AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 June 1924, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

KEY FRANK GORAIAX AXD ZANK GREY STORY TO-NIGHT.

To-i,i K lit :ill mads will | L . ;u | to Ur> Rrinet'ss Theatre where one of the Imcst programines ever shown hi-re will I’o piresotiLod. Iho management have pleasure in announcing tlio fir,t up. poaranco in Hokitika of tho Rev IX,,k (.'oriii.iii. hotter known throughout Austi'alia and Xow Zealand as the Singing Parson. lie will appear in song and • st "i’.v in connection with ti fill'' picture programme headed hy Zane (Boy's |ioptilar racing story. "Wildfire.” >t;tr--1 *nii ( hi ire Adams in t!„. leading fonmle role and assi ted l,y the world lamed jockey Tod Sloanc. It j, : „ne of J 1 * 0 most colorful and swift-moving ~r Zone G rev pictures. A hall-willed man. .loci Creech, thinks Lucy Rostill has injured him and kidnaps her. To feed his revenge, he ties her to the haid; ol a horse and sends the horse sLraighl lor a jireeiniee. He him-olt is caught hv a dangling ro|>e and dragged to his death and the pi id is rescued by Coal Gantvoort in the role of fa'n Slone, a rancher. The horse race at the rodeo when Claire Adams rides \t ildfire. is almost as good and ns flood and thrillin'' as the real thing. Ihe prices to-night tire circle 2s l?.l. stall.-, Is Sd, and children under Id (Id.

WcLEAN’S PiSTURES.

RUDOLPH VALENTI.No, FRIDAV

On Friday evening Aid.can's present ‘‘l ucharted Seas.” Alice hake, known wherever pictures are oninvod. has the loadin'' role, and give-; a dramatic interpretation unexcelled for bounty and force, ti. i orditep to repot is from critic; V. ho have seen this picture elsewhere. It is cut hralliop. heenu-e ol it- nntistud plot, and the method of workinp nut lhe situations i-. eonsiimmate. lirielly. the s;tfsfy dettls with l.ueretia Last mini, v.lioso httshand is a moral derelict, addieled to opium and 100.-e vfoinen. hueroiio.’s < it|> of dispitst hrims over at la-t. Imt Tom's lather entreats her to pive him one la-t ehanee. 'I he lesi is the fimlinp el a deserted steamship, loaded with ten millions of Klondike pold. Tom is < iron a seaworthy craft. and ;t rottinp voss'el, manned with desperados, i-> loisted on Frank ITiderwood. who line, l.ueretia and is lovcil hy her. The cowardice of the one. and the eourape ol the other, as they po thrnttpli Behring Straits leads |o the licart-rluteli-inp climax. The supportin'' cast includes Carl Cerard, Rudolph Valentino. Fred Turner. Charles Abides and llliea Haines. The picture was adapted from .lohn Fleming Wilson's storv. which ap-poiired in Mmi'd's magazine. Wo ley Rttpples directed. John 11. Seitz photographed; .lohn Holden did 'the art work, and (Jeorgo F.lwnod Tanks wrote the scenario. . A twn-reel Comedy, Oazotto. Rathe Colour Review, and the thrillinp serial “The Timber Omni" will support the wonderful star picture. Usual prices will provttil and Mel. can’s Orchestra will render appropriate .selections. Sal unlay.— A hip star picture v.ill he screcnod topether with the serial, etc.