AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 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. Two hours out of St. Paul the action starts—in the little town of Sclioenstrom which is really Roscmont, 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 front bis garage, he had turned his establishment over to his assistant, and was speeding westward at the wheel of the weirdest looking “bug” that ever Hit the Glacier Trail. How his fortunate arrival rescued Claire ami her father from the clutches of a fanner whose sole activity in life consisted in pulling motorists out of mini holes of his own digging; how every difficulty of the road found him pegging along close behind, resourceful, eager, and willing to help; how lie interferes with the sinister designs of “Omaha Pete”—all unite in a success of anticlimaxes seldom met with in a motion picture. Tho hold-up and attempted abduction of Claire ill Glacier Park, tiro mad chase in the speedy roadster and the dash of Omaha Pete” over a cliff to his richly deserved finish, stand out ns 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, Selzniek News and Cartoon will complete a gigantic programme. Usual prices will be cliargv.L Reserves at Miss 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 forgo!s her purse, leaving the little girl in charge of a stranger. The stranger, a gem smuggler, takes advantage of the situation by carrying the child on board the ship. The vessel pulls out, leaving the nurse. The crook hides the diamonds in the child’s rag doll and al New York is stopped liv 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 .Mike. During the night lie drops her in an ash rail. 'The smuggler, freed by the police, shows up with the information about the jewels in the rag dull. 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 tire load to her discovery. Desperate diamond smugglers and tlie police were battling in a small apartment. A gas-lit table lamp was overturned. A Hash! Swiftm.nving longues ol flame spread. Everybody lied. Four-year-old Baby Peggy, possessor of a • l<>ll with a half a million dol'nr.s’ worth 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 know that tho baby was in the burning building. She screamed and fought, but tlie police would not let her go. Two entire streets were constructed and ninny of the city’s largest buildings including Woolworlli lower. were reproduced in miniature for tlie production. The story was written by King Baggot and Raymond Sell rook and directed by llaggot. A grand sup porting programme and full orchestra.