AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 December 1924, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYGODYS PICTURES. DOUBLE ST A it—TO-MC; IT I*! flit'll Charles Chaplin ambles across llio screen in tiie garb of a minister, von will settle back in your seat anil Krin happily in the darkness. “The Pilgrim” is a liio Master Picture, higtier even in a comedy sense than “The Kid,” which was in six reels, as compared with “The Pilgrim's” lour, lint in thou? four reels, subtle humour is e unbilled with pantomimic action in a way that Charlie has not heretofore duplicated. The story—imagine Charlie Chaplin as an escaped convict helping himself to a minister’s clothes and as a result finding himself the unwilling occupant of a pulpit. [,et your imagination run a hit and it will tell you that here’s Charlie at his funniest. And your imagination will not lie! The second big feature is entitles “Pioneer Trails,” a seipiel to ‘‘The Covered Wagon.” Indians! The cry of horror passed from waggon to waggon down the lone trail of prairie schooners. Lullaby sones hushed oil mothers’ tonpiles. The terror of the lone traverse was upon them. “Form up! Form up! Right an’ I/‘ft! Cattle in the centre.” Tlie scout, riding shoulder hard against the lead horses of the landships, swim" them about in a circle, which narrowed as hull whackers and mule skinners obeyed orders until waggon touched waggon, a defense wall against the redskins. Night and terror, dawn and battle, screech in;.' Indians, wailing children, (laming arrows and fire! Sunset. Triiimpliaiit warriors disappeared in the mountain passes. Out of the smoking debris walked a hov of four—alone! These are a few of the thrilling gripping moments in “Pioneer Trails," a. mighty Master Picture, featuring Cullen Landis and Alice Calhoun. Special prices to-night: Circle 2s. stalls Is (id. Children under 12, (id.