AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 July 1924, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

•V -MAURICE TOURNEUR SPECIAL

•M OX DAY

Ihi li.ass Rottle, .Maurice Tour

". ~,lr ’ s Dintastic comedy-drama Iron lae novel ol the same name hy F. An •stey. F.nplish author, will he tlie Xatmu.d screen novelty featured at Hie l’nncess Theatre on .Monday. Interpreted hy an nil-star east, includU'P Harry .Myers. Ernest Toneme, (ha riot te Merriam and liaroara i.a '‘"rt’i the .'lory revolves around the adventures of a struggling votiii" arch Heel who releases a genie Iron, a 'u-iiss hot tie iu which he lias been coiiimed lor many thousand years. The Feme in latitude for ’ his release showers the architect with favours "hith owing to the circumstances and Ihe chanpe of eii'toiii' during the period ol the genie's imprisonment, prove embarrassing. The story is an extraordinary interminplinp of modern l-endon ami Kin;; Solomon’s court of six thousand years ago; the penio, "ilh all his powers of materinli.-atiom aeeoniplishes ti e seeming impos -ihl-’ "ith a wave of, hi- hand, hut iinfoittmately is iinfa.niliar with the needs of modern times. 'I he story is one that can host he told hy the marvels of photography. It is described as a delightfully lefreshinp tale with many a sndle and all ol the splendour of I lie days of old. lee second episodes of the thrilling •eiid. "Perils ol the Yukon," will also he snown. William Desmond plays the mle ol Jack .Merrill, the American, and I.aura I.a I’lanie appears in the sweetheart role. Roth are prime favoiitcs with the t lientregoers of this city and their adventures will he followed with interest in this "ilndl-a----)"«>t” drama. Ii was during the mak,n P of this picture that Desmond narrnwly escaped death hy being hurled from a t-liff into an ice-choked river. Desinoud sustained a broken ankle, oislucated shoulder and his hotly was bruised from head to foot. Aliss I.a Rlaiite, wlio was standing nearby, barely escaped the same late. Ihith artists also had several oilier close calls and the various chapters show all these real thrills in every detail. A pood supporting programme will also he shown. Orchestral selections and usual prices.

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HURT I.YTELI. TO-NIGHT. licit Lytcll. iu “Tin; Face Between' a liiiyanl Ycillcr production for .Metro will It*.* seen to-night at tho Princes Thentit. This iiifiuiT is a screen \vr sion of n story hy .1 list us .Milos For mail. nimio from n sooimrio hv l.onon Coffee, li deals with the sacrifice o Tommy Carteret, n New York soeiet; mini. who. to save the reputation o his roue father, heroines an exile ii tlie Tilue Ridge .Mountains, turning hi hark on everything: that had made ]ift worth while, even giving up the gir whom he had hoped soon to marry During his hanisliment. a mouiitaii pill falls iu love with him. and. despairing of ever being aide to reiuiu ii eivilisation. lie derides to marry her, hut 'll" is shot hy her jealous lover and Carteret himself ii wounded. Ii would he unfair to those who are to see this picture to reveal here the various complications which then result, and their liual solution, hut it can he said that this unusual and hiplily cxritinp story provides all the ingredients of the perfect picurc. licit l.yttel enacts the roles of hath father and sen and makes the latter a character oi infinite appeal. A cii'l of unusual exielleli e .supports Mr l.yttel in ‘•The Faro lietivci'ii." Andree Tourneur, a beautiful seventeen-year-old hlonde, playinp her lii't important role, has the part of Carteret’s fiancee, and Sylvia dreamer is the mountain pirl. Others are Hardee Kirkland, (iirard Alexander. Frank Itrownlee. liurwell Hamrick. .loci Day and Dewilt Jennings. Satuiday: “Should a Woman Tell." See Alice Lake in a icii'o human and infinitely appealing .story of a woman confronted with life’s greatest dilein-

FISK JFBII.I.K SIXTIERS

The Ei-k Jubilee Sinpcis are known ii every town tliroiiphuiii the Dniuiiion. and their reappearance on Thuislav eveuinp of next week should prove i hip attraction. Fir-t hrmiplit here

y the late .Mr Jean .MeAdoo they have low been reorpanised hy Huntley Speller. who has been associated with them or many years as musical conductor, o all tile years they have never been i slronper eemhiiaition than at preel.t. and the well-reiuemhered Jubilee lioru-e-i mid pinnt.-iiion melodies should vvivo many p-leasanl memories. Tie* irepr;.mme lo tv submitted will lv oi

, v:Lci(*il nature, ::111 1 should appeal tronjjdy t.i music-lovers, Ii is suited !:;it the i M ti*r| ji'i‘ t;> l itm of those hauiil--110 American lie-in melodies liv the loinnf tin* eimpany i- somethin,'' > In.' reinendered. Tlie company is a Iron;' one consisting of ten vocalists. II ol whom ale in the front lank of iiisieians. Their .Jubilee choruses are lid to he particularly ofiVetivir and lonld prove a special attraction.