AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 December 1923, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

SREGAL PICTURE DISPLAYS WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY Oil Wednesday William Fox. pro sonts, Carmel Myers and John Gilbert in “The Love Gambler’’ at, the Princess Theatre. It is the story,,of a breezy youth coining Affront nowhere and bound oil the wind for the same place, to quote from one of the titles. Ho rides into a western town one day, and gets into a scrap in ten minutes. He knocks down a man, but there is a girl who is not vanquished so easily. Before she leaves the battle, she leaves the imprint of her hand on Manners’ (Gilbert’s) check. That interests Gilbert tremendously, and be asks questions, discovering that the girl’s name is Jean .McClelland and that her father. Col. .McClelland. owns a bad horse that has never been tamed. Whereupon the venturous youth calmly wagers that within a few days he will have ridden the horse and kissed the girl. A\ hat happens when he tries both, makes some of the most charming incidents ever seen on the screen. Director Joseph Franz is to he commended highly for the light comedy touch lie lias kept running through the earlier sequences of the 111 m. A Fox News and 2-reel cninodv completes the Bill. On Ihursdav next a special attraction entitled “Love's Redemption” another Ist. National masterpiece with the greatest of all dramatic stars, Norma Talmadgo with a wonder-east including Harrison Ford and Montagu Love. OPERA HOUSE TO-NIGHT. As the heroine of the;, story of “Dark Secrets,” her latest Paramount picture, to he shown at the Opera House this (Tuesday) evening Miss Dalton falls from a big Bedouin horse, “Untamable.” that she is riding at a horse show. Miss Dalton as Ruth Rutherford. is thrown and seriously injured. The ensuing scenes showing Ruth’s cure by an Egyptian surgeon, Afohaiuod Ali, which provoke, a thrilling tragedy, make up an interesting evening’s entertainment. Ihe supporting pictures include a 2-reel comedy and the fourth section of the Beauty Competition. BEAUTY CONTEST. The last section of the liiograph Beauty Competition will also he screened, being shown this (Tuesday l instead of Wednesday, in order to enable a start in be made with the semifinal section on Wednesday. I' rcsb tickets will be issued for the scini-iinal which will consist, of the twelve leading favourites.