AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 November 1925, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

THE FAMOUS BELLRINGERS. TO-NIGHT! TO-NIGHT! .Much interest is being evinced by the return of this talented and popular company at the Princess I heat re this evening. The originators of their special class of entertainment, they have met with unbounded success and are now on their sixth world’s tour. “ Good wine needs no hush,” and so can it be -aid of the celebrated l.vncli Family, who have carried all before them, in lhe delightful alhiet intricate art of campanology. The English Concert Company includes .Mdlle. Lo Marchant, dramatic soprano from Paris, Miss Lilian Thomas, the noted soubrette. Mr Harry Baxter, the inimitable humourist, who arc each star artists in their special branch of entertaining. A hearty welcome can he assured this celebrated company. The Box Plan is now open at Miss Mclntosh's. EVE.RYBODYS PICTURES. “IX FAST COM PAXV”—THURSDAY A bill-ill not in the picture almost caused serious injury and perhaps death to Richard Talmadge, star of “ In Fast Company.” which is playing a special engagement at the Princess Theatre, when he was making one of the hig scenes along a cliff road on Hollywood Mountain in California. The automobile in which Talmadge was speeding was pushed over the edge ot the cliff by a pursuing car, plunged 101) feet to the ravine below where it was demolished. Only Talmadge's agility saved his life. Ho managed to jump just as tilt 1 ear plunged into space. Mildred. Harris, Ins leading woman, also had a narrow escape, having been dragged out of the car by the occupants of the other machine a hall minute before the auto went over the embankment. It happened during an exciting chase in the Truart picture. Talmadge with Miss Harris, was making a get-away from Sheldon Lewis, Douglas Gerrard, and a gang of roughs in another machine. They were supposed to overtake the ear, subdue Talmadge and carry oft the leading woman. That part of the programme went off all right. Bui after capturing Miss Harris, in the fie' which took place on the running hoards of the two machines speeding side-by-side on the winding mountain road, tilt.* pursuing car got too dose* to tho To 1 marine auto, ami struck it. Talmadge's ear skidded, the front wheels went over tho cliff, and the next instant it was turning over and over in a 100-foot drop. Talmadge felt the hump and the car slide. Dropping the wheel, the made a quick leap from the machine. It all happened so quickly that at lirst it was impossible to tell whether the star had cleared t Tie machine. Miss Harris, who was doing her first thrill picture, fainted, and a badly frightened bunch of players and cameramen stopped their ears, hurried back to the spot and found Talmadge sitting by the road, nursing a twisted ankle and a pair of badly cut knees. All during the excitement the cameramen in a third ear kepi grinding. When Director Horne ran oil the scene in the projection room, he found he had a. (brill he had not looked for. Also he discovered how near he had come to losing a valuable star. However, he took advantage of the incident, and put it in the picture. Consequently this thrill and about forty others will be seen in “ In Fast Company." Special attraction—Walter Vernon and Ginger, world lumens entertainers in ventriloquism, comedy and monologue solos. Prices as usual. On Fridav next /.alie Grey’s great story ‘-The Heritage of i lie Desert” will be shown, and mi Monday next Belie Daniels and Diehard Dix in a special l’a.ranioiinl entitled ‘-Sinners in Heaven."