AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 March 1925, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

“ THE FORBIDDEN VALLEY.”

“ The Forbidden Valley ” is the title of the feature screening at Princess Theatre on Friday. May McCoy, as the daughter of an old Kentucky family living amidst warlike surroundings, is ably supported by Bruce Gordon. A feud is revived by a cowardly act of revenge which leaves the giri fatherless. Years later she is called upon to take the life of her lover, having been informed that lie is a member of the opposing family. Ritle in hand, she sets forth into the hills, and with careful aim fires at the man who had won her heart. She then learns the man was innocent, and a surprising climax reveals the identity of the last member of tbo lawless family. AVlien the young surveyor, the advance guard of civilisation, pushed ahead into the valley he little new that romance and death reigned there. Romance came first in tho form of a shy lily of the valley, hut when she learned that the fetid of her fathers demanded his death she blindly sot forth to kill.

A strong supporting programme, consisting of a. two-reel comedy Gazette, will also be shown. Alcl.can’s Supreme Orchestra render appropriate selections. Usual prices will prevail. On Saturday, a. thrilling six-act drama entitled “ Free Air ” will he screened.

Coming—-The great picture, ” Souls for Sale.”

MASTER PICTURES. FRIDAY. BETTY COAIPTON IX CROOK ROLE. To save thousands of men, women and children from a fate, worse than death, a girl crook elects to aid a district attorney in bis individual campaign, uiisanetioned by authority, against a. ring of malefactors. Petty Cotnpson plays this role in a new Raramount picture, which is to he screened at the Opera House on Friday evening. She was the most beautiful, most skilled. most daring crook the police ever had to cope with. And then site stole the district attorney’s heart. -Such is Betty Compsnn ill “ The Woman A\ tilt Four Faces,” a melodrama, filled With thrills and heart throbs. Richard Dix is the leading man. To bring to loo!-: a ring of dope traffickers, men of wealth and powerful, tho district attorn resigns his job and gains the aid of a clever girl crook to open a safe which contains paper incriminating tflie.se ti-ofarifotts operators. She tells him there is but one man who van do tho trick, and he is in prison. An escape is effected by means of an aeroplane, hut the crook, believing '.he district attorney is trying to win tho girl’s love, refuses to aid him. Then they go after the paper hy different tactics, li. is the centre of a mad struggle for its possession and a scries of climaxes are piled on top of one another ere the attorney secures the document ami sends the guilty one to prison. In the end. the girl, 'reformed, wins the love of the district attorney. Crook pictures may. come and crook pictures may go but here’s one that will live tor ever in vour memory.

Good supports; Bonetti’s orchestra and usual prices.

MCLEAN’S PICTURES.