AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 February 1926, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERVBODYS PICTURES.

“WINNER. TAKK A EL.” TO-NIGHT! TO-NIGHT! Buck Julies scores :i knockout in his newest William Fox starring vehicle, " Winner Take All,” at the Princess Theatre to-night. To he exact, lie -cured literally four knock-outs on the screen, knocking his opponents cold for a goal in four successive fights each more dramatic than the other. S'iiv it with knockouts, is the way you

'•an tell this fast action play from the fast moving story hy the well-known " Saturday Evening Post " writer, l.arry Evans, skillfully tailored to Buck’s screen measure by the masterhand of Ewart Adamson, scenarist and directed with dynamic punch hy W. S. Viin Dyke. Buck Jones, alias Perry Blair, “ busted ” cowboy, seedy and jobless, busts the dapper swell of a ranch superintendent on the nose for cruelty to the latter’s “ lil’ boss.” Its one of the roughest, toughest-, western scraps ever screened. Buck wins. The cowboy, though green to the squared ring, takes on the local henvywight champ for 200 “ bucks ” and knocks him out in the first round. But first he puts to sleep with ont wallop the big fat fight promoter whom he catches insulting a little eastern girl at the station. Then the cowboy pugilist tights his way east to championship lame. But won’t agree to a crooked light; so the promoters that made him “ break ” him. After falling passionately for a princess of night life, who prefers to play a millionaire for a percentage split with life, the ‘‘busted” champ is lured into a framed championship match. “ TVinncr Take All.” which is probably the greatest screen prize light ever shown. His winnings include the winsome girl whom he really loves. And the clothes —or lack of clothes, the gayetv, the giant folly of the night life of New York ! Pretty Peggy Shaw plays opposite Buck .Tones, and the splendid east includes Edward Hearn, William Norton Bailey, Lilyan Tashmau and Ben Dooley. Thursday:—Great Double Star Programme. including “Three Wise Kooks” and Beaumont Smith’s great Australian 3-recl production “Prehistoric Hayseeds.” Coming Friday. "The Story without a Name.” Coming Saturday, “Tiger Love.”