beauties and beasts—clowns and contortionists—acrobats and aetorines—with a side-show of human and inhuman freaks—through which runs a heartgripping story of love, revenge and retribution—make this a sizzling romance. One of the high lights of the production shows Miss Mason in a hazardous sword dance, attired in the scant and diaphanous drapery of an Oriental dancer. During this dance a man-eating linn breaks loose in the circus ring, throwing the audience into a panic. Another special feature in Wednesday's line programme is a special two-reel comedy starring the popular Australian comedian Clyde Cooke, On Thursday next the great Eox •Special “Perjury” featuring William Farmim, will l:e shown. The really worth while part of “Perjury” is the noting of Mr Farmim. In America

there K not another man more capable or more talented by nature to act before ihe camera than he. The wonder is that be lias not long before now set himself aside, selected good stories and specialised in the so-called

"super-lilms,” the kind that are good enough—and have sufficient power and appeal—to stay on Broadway for months. Tie caresses his baby-girl, and you wonder if it isn’t really his own. Ife sinks that huge fist, into the midseetiou of an enemy and you grunt of pain. He act-. He is positive at all times, Aon never wonder what he is about to do. You behold what 1m already Inis done. He is no poser. Oh, lor a lew more like him! Or, perhaps we should say. more pictures with him. His work in “Perjure” is worthy of more than the usual amount of space devoted to an nr!or. because be really acts.