AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 July 1924, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

OUT OF THE DEPTHS AND "IiI'FFA 1.0 HIM.’ WEDNESDAY.

On Wedne-day n special William Fox production •entitled "Out of the Depths” with a five star cast. Hurry I. -Morey, (.‘cargo Fawcett, Kdmimd ilreese, Miriam I'atista, Marguerite ( layteu. A melodrama that. will make your hh.oil Imil, a romance that will make life worth living, and a mixture of rural comedy thit will make you chuckle with delight, till rolled into one. Fading with the greatest runaway train thrill that ever graced the screen. The six-year-old child heroine that drews sohs and smiles as tlm lit tie daughter in "Smilin’ Through.” Nonna Tnlmadge’s fittest picture, is agailt to he -eon in a similar ride In "Out ol thi> Dept Its." I’ally Batista has heen called ".lackie Coogau’s Screen Sister,” lor she is a- popular among girlie fans tis Jackie is among the kiddies. This child prodigy hits appeared in more plays and pictures than any other juvenile Jar. She acted with -Maude Adams in "A Kiss for Cinderella,” played in "Flnrudoril, 1 ’

••Dolls House” and -Thu He'd Dawn," on the dramatic stage. Her screen career began with “ll umoresque.” and included the leading roles in "Boomerang Hill,” ".Jlist Around the Corner," “Eye lor Kyc,” •Smilin’ Through,” "At the Stage Door.” it ltd "lluinoies(|iie.” Ilow she managed to squeeze so much in her seven years ol life i' a mystery. Owing to their being no pictures on I’ll ill's «l;ty, the second episodes ol the great serial "Uulfalo Hill” will he screened with Wednesday’ programme.

MfLEAN’3 PICTURES.

‘•COD’S COOD MAN” TO-XIORT

.Mitl.ean’s Pictures ) resent this evening a Stoll till British piclurisation of Malic Corelli's novel ‘'Coil's Com! Ma.ii" featuring Basil (Jill and Pegi'v Carlisle, foremost amingst F.nglish s-ieen artists. The beauty o' England, her old-wnrhl castles and thatched village;. the inisii r| asscil charm peculiar to that little island, stump "Cod’s Cnod Man” as a film lor till to see. Sentimental religion is always acceptable to a. great majority of the public, ami Marie Corelli has specialised so as to make this particularly her own. ‘•Col’s (lend Man”, is essentially a British pinilttction, the type ef film At deans cannot touch. It is a line example of artistic sinipli; itv. mcst. of its scenes heitig laid in the country, with an occasional glimpse of the huge Metropolis. Tile story shows how a girl fresh from the city goes into the countrv to escape from it all. ami in llie .simplicity of homely old village lite she finds a man whom site learns to love. The portrayal is such that it sets lititisfi film rroilttetion on a imw plane. Basil CiM, whose .splendid acting is a feature of this film, interprets the chi' racier of "Cod's Ci ol Man", and Miss I ’egiiy Carlisle plays the leading feminine role. A Muck Seunclt < nmedy "Daredevil Queue" slitrring Charlie Chaplin and Alabel Xormand completes a capital

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nsis jr.nn.Ki-: sinhkii.s. A KA Mol'S IXTKUNATIO.WI. COMI’A NY. It is otc.r thirty years cim-e the I'i>k Juliilee '.Snipers 'lii'st. in*- 1 t'i New 'Koaland on oik- of their World tours and it certainly s|cnks well ior their | ( :.i-!:ifity iline they ate like a certain I -and o! v. hi-Uy st ill ,uoii'.:4 sirtmp. Such a happy condition of nlfaiis would n it he passible were the rnmpnny to he allowed to deteriorate in <|utility hot as the .Melbourne "Ape” said (f a recent porformntiie: The new Fisks awakened old meniorie- and made new friends, it was -{(tod to sec the old favourite Miss liolle Oihhon.s still holding her own. and one notes with pleasure that Mi-s Marjorie Al'ytie. I lari \ Ivnii and H untie Spell er arc still here to charm ns with tm-ir voi:es. nothing; <>l the delivery of treatment and keen sense ol harmony lioth .natural and cultivated which originally charmed people with the first hand of h’isks has hecn lest. Indeed the opposite is true for the Cumpanv has moved with the times and while retaining a niimle, of the old plantation melodies they have in .some instances adopted new and upicr*datc methods. In plaintive plantation son}ss the Company is unsurpassed and natural uepro humour v.it.h which the uumhets tire studded makes a nipht s oliteriainment that mme ,lmt the J-'isks can pile. The Itrishane “Cnitrier" says there is a plaintive note in the nepro \eiee which I- said to he a heritage trim the years of oppression which the eolnred race sidlerod. Whether this is true or not the tact remains that no one hut the risks can r.inp the old jubilee melodies nearly so well as they do.