AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 August 1925, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS PICTURES.

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Hoot Gibson is one motion picture tiir who might almost )k> lalielled

“sure fire.” 80 seldom does this rollicking youth fail to entertain that no immediate record of such occurrence is at hand. To see a sign to the effect tlml 'Tniversal presents Hoot Gibson

in ” is a prctt.v sure indication that that company has tossed a horseshoe for another ringer. Gibson's latest feature is “The Sawdust Trail” and although strange tales of hard luck during the making of the picture floated out of the Universal studios the result belies any misfortune. Hoot portrays the role of a college chap who fakes a strange personality because he doesn’t want to workin his father’s iron foundry, lie stays in college seven years and Ids folks consider him a weakling. He’s really “one of the boys” and a ring leader in a set whose pace was set with racing ears, hut this fact he kept carefully concealed from his father and mother. A noted physician discovers the youth’s deception and sympathises with him after one look tit the foundry. The physician manoeuvres to get him a job with a wild-west show and here the real fun begins. With the show is a greatly feared lady known as “Calamity June.” She hates men and mighty is the calamity that befalls the iad who attempts to court her favour, for he always courts disaster. Despite this she’s a likeable sort, and on her birthday the boys in the show presold her with gifts. The new member of the show troupe displays a sense of humour that nearly wrecks bis career by presenting the woman of pugilistic nature with a set of boxing gloves. She calmly dons a pair and knocks him all over the lot. Then Tic sets out to court Calamity June, and after surviving a great deal of punishment accomplishes this feat in one ol the most thrilling automobile chases ever converted to the screen. Gibson shows remarkable versatility in the role and is very funny. Josie Sedgwick is excellent in the part of Calamity Julie, a part which affords her greatest role since her exceptional part as “Juhilo.’ Harry Todd, 'Charles French. David Torrence and G. Itayiiiond Xye. all eontribute to the general excellence <J an unusually well balanced production. On Thursday William ’Duncan and Edith Johnson in “Flaying it \\ ild” a gri|spinir drama ol hard-listed moil ol the west, where a six gun speaks the only language they know. The supporting pictures on Thursday include the Groymouth screen tests taken by Beaumont Smith and the third chapter of the ‘“The Fast Express” serial.