AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 August 1924, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

“THK sage hki sii trail-’ wed.nek da V. Oil Wednesday next lit tile IVime.sS I heatre \\ ill in in lox presents mi n!l----'iii' cast including H ti.v Stewart. M;ijuru. Daw, Johnnie Walker ami Wallikc Reely in ‘'l'lit' Sage Brush Trail.” Love, flii-'li. diuijrff! Set amid tli<> rolling plains of tlm West. This pic-turc has everything- swilt action tn thrill, a denth-delying Imro and a surprising and nisjiaii'clill romance. Aim'll 1 1!:«it. Sii.ii after his appointment as Sheriff of Silvertiwii, l.arry Reid is confront,•:! with the dillienlt problem of nrre.dng the hrolher of the girl he lores Oil a charge of murder. ’I lie boy howerer. proves his innocence. and fate at lii't traps the red vilhiin. The latest Kox News ami a tire.reel remedy will also he show n. VAUDEVILLE AM) l’l( TIRES. On Thursday next a special feature .starring Ethel Clayton in "If 1 were duet'll." opens t!:e golden mites to romanee. and lifts curtain upon the most exipiisilt' lore .-.tory ever enacted amid the regal sph ndotiis of old world eourts and castles. Remit ifttl woodland scenes in a rugged count ry no bigger than a tawn-hip—tucked away in the mountains—hat still a Kingdom with its Queen and its Kitier - and its old world chivalry. Six reels of romance and adventure! Include I ia Thursday's grand display i- a i reel eomedv aml further chapters of “Bull'alo Mill." .Mis, .Maud Com tenay. t lie splendid vaudeville artiste direct from Kuller'.s Wellington. where, .she played all last week, will play at the l’riuec.ss Theatie on Thursday in conjunction with th pu t nres. •Miss Courtenay whose turn in conjunction with ".Mr C." made her a head liner throughout the Fuller eireiiit. will' a,'•'pear at Hokitika on Thursday heftire I'roccrding to Chri.-l-ehtitvh to lull'll her engagement ai Fuller’s. For a sinn'l increase of -isle lire in the usual | iettire prices Coasters will lie aide to .see this well-known artiste, who presents something unique ill vaudeville.

McLEAN’S PICTURES. “THE (MANNINGS"- TO-MCHT. .Mel.fan's I’ict tires have pleasure in announcing the reproduction of •• The Chan mugs" ;i wonderful interpretation ot Mrs Henry Wood's famous novel. A British production hy .Masters Films l«td with Dorothy Moody as Conslame ('banning, Diclt We'd, as Ilamish (hauning, I.iottelle Howard as Arthur C'himuiug, Clias. Vane Mr Huntley. In the quiet and sleepy Cathedral town of 1 Iclxlnnleigh lived two families as different from one another as could possibly he imagined. The Chniininj's lived together in quiet and lovinji accord, hut the Yorkes tire wild, careless and quarrelsome. Unexpectedly the Lhaimings arc faced with poverty, lull proud and independent they face the had news with a hravc .spirit. The children who are old enough go out to earn their living, and with the strictest economy the plucky family endeavour to stave oil' ruin and win through. Arthur ( banning and llolattd Yorke hotlt work as clerks at Calloway's the solicitors, where uv. in;' to the disappearance of a twenty pound note they both come under suspicion. Arthur (Tiaiiniug.s knowing that his hrolher ilamish has ohtained smile money in j a mysterious manner hclive , him to Lei the thief, ae.d itohlv saeriliees Ids honour and coed name to icvn hi- hrot-j Iter's supposed guilt : he i- eon•l'quelttly discharged in disarm e. For liiet very lir-t time the (T,tunings lid I div-j idl'd opinions: some of the family he-1 lieve Ilamish guilty. anti Mr ( halining | and llitmish helieve Arthur to he the culprit. The twenty pound note is returned anonymously to Calloway, and eventually Boland Yorke clears out. afterwards writing to Arthur tonlessitie that he is the thief; tints the whole drama of civs purpose.-. i- cleared un. and Ilamish explains his s,-c-I'ot source ol iueam • hy proudly showill;; a hook which lie has _wrilleii. I lie Yorkes. alter having openly sneered at the Chnmiings now yet their first taste of real humihation. hut the Chau

wit!: a i nip ul iLr^ivent’s?* readily agreed to IT ryel the unpleasant happenings, and so re-untops and wedding- become tbe order ol the day. The full orchestra will provide the aeeompaitimenls and McLeans have pleasure in announcing that lor this specially line picture only the usual prices will he charged.