AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 31 January 1925, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS PICTURES. “THE MEANEST MAN IN THE WOULD.MONDAY. Hei’t Lytell, the star of “The .Meanest Man’’ in the World.'’ lias a itobhy. l ie likes a cracking good game of iiand hall, and is willing to take on a swimmer any day. But Bert’s real hobhy is sailing on tho high seas. The star has a beautiful yacht, named “Camera,'’ and every time lie lias a. day off no hops to the waterfront near I,us Angelos. During the production of “The Meanest .Man in the World,’’ Lvtell entertained the other members of tfie company on these yachting trips. One of these trips lasted four days and the entire company hud the time of their lives as Commodore I.vteil piloted them across the channel to Santa Catalina Islands. On this trip was Blanche Sweet, Bryant 'Washburn', Lincoln Stcdnian, Helen Lynch, Marvon Aye and a host of others of “The Meanest Man in the World’’ company, including Edward E. Cline, their director. Lv tell began his sailor life at the age of six when he overturned a canoe on Lake .Michigan. The “Camera” can boast of having had on hoard more stars of the silent drama than any other ynehr sailing in the Pacific waters. There is not a week-end but that sin' is '.ended down with the star material. “The Meanest Man in the "World.” a I’irst National release, will he shown at the Princess Theatre on Monday. Further chapters of “The Eagle’s Talons” (serial) and a two-reel comedy completet the bill. Wednesday next the popular loin .Mix will appear in a big Fox special entitled “Eyes of the Forrest,” and on Thursday next, D. W. Griffith's great masterpiece “The White Rose,” will he presented for one night only.

The old pioneers who came out to New Zealand in the long ago P'ttle dreamt, as they shredded the imported black plug the store-keepers used to sell, that the land of their adoption would one day produce fine tobacco of its own, and in some respects actually superior to the best imported. But so it is. The industry is only in its infancy as yet. But it promises to develop into a source of our National wealth—a. point of tremendous importance to the struggling settlers on the poverty-stricken gum lands of the North which, poor as they are, v ill vet grow splendid tobacco. If but a fraction of this barren land, so rich in tobacco-producing possibilities, were devoted to the culture of the “weed” it would mean tho salvation of many a settler and the ultimate enrichment of the Dominion. The local article is much appreciated by those who had to give up smoking foreign tobaccos hectiu.se ol the excess of nicotine, which affected their health. Try “Riverhcad Mold” mild: “Navy Cut” (Bulldog) medium: “Cut Plug No. 10” (Bullhead) full.A tlct.