AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 December 1925, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS PICTURES. •the riding kid from: powder RIVER”—TO-NIGHT. Karlv days in llie Far West have contributed seme of the most- .stirring; chapters in the history of the Failed States, and it is of this period that “llio Hidin' Kid From Ponder River,” Universal-Moot Gibson production, coming to the Princess Theatre tonight tbttls. .Much of tho material for the story was obtained by research work in the big library til Universal City, while the play is Lillee 11 from Henry Herbert Knibb’s novel. Hoot has the part of a young man who has grown up in the cattle country, and who, since youth, has lived for one thing alone am! that is to avenge the murder of his foster father, the only person from whom lie can remember having received kind treatment. To accomplish this lie had to wander, for years, over the trackless West. ’I he old mail’s death came one night in a tight against groat odds—a band of cowboys who hail threatened the itester, as liiev termed him. in vain, and finally resorted to ambuscade and murdered him. The time of the story is that period in the history of the country that Wits made exciting by the many battles between the cattleman and the man who came into the country to become a farmer. Tally .Marshall. Gladys Hulettc. Gertrude Astor and Walter Fong are in the .supporting company, which includes a hunch of the famous Universal Ranch Ritlers. Kdward Sedgwick directed the picture which was made in the vicinil.y of Fong Fine, a small settlement typical of the old days but continuing a flourishing existence in a small valley that leads from the loot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains toward the .Mojave Desert. California. Tho second chapter of "The Steel Trail” will also he shown to-night. Fur the convenience of country patrons a complete change of programme will be presented every Saturday. I’ola Negri in “Lily of the Dust” will he shown to-morrow. Saturday. On .Monday next a big First National •‘Frivolous Sal” with a strong east ineluding Mitchell Fewis, Dun Snntsclii, Mildred Harris, Eugene O’Brien and little lieu Alexander. ~ .<a, u i^gaMßHPne