AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 September 1925, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

:V £ R YfiOOYr PICTURES, RUCK .iOXKS - TO-N ICIiT. Dark Juiics is ;i victim of golfitis. ii - the popular western cowboy star’s «>l l !.v known ami admitted weakness, in addition to his work. Ifnt it’s a long way between links for Hock; lie’s kept -o continuously Imsv making higgei and betot r jiim mvs to till ihe na > ionwtde demand id the littek -lottes' lans. H Idle on location engaged on I’iis late -t starring vehicle, "The Desert Outlaw,”

which comes to the Princess Theatre In-nigiit. ilitck tried the experiment playing golf on horseback acro-s the wide open spaces. It worked. Tiianks to the almost lititmut intelligence am. gulling instinct of his Wonder lm.se ” Silver.'' i'tick found he was :tl.l-■ to get away long drives, a.s well as fumy niblick ami mashie shots in and out of sand hunkers with which the wide open spaces abound. Ihe supreme test oi ■' Silver '' as ead.’y came, however. when Ilitck praeti I pm ting into a sunken tomato can. Mounted golf has polo heat a mile, according to Din k, ns a Western working man's pe.-i-lime. lie sides being good I'n 11 . playing around a 20 or Mil mile course is good cxei'ci -.0.

and good practice for keeping yom baud in when you can’t enjoy the red thing in tun-legged golf. Kvelyn Dienl, who plays opposite Ruck in

•'The Desert Outlaw ” got so enthused watching liurlc shoot the seductive sir en golf pill between ‘‘shots” ol the fasl fox photoplay, she joined him in several rounds. They kept iheir score a secret, hut said it was better titan thcv expected under the conditions. Oil Thursday a grand vaudeville an i pictuie di'plav will Im j:r<• -■ tiled headed by a William L'ox super special oi /site (dcv\ I'aiilon- western story

■■ The Last of 1 lie Duanes." -jarring popular Tom Mix ami the wonder-horse Tony. The vaudeville paid of the entertainment will he the- special personal appearance of I'lMitk A. Dennie. in iifteen minutes of .Music. Mirth and Melody. Vaudeville's jolliest entertainer, and premier exeeiliaut on the Saxophone and Spanish Harp Otiilar. Direct from record Ixuropeati and Australian tours. LADIES’ PIPE DAMP. vrstT 'i t i in >K n r ic.\. Oil • I,f the leading public entertainers of Australia, after listening to a performance o! the tammis \usiraliati bailies’ Pipe Daml. said they "ere “llm world's greatest novelty.” These sentiments have been endorsed by public opinion, for on every occasion "ben ill,, ha ml lias appeared it has boon mot i , crowded house-. It is interesting i,: note that tile idea of the present world lour of the hand emanated from Dnim-nmior William Darwin. D.R.G.S. who. having completed his second tour ol the world since the cessation of (lie ■. rent war. set to work and organised i n - tind lines.

Melbourne is the home ol the hand, wl.i!.. every Stale is re| resold eel exec).!. South Australia, fit order to prove to |heir own people ultat could h.s done mi tour, the hand set out on a journey through all the State- of the Commonwealth, and everywhere received unstinted commendation from the most critical writers connected with the Australian press. In Sydney the Dord Mayor gave the members of the hand a civic reception and staled, “ibe baud was etc- .1 the elwape-t and beM adverti-emeuls Australia has ever had.” )|,,l,:ir!. noj lo ho outdone l.y the Mother State. M-o gave the band n ii\ ic re option, idler which (ho f«nveritor. Sir Herbert .Yh bolls. aceotnIsi 11 i 1 ■. I hv l.adv NicliolD and members .j' t lie Ta-manian I’arliarnent. attended a grain! runeerl given by the bailies’ I'.'pc Hand. Hokitika is indeed fortunate in having a visit Irom the Australian l.adv '‘Kilties” and intending patrons are rerpieslod io bonk early at MeTutodi’n.