AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 February 1925, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS PICTURES.

‘TORMENT .MONDAY. On Monday next at the Princess Theatre a .Maurice Tourneur production entitled •‘Torment” will he shown. In the main the tale of “Torment” i.s one of life in the raw. Blood-mad revolutionists .storm the palace of Boris, a prince of the Russian royal family, in search of the-crown jewels. -.Escaping, he is pursued over the frozen steppes, until dually he makes his escape, and eventually, hls way to Ameriea. Here i- a breath-taking race between an automobile and a train and an attempted bold-up of a speeding express, iielic-i entiles in some beautiful scenes at .sea. where the plot of a hand of American crooks to deprive the RusM m of his gems is hutched. Just :•■ the spectator is nicely settled in lii.s seat comes the Japanese earthquake. A cameraman with his tripod all net up on the August day when Yokohama was demolished could not have more faithlolly pictured the scenes of devastation and horror that follow. A building tumbles. Ail the characters of the story are in the vaults below. Slowly the chandelier sways. The llnor heaves. The wall curves in and out. Plaster lulls. Birders crash to the lloor. Marble pillars tumble through the walls to the lloor. ’file walls cave in. A 1 through it all the human insec ts sen; ry tine is hurt. None arc killed, pm days they live, without food and witlibut a little witter, in the vaults. And there comes the climax revealing the true characters of this little group of imprisoned humans—a climax which shows how character can he made or marred by hardship and suffering. On Wednesday next grand Vaudeville and pictures. Special engagement of Wendy and Alphonse, smart society c.ntorttuners direct from Fuller’s Vaudeville Circuit.