AMUSEMENTS,

Hokitika Guardian, 2 January 1925, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS,

?.-] cL£A N’ S PICT URE S. <2s TO-.’,; |(FIT “HATF.’’ In Alice Rake's new picture, ■■Hale." Here is provided screen fare that < -Mini fail to hold the interest ef the nioit critical of movie-goers, ii i. full nil thrilling situations, invoking , ii. saviors uf vivid interest, aims,; clashing objectives make a drama without a dull moment. ■■ !!,■;-'" wiii: h ivili be screened at tin- Princess Thealre on Friday night, i a Maxwell Kargor pi oduetion for .Metro, adapted hy June Mathis from a story by Wadsworth Cain]!. It is a storv m’ i hat si rata of society which is ins! beyond the fade -of an cx-gam--IHr ami a pretty little show girl whose a Gentians the lias accepted, lie i -• found d.-ed in his apa rumen l and <••. idetice is discovcre I which incriminate. a man whom the gambler lias boon iiir-trumeiital iii sending: to prison. “Babe"’ f.i'linnx. (lie character played hv Miss bake, knows that the suspect is innocent and. outraged hy merciless vindictiveness of the law, she lights Cl save the innocent man. She becomes involved m a romance which .provides a nice-mg flavor ol In-art inli i-'st. Alice bake gives, perhaps, i lie lim-sr. imm-rsunafiort -J her career. Ti . pK- uauev v.-ifti wliirli she expresses the hewiMermenl and sense ol frustration as she lights a ion-' again-! see in imrl -■ ovoi'V, helming odds, mark' .Miss Lake as an adless of increasing cnml imud powers. Conrad Nagel, ps |he prosecuting attorney, adds •another his list of conviiieing portraits. Others in the east are "Harry Xorlli-i-up. Charles Clary and John thee. A cuneedy, gazelle, and the popular serial " Lightning Frye'’" "ill also he shewn. MV Deans Renowned Orchestra

will render appropriate selections. On Saturday absolutely the finest pi,.hire entitled Cod's Country and the i.au- ’’ by < )liwr Cnnvood, will be screened. Wateb for furlber nnnoiin-eenn-nis in Saturday’s issue. MASTER PICTURES. <‘Tii k 00-cfttf:;” 'ro->: rc• i it. At the Opera If'inse t.’iis evening Master Vi, I ares present “‘The ('o (letter,'” a Cosmopolitan pieturization of a Peter (!. K'yno story. wmch .IV H. CriUitb directed. The “ shoo tin"” of these scenes tank place at Cartirs Aviation Kidd. Miiivloa. and oilier parts ~f f.oiHi Island and in tbe Infe'-nalHei-al Studios of Xew Tori'. This particular part of tbe pb-ture entails nothin*.: but night scenes, tbe most spectacular of which is one slewing a race between an aeroplane and a snowline express train. This scene is expected t» 1,0 revcinlion when shown as “shot’ from the Ilyin;.: acronlane. It brings j„ rlie screen some directional ingonnitv and also seine exceptionally splendid' r.hot., yrapby. in the making ol these aerial scenes lor “ Tbe Ho Ot{or p.lr.e ior C rifirth bad the co-oper-„iio„ „f (lie Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Corporation, which released an rr machine for eerlain “ snots ” that rverc taken in the International Studins William -T. MacMillan, assistant manager at Curtiss Field, design?!, t|,r> apparatus and supervised the setfine up of the aeroplane in the studio, listed by members of Ibe Curt ms engineering staff, who worked out various safclv factors and perfected olhor details. T. Hoy Barnes. Sccna Owen. iliinm Norri=, Tom Fowls and T.oms Wnlbeim arc featured in tlm ” I*" Cotter/’ The cast abo imbuF's k rco-o-ick Knutley. -Tnhn Carr. William ... Welle Jane Jennings and others. A comedy and gazette complete tin programme, wilh 101 l nicnec-ia conipaiinvients.