AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 April 1925, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

MCLEAN’S PICTURES.

“FREE AIR”.—TO-NIGHT

“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 Sehoenstrom which is really Roscmont, Minn., where Milt Daggett presides over the Glacier Trail Garage. AH Alilt’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 tubo from his garage, he had turned liis establishment over to his assistant-, and was speeding westward at the wheel of tho weirdest looking “bug” that ever hit tho 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 his own digging; how every difficulty of the road found him pegging along close behind, resourceful, eager, and willing to help; how he interferes with tho sinister designs of “Omaha p e te”—nil unite in a success of anticlimaxes seldom met with in a motion picture. Tho hold-up and attempted abduction of Claire in Glacier Park, tho mad chaso 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, Selznicli News and Cartoon will complete a gigantic programme. Usual prices will be char;;;:!. Reserves at Miss Mclntosh’s.

MASTER PICTURES.

‘ISA BY PKGGA'” - TO-NIGHT.

Alaster Pictures present at tlio Opera House to-night, the Universal Jewel success “The Darling of New York,” starring the child wonder, Baby Peggy. A child is on route to Now 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 by carrying the child on board the ship. The vessel jnills out, leaving tho nurse. The crook hides the diamonds in the child’s rag iloll and at New York is stopped by the police. During the controversy the child is taken by the crook’s pals. The crooks become foml of the baby girl, hut her presence is resented by Big Mike. During the night ho drops her in an ash can. The smuggler, freed by the police, shows up with the information about the jewels in the rag doll. A systematic scarcli 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 lead to her discovery. Desperate diamond smugglers and the police were battling in a small apartment. A gas-lit tabic lamp was overturned. A flash! Swiftmoving tongues of flame spread. Everybody Ill'll. Four-year-old Baby Peggy, por of .1 doll with a half a million dollars’ 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 the hahv was in the burning building. She screamed and fought, hut the police would not let her go. Two entire streets were constructed and many of the city’s largest buildings including AVoolworth lower. were reproduced in miniature for the production. The story was written by King Bnggoi and Raymond Sell rock and directed by Baggof. A grand sup porting programme and full orchestra.