AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 July 1925, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

McLEAK’S PICTURES.

FRIDAY- BUSTER. KEATON IN “OUR HOSPITALITY.” For several generations the McKays and C’ancltls have had an active intest in the other's death rate. The fierce hatred is handed from father to .son. At the opening of our story, only William McKay (Buster Keaton! remains on the one side while the Canfields are more numerous, due no doubt to a quicker trigger action. But William has been raised in New York in ignorance, and when he decides to set forth to claim the family estate, he is told a story which sends a cold feeling up his spine, by his aunt. ITo catches the castbound limited, and becomes interested in a girl who sits next to him. The carriages finally manage to reach their destination, ahead of the engine, and William is much surprised to find that his dog lias beaten both. The hoy and the girl go different ways. William innocently asks itvu young sixfooters where the McKay place is situated. They do their best tn kill him. He again meets the girl, who invites him to supper, where be is surprised to iiii'et these two young men. They are Canfields, but lie learns that they "111 not kill him while lie is a guest. Row t-> stay in the house is certainly a puzzle, which is finally solved by announcing that’ lie will be- a permanent gucsi. All tricks to get- him out fail At lasi he flees. The pursuers, reluming home next morning, failing to locate William, are surprised to find him ;ii. home embracing their sister. After lie tells them he has married her, after rescuing her from dashing over a waterfall, the fend is declared ofi lie mutual consent. A su]ici'li supporting programme will also be shown. McLean's supreme orchestra "ill render the incidental musir. The prih-.-s for Friday will he |)iv-s Circle 2s; Stalls Is fid. Children under twelve, (id.