AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 August 1925, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVKRYBODYS PICTURES. “FLAAfIXG I).\ HI! I EH,S'’ •MONDAY. Filmed in Sonora. California, one of the Californian gold towns, George .Mel lord's Paramount Production. “Flaming Barriers,” which comes to the Princess Theatre next .Monday lias for its background a country in which much o! ihc western state's romantic story was developed. When the Foreign Miners’ Tax Law of 1850. which forced foreigners to pay thirty dollars a month for the right of mining in California, was passed, the principal opposition to it was manifested by .Mexicans located in and around Sonora. Several of the scenes for “Flaming Barriers’* were filmed on i:!ie hanks of the Stanislaus River, where, some seventy years ago. one hundred miners handed together to protect the rights of several Chinamen who had been driven off their claim hy three gaunt long-haired men from Arkansas. “Flaming Barriers’’ retains a strong flavour of the old days of the west, although it is a modern story with a gripping. fast moving plot. The little town of liurbidgo. where most of the action takes pbce. is a battle ground of which the things of yesterday and the things of to-day struggle for a mastery. The featured players who appear in this picture are Jacqueline Bogan. Antonio Moreno and "Walter liters. On Wednesday next the popular Fnglish actress. Betty Balfour, will hr seen in her latest picture entitled “.Word Knv’ly.” and on Thursday next another big Paramount sun ess. starring Tom Moore in “Big Brother.”