AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 April 1925, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

McLEAN’S PICTURES.

“FREE AIR.”—FRIDAY.

“Free Air” the story of a New York society girl who volunteers to accompany her wealthy father on an automobile trip from St. Paul to the Coast, Before leaving she promises a persistent suitor that he will have his “Yes” or “No” on her return. A shiny new “National” speedster is rolled off a flat car in the St. Paul railway yards, and the trip towards the sunset begins. Tmo hours out ol St. Paul the action starts—in the little toMn of Schoonstrom M’liich is really Rosemont, Minn., where Milt Daggett presides over the Glacier Trail Garage. All Milt’s ideas of life were turned topsy-turvy upon the arrival of the girl from the East, and ten minutes after she had purchased an inner tube from his garage, he had turned his establishment over to his assistant, and Mas speeding westward at the wheel of the weirdest looking “bug” that ever hit the Glacier Trail. How his fortunate arrival rescued Claire and her father from the clutches of a farmer whose sole activity in life consisted in pulling motorists out of mud holes of liis oMn digging; lion- every difficulty of the road found him pegging along close behind, resourceful, eager, and willing to help; liom - he interferes with the sinister designs of “Omaha, Pete”—all unite in a success of anticlimaxes seldom met with in a motion picture. The hold-up and attempted abduction of Claire in Glacier Park, the mad chase in the speedy roadster and the dash of Omaha Pete” over a cliff to his richly deserved finish, stand out as breath-taking episodes, in a picture that, even though you held.a stop watch on it, hasn’t a dull_ or dragging instant.

A scenic, gazette, Selznick News and Cartoon will complete a gigantic programme. Usual prices will be char ; id. Reserves at AI iss Mclntosh’s. MASTER PICTURES. “ BABY PEGGY ’’—FRIDAY. Master Pictures present at the Opera House on Friday, the Universal .Jewel success “The Darling of New York,” starring the child wonder, Baby Peggy. A child is on route to New York from an Italian port with her governess, who forgets her purse, leaving the little girl in charge of a stranger. The stranger, a gem smuggler, takes advantage of the situation bv carrying the child on hoard the ship. The vessel nulls out. leaving the nurse. The crook hides the diamonds in the child’s rag doll and at New York is stopped by the police. During the controversy the child is taken by the crook’s pals. The crooks become fond of the baby girl, but her presence is resented by Big Alike. During the night he drops her in an ash can. The smuggler, freed by the police, shows up M’itli the information about the jewels in the rag doll. A systematic search is made for the child, who, in the meanwhile, has been taken in by a kindly old Jewish shoemaker, with nine children. A police raid and a spectacular fire load to her discovery. Desperate diamond smugglers and the police were battling in a small apartment. A gas-lit table lamp Mas overturned. A Hash ! Swiftmoving tongues of flame spread. Everybody fled. Four-vear-old Baby Peggy, possessor of a doll with a hall a million dollars’ woi th of smuggled, jewels in its lining, cowered in a neighbouring room. A woman was seized in the scuffle and dragged into a police wagon. She alone knew that the baby Mas in the burning building. She screamed and fought, lmt the police Mould not let her go. Two entire streets Mere constructed and many of the city’s largest buildings including V, oolworlh lower, Mere reproduced in miniature lor the production. The story was written by King l’.aggot and Raymond Sehrock and directed by Raggof. A grand sup porting programme and full orchestra.