AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 March 1926, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS PICTURES. “TJIf; SIGN OF THE CACTUS” Vv'l'i OX E.SDAY. ■ lad; ffoxi<;'« latent starring vehicle “The Sis'll of the Cactu-” a 351 no Streak Western v. ill !<i■ .slum u in Hie Princes*. Thoai iv to-morrow (VY.-ilne--, lay; etcitin''. U in a vivid story of a silua- ; r, irial ha-, '•ten duplicated many time in i':*■ history of the sell leineiil •-J the West, that of the dispute betwv.'en tin. l settlers and the promoters of irrigation schemes. Iloxie has Die part of a man n ho Tins tlevofed himself to .saving from ruin the ranchers who tire m the grasp of an irrigation company. When a mere lad. his father was killed as the result of the dispute. This conflict continued Ihrotlgh-

oiit tic years that have intervened nil til he reached manhood, heading i • rt of Itotiiu Hood existence, he prey-

on tlie irrigation '•oinoany. using the proceeds of his lawlessness to help those

■■ho are being ruined. Tlieiv is a lone interest that starts when the hid meets I lie little daughter o| the head of the irrigation company. lie meets her again years af'■ruardis ,in dramatic, circumstances and she beenmes a vital factor in his

future. The picture has several s./u-----afional scenes, inelialiii.g a dynamite explosion and a desperate rescue of a girl from the rapids of a river. Tke

picture was made in and around ihe lit;!:- town of Columbia on the Stnni.s. an river in Die Sierra .Vevadu Mouiihiins in Calilcrnia. and some fine plioi ograph ie efiects were ohtained. ilelen lhdinc.s. tamoiis a f e vears

ago for !ut daring in serial.. i\ Hoxie’s leading woman, and the east includes Joseph f-wieltard, Francis Ford. J. Cordon Russell. Jack Pratt. Frank Ncwhnrg. .Muriel Frances Dana and Bobby Corilon. under the direction of Clifford