AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 December 1925, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBQDYS PICTURES. TO-NIGHT! TO-NIGHT! Robert )\. Service, whose name will live because of his great poem “The Spell of the Yukon” bids fair to make it live doubly long as a result of turning novelist. Ho wrote “The Roughneck” which quickly became a hostseller and now under the original title if has been made into a photodrama and will he shown at the Princess Theatre this evening. Harry T. Morey, who plays the villain in the William Fox production of “The Roughneck,” broadcasts his “nar.sty looks” and generally ominous mien without the aid of hirsute adornment. “That necessitates a meaner expression,” explains Afr Morey, “and a

more violent manner when I leek the doors and all the windows to prevent the escape of the harassed leading lady.” It will he rememhored that in ‘‘The fainted Lady,” a recent Fox production. Morey had a moustache so trimmed ns to give him a decidedly sinister expression. Harry T. Morey lived to he idolized as a lending man.

blit now ho lias turned villian of the deep-dyed variety, bis latest excursion into the realm of niis-deeds being made in “The Houghnoek.” in which George O'Brien is the. featured player and which AVilliam Fox will j>resent at the Princess Theatre on Wednesday. Morey was one of the first of w screen stars and ho is still one of the prime favourites. A good supporting programme including a Topical and a first grade comedy will also he shown. On Thursday next a big .Master Piettire will ho screened, entitled “The Fire Patrol.’’ On Friday next a Paramount Special with Gloria Swanson in “Her Love Story.”