AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 December 1924, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

McLEAN’S PICTURES. * A DICKENS’ STORY TO-NIGHT. AleLenn’s present at the Brincess Theatre this evening "The Cricket on the Hearth,” with Josef Swickard and Eritzi Ridgeway. AYitli these two artists ill this liotewolhy picturisation of Charles Dickens’ immortal story are Baul Gersoii, Virginia Brown Enire. I.orimor Johnson nml others equally well-known and liked hv the motion picture public. Perhaps the member of the enst who made the greatest hit with the audience wus the actor who took the role of John Beerybingle Jr. lie kicked and squirmed and wriggled in a most engaging manner, and goodness only knows how he evaded the censor, for lie appeared before the camera totally umlriipeil. No, “The Cricket on the Hearth” is not a. sex picture. It is just a very appealing love story filled with thrills mill drama and sighs and smiles, and. best of all—Romance. The supports include a Comedy and Pa the News.

MASTER PICTURES. OPERA HOUSE TO-NIGHT. DOROTHY DALTON. The opening production of the Master Pictures at the Westland Opera House will he the Paramount special "Fog-Bound.” Dorothy Dalton, Paramount picture star, has ridden horses down monnain sides, swam rivers and been shipwrecked at sea. but never lias she experienced such thrills as she did when wading in the swamps of,Florida for scenes in her present picture “Fog Bound,” an Irvin Willat production, who also produced “On the High Seas,” that recent great success. “For ten days we wandered around in the swamps near west Palm Beach and all the time I was seared to (leatli lest- I be bitten hv a cotton-mouthed moccasin.” said Aliss Dalton. “Talk about thrills. X had plenty of them. Scorpions and hugs of all kinds were around us and when just before we went to take the scenes T was told that two men bad (lied only a- few days before from poisonous snake bites, notably the cotton-mouth moccasins, f was almost afraid to take a step for fear of stepping on one of the venomous reptiles. Tf one ever asks me what mv most thrilling experience in making motion pictures was I shall tell them of my ten days ia the Florida swamps.” Most of the “Fog Bound” scenes of which Aliss Dalton speaks were taken along. Lncahntehce River, twenty-two miles from west Palm Beach. The supports include a comedy and Burton Holmes travelogue. Popular prices.