AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 January 1926, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERY BO QYS PiCTURES. JACK 110 CCOGAX—TO-XIGJIT. The romance of a childhood finds 'full sway in Jackie' Conga it’s newest .Metro picture, "Little Robinson Crusoe,” which is coinin'' to the I’rinco.ss Tlieatre to-night. Children, young ami old, are going to liavo the time of their lives when they see this film, which surpasses anything Jackie has ever done for adventure and real excitement. It’s pretty hard, these days, to he a itohinsou Crusoe and live a lot ol years all alone on an island in the middle of ihe sea, as Alexander Selkirk did he lore Defoe put him in a hook and called him Crusoe. With every ocean traversed by steam propelled vessels and - battleships of all nations prowling around to keep the peace; with dirigible airships floating aloft and hydroplanes making gashes through the horizon of every ilistant sea, what chance has a mortal to he alone anywhere? Alexander Selkirk would just have completed the solitary ceremony of taking possession in the name oi a man he’d never seen, when, presto, a crew from a passing destroyer would have grabbed him from the yellow sands and ruined one of like finest books ever penned. Defoe was lucky—and so are we—that he lived in a day when cannibals were still up to their own peculiar tricks and when islands of the South Seas were uncharted and unknown. Jackie plays tlie role of a tiny Robinson Crusoe, shipwrecked and alone and forlorn on a desert island. The mishap happened when the boy was on route to Australia, whither ho was bound from San Francisco. The hero’s lather, a gallant police officer, had been killed in a battle wiHi thugs, and the boy’s mother had died when lie was an infant, so an aunt in Melbourne had promised to undertake his training and had sent for him. But a typhoon got iii flic way and after tearing tho ‘‘Sara Winch” to pieces, tossed the sole survivor, .Micky Hogan, ashore on one, of a group' of South Sea islands. The savages think lie is a little white god. in which superstitious awe they are held and encouraged to remain by the chief medicine man of flic tribe, who has his own plans, into which the miraculous arrival of tlie boy on the island fit nicely, blow Mickey collies free of all his perils and saves the lives of other white inhabitants on nearby islands—copra settlement 10l U they are—supplies iho brilliant star wit it the most effective, thrilling, humorous and exciting episodes wherewith any Jackie Coogau picture has over hitherto been provided. Of course, iL all ends happily with Mickey Hogan back once, more in bis hometown, San Francisco, the idol oi the San Francisco police lorcc and a credit to liis gallant father.

On Friday a grand pieturisation ol Raphael Sabatini’s famous novel “Captain Blood” will he presented for one nieht milv. Special prices will be charged: circle ‘2s, stalls Is (id. children under 12 as usual.