AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 May 1925, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS PICTURES, “the cibcts cowboy.”— TO-NIGHT ! TO-NIGHT ! I harlo.- Jones in ‘‘Jin* Circus Cowboy.’ jjis i;itost Willi,'ini Fox produebm, "Inch opens at the Princess I henlre t< 1-11 i«j;lit. is Jones et his best. It is u rip-roaring action piriure uhich pi vo.s this popular slur plenty of opportunity to act as well. Marian Nixon, who has been hi- leading lady in several of his recent productions, tarnishes the romance and in the colorful -etting of the west anti the

‘•hit: top" there i.s enacted a drama of in l rigue. love and men that will hoid yntir interest throughout. The story i-. that: of a cowboy who. accused falsely of shouting a man. outwits

and outrides a posse and joins a circus. .Miss Nixon plays a tightrope walker who eventually captivates Jones, lint before she does it. she supplies the motive for some extraordinary action. One of the hip; thrills of the pictures comes when an animal trainer, spurned by the girl, loosens

the guy rope of the light wire while she is performing. She falls, hut instead of being dashed to death, she is caught in the arms of the hit; cowhoy. What else could they he hut happy alter that? Others in the cast are Jack .McDonald. |{ay Haller, Marguerite Clayton and Georoe 'Remain. The new serial In the Days of Daniel Boone, a comedy and gazette complete the hill to-night.

On Thursday ‘‘The Hero,” which is the feature film opening at the I’rincess Theatre, is the fourth release of Preferred Pictures, ihe company that has been making Katherine .McDonald’s starring pictures for several years past and that recently announced its intention to go into producing on a, larger scale with a schedule calling for the issuing of one pieiuro it month. The distinguishing point of the productions that have been already made by them as well as those to come is stories based on well known hooks and plays enacted not bv one star hut a group of feaTured players. The first special Preferred Picture was ‘‘Rich Men's Wives.’’ in which Mouse Peters and Claire A\ ind-.u-played. The second release. '‘Shadows" will he remembered as a remarkabb- story featuring lam Chaney and based oil Wilbur Daniel Steele ; “Clime;, ehing. Chiiruuuii.” These who follow pictures ilo-cly will doubt--1,--- recall the till:- e.iiiMic. praise woo | v this film by eriti-s everywhere and its choice by the Nation.il Roald ot Review as an exceptional photoplay to which it accorded a special showing before a large New York and-