AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 November 1925, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODY!? PICTURES.

double star i’rograaiaie. “the digg-eh kaiU; and “idle i (hVGUES”—TO-NIGHT. .Mr Beaumont Smith, Australia’s greatest producer. has, up to (Into, produced twenty iilms nearly all of which have heon screened. “The Digger Earl" is a human and humorous story wound around the vicisoitidos of an English Earl and an “Aussie” Digger. who change identities and clothes. Of course, great expectations naturally ensue, and it takes six reels of good wholesome fun to unravel the tangle. The east is a fine one. being carefully selected by Mr Smith himself, who incidentally. wrote the scenario also. Arthur Tauchert, whose portrayal of “The Sentimental TJloke” will he well reniomhorod. plays “Dill” the Digger. The Karl is portrayed hy Gordon C'ollingridge. while the parts of Winnie and Bell, are taken hy 1 feat her Jones and lotus Thomson, two excellent types of Australian beauty. Duustan Wehh, an old-time boxer, (he villian. does his best to give the unsophisticated Bill and the gallant Earl its hurl it time its possible. The story is it refreshingly novel one. and the picture is titled in a bright ami eonimendal.de manner. Usual prices will he charged. In (lie second star picture there is a romance about a small town, its characters, gossip and dtiily doings that only those who have lived in one can fully appre' fate. The atmosphere has been transported to the screen in an effective way in Thomas H. luce’s “Idle Tongues.” from the novel “Doctor Nyo.” the new First National. The photoplay was adapted from the novel of Joseph C. l-incoln hy Gardiner Sullivan. Lincoln painted a word picture of the little town of Ostablo, Mass., in his novel. Sullivan and Lambert Hillvor have transformed this picture tu the screen in “Idle Tongues." Percy M:\rmont and Doris Kenyon are the loading stars. Usual prices will prevail and the Orchestra will render appropriate music.

"COCAINE,"--.FRIDAY. A picture that had a great vogue in England. “Cocaine." will he shown at the Princess Theatre on Friday evening. ,M licit controversy has recently ranged round the ever-increasing menace of the drug traffic. Statistics in England and America show (hat each year more and more people fall victims to what is undoubtedly one of the greatest < arses that ever creep into a country. Despite the vigilante of the authorities, the life-destroying drugs am smuggled in. and the stuff sold to miserable wretches who seek relief, at least temporarily, from tluiir troubles, by putting themselves into oblivion. Many ultimately put themselves to death. This is indeed a stit! state of affairs—that while people should sink to the level of the heathen races in this respect, hut the fact is there. Of these drugs the deadly cocaine is well known, and this is the title given to a picture which was produced with a view to exposing tertnin "drug clubs." and showing the evil existing in England. The story tells how a beautiful girl, daughter of a wealthy Englishman, finds herself sinking almost to the level of hundreds of others who. having litul one dose of cocaine, crave for it always. The picture is said to he a must dramatic one, and teaches a lesson that is sordid hut unt'orl nnate|v true, and a warning to others. Ililli.i B,a\ley is in the leading role. I lie ti-ua| support* will lie shown. Sperm I prices, circle 2s. stalls Is (id. children