AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 October 1925, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

PICTURES.

•Till': .SIX FLOOD,” FRIDAY. A!cLea us Pictures present on Friday night, "The Sin Flood,” a Goldwyn picture. The story tells of Stratton’s Cafe in the river of Cottonia, the meeting place of wealthy stock broker-. One sultry day, Frazer (Ralph Lewis) has a quarrel with Swiff (.John Stoppling) another cotton broker. Frazer’s clerk. Billy Bear (Richard Dix) is giving a little luncheon in the banquet room to Poppy (Helen Chadwick). a chorus girl and some other friends. With Swift is Willianl Sharpe (Howard Davies), a politician, who is thought to have acquired money by substituting materials in building a dam above the city. On the street corners of Cottonia, an itinerent preacher. O’Xeill (James Kirkwood) exhorts the people to righteousness, ile is followed up by two down-and-oiiters, who pass the hat after the speaker finishes speaking, and buy drink's with the money they collect. They are au actor, Higgins (Otto Hoffman). and an engineer. Xordling (William Orlamond). That afttrnoon. Frazer’s clerk, Billy, overhears a conversation of importance in the office and goes over to his employer’s enemy. Swift, with the information. AA’ith this inside tip, the two make a fortune. anil .Billy becomes an independent operator. Later Billy becomes engaged to Swift's daughter. A few weeks later a cloud burst hits the city, and all these characters tare driven into .Stratton’s cafe hv the storm. The lioiid-proof doors are put up. and Stratton realises that they may he imprisoned a lung time. The engineer figures out that within a definite period rhe air will lie exhausted anil they will all suffocate. The saloon owner selves drinks to the crowd. Suddenly the lights go out ; then the stock ticker stops; t.he exchange must he flooded. 'I hen the telephone goes dead. They have been imprisoned in a death, trap, lor the dam has given way and the city is being flooded. I’oppv, who had been listening at the door, enter-. Billy and she are united once mure—in death, they believe. The preacher calls upon the group to join hands in a universal findherhood. Facing death, they follow his lead, fell of their sins and are absolved by their comrades a.- they stand about- in a circle and sing hymns. The air has become so vitiated that Frazer is on thl verge ol suffocation. The others see that they will all go the same way, and take a quick vote on whether they should thrown open the doors arid attempt to swim, the Hood. They decide io fry the flood. The doors are thrown open. A miracle has happened! The Hood has receded! They are saved! The supports include a comedy and gazette, and music hy AleLean’s Orchestra.