AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 January 1925, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYSODV3 PICTURES. “KEXYUCK V DAY'S” TO-XIOiJT " *'«'t desert men say is the most pari oot sandstorm ever recorded lev a motion picture camera will l,e seen in the William Fox production “Kciituclv.v Days,” featurin'' Dustin pallium, which opens to-night at the Princ. ss I lioatre. The tact that the sniul-

.■-innii "as a real, furious, whirlin'.', olimliiig ‘'Aanta Anna” taken at its rugi ng height on a Californian desert, lu.'iy explain this o]iiniou. Director Solomon, Air Farnimi and Alargaret Fieldi lie;, with a eomapny of players nod ( amora men, deliherately hraved (h ath to accomplish somethin,!' that no oliier.producer had ever done photograph an actual sand storm. The company went to .Mojave, California, and made camp on a little fringe of watered land that skirts the great Mojave desert. Realising the danger of being lost on the desert during n .sand-storm, they erected stone pi l, a tor throe miles into the deceit to the spot where they intended to take the scenes. Then they camped and waited near the wa-ter-holes. One week passed. Two weeks passed without a sign of wind. A merciless sun heat down upon the half-ha lied camp, making life all lint unlicarulde. Then, in the midst of a sultry afternoon, the long-expected sand storm came, first in short gusts, then in terrific volume. I 'poll the first signs of the “Santa Anna,” Director Solomon and the company, guided by half a dozen hardy and experienced deserl rats, made their way into the desert wastes in the location that had been selected. In the midst of a storm of unusual severity they shot the scenes for “Kentucky Days.'’ For three hours the company worked. Time and again they were forced to ston until eyes, nostrils and mouths could he cleared of sand which whirled about them with pitiless energy. Their work completed, thc.v started a long tedious exodus. Guided by ihc stone piles, the company made their way hack to camp, taking three hours to traverse a distance of not quite as many miles. But none complained. They had achieved something that no one else had dared to attempt. On Thursday a 'Special Master Future, starring Helen Chadwick and Richard Dix in “The fllorious Fool” will he presented together with the famous “l.eaflier Rushers.”