AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 August 1925, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

SVERYBODYS PICTURES. “THE CALL OF THK CAXA'OX.” TO-NIGHT. Coming to the Princess Theatre tonight is the* Paramount picture of /am; Grey's thrilling tale of the West a.s it is. "The Call of the Canyon.” The loading roles are in the capable hands of Richard Dix and Lois Wilson, and among the supporting players arc .Marjorie Raw. Xoah J’eery and Ttienrdo Cortez. It is a tide of the plea-si’.iv-mad section of .New York's society, find -ontrastrd vividly with the propositions that face a country after the war. It tells the story of a young man who returns to his fiancee to find her a leader in a jazz-mad set and then he goes west to regain his shattered nerve?. The girl follows, hut the hardships of really earning it living are too groat and she goes bach. But the Call of the Canyon makes itself heard and when she returns another girl lias seemingly won a place in his affections. A company of forty-one Paramount players left Los Angeles, Calif., for Flagstaff, Vrizona, where scenes for “The Call of the Canyon,” a Zanc Grey production, were iilmed in the country described in Air Grey's novel. This is the second time Paramount has undertaken a trip into uncivilized country during the past few months to got. authentic locations for Zone Grey •productions. The first trip was for scenes in ‘‘To the- Last Alan.” which was filmed in the Tmito Basin. Arizona, 200 miles from a railway. The second chapter of Ihe serial “The Ghost City” will also he shown tonight together with a good Topical and a two-reel comedy. Oil Thursday a special Master Picture “The Dangerous Coward.” starring the world’s champion all-round athlete Fred Thomson, supported by his wonder horse Silver King in the leading role.