AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 February 1924, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

•‘•SQUISS WINS TIIK (Aid I'T'l A SWEEP'-’- .MONDAY. I'l-Uv Balluui, iJ i (harming i i 111> Hugli-h 'ini', i- last iu lb,. Icadini" ".'■<4<ii T ,- Will, til,, Calcutta "w<-;-i>. al ilia I' ll< <.— 'i hcatre on .Mini,lily evening. .-111. is MX-11 l|s il lallliln.'l 11., Ui ■ r -ill U hose 'lull 1111I In 1 1< • rr , 1 life is s 11«I<|« • 111 v luightcm-d hy tin.' laei that In' i- ih(. wiiiii:'!' ill' in !h,. (’alfiitta Sweep. Comedy i- Imrugln into t!ie story v, lieu Squib. in her neu country liome 11 :'ovi,!ie- ih,. tor.. li.\ iier awkwardness, which ■’i".'lns tn ciine upon her in a. series nl "attacks.' She lulls over mats, slips on the |hi! islii'il Hour and flops into the hath. When s i;ihi Hopkins purchases a ticket ior the Calcutta Sheep I'rnm a loeal pa'diean. with Sipiihs' inuncv. he ', ready pun-ha.-mg a lor tune. I'or the horse lie draws is the favourite. When a pre- man lakes their photograph by ii.is1 1 1i.. !o kindly neighbour e,lines to Ihe rescue with a Inirket of water, iviiieiitly thinking there cannot he smoke without, a Hume. At her new country house. Sipiihs provoked the l.iti it liter of til" spectators h,v .her awkwardness, which seems to come up'll le'r in a senes of ‘Mltacks." Behind it all. however. is a note of tragedy, lor the W-usel. committing hiire'lary. Inis shot a man. and he and Ivy, Sipiihs’ si-tor, have lied to Paris. HI eour-e, Sipiihs eventuallly iimls her "i'tor. during a ('etitinenlal holiday, but the Wen ■ el, cornered, takes hiown liio- a tragedy that is forced home most. powerfully. The finale come, naturally, and with power—when Ivy falls sobbing, with her face in Sipaih-' lati, ami the latter cries. "We’re sisters, ain't we'-" hie; special .supportiug -eiie- v.ill also he pi'o-'. iiled. including the famous "l.vatlier Pushers" starring tlio | npuill Reginald Denny, and further adventures of the \ o,! (!e r Serial ‘'The llildio King"