AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 March 1926, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS PICTURES.

OX Til K HANKS OF Tilt WAISA.SH TO-NIGHT.

One of tin' most costly sets ever u. in making u motion picture was built for the flood scenes that form an important sequence in "On the Hunks ■■l tiio Wabash,” the Master Picture v. hicli will be shown at the Princess Theatre to-night. A complete tmm was constructed at low tide at .Man-

basset Bay oil l.ong Island Sound so that when the water rose "eight feet at high tide the town would be completely inundated. This is the first time In the history of the motion picture business that a director has ever taken advantage of the tides to achieve realistic flood scenes. The flood in this Vitagraph special production furnishes the elements for a sensational climax to the picture, which is a story of life in a typical small town. Mary Carr. Burr Mclntosh. .lames Morrison. Madge Keans. Mary McLaren, and l.umsden I faro are the principal players in the all-star east, fu the absorbing Master Picture. “On the Bank of the Wabash.” they’re all folk you know from your own town! Lovable, familiar faces, with joys and sorrows and laughter and tears—just plain, everyday folks. baring their hearts to you--in the greatest human inlore-l story ever filmed! In addition there is the most stupendous, aweinspiring Hood catastrophe ever filmed!

fee the ‘'Sarah Anne” steamin’ down the main street! On Thursday the sensational Australian story starring Arthur Shirley in "The Mysterv of a llan-om (’ab.” and on Kriday Xorma Talunnlge will be seen in " The Lady.” ST V. R EOSCOPI KS. A. '.'TV SBiIIKS OF Pt I.AIS. PENS \TIONS AT CONEY IT.AXIL

Tl.: ne’.' motion picture departure of stereoseopik film-, has already become very popular with picture-goers, who cannot fail to lie imnre-sed In the realism which is introduced. At the Opera lioil.se yesterday, the man-

agement gave a private screening of a new set of these novelty liltus. and i! is true lo siv that even more xonsa-

in the previous film. The new bin Peak with .Yew York's great aminternet: i park, Coney Island, and depicts

various scenes in lieu vast wilderness of entertainment, with so much realism that the spectator is almost foreid to believe that it is possible to

step out oi ihe theatre on to .one o’ the chutes or roundabouts. The first lea! nre of i lie film is a clown who plots s a glass of liquor on a board widen he pushes towards the audience. Further and further it stretches out until the spectator finds himself about in -rrei h out his hand to grasp the learning beverage, when it suddetlh disappears, and lie finds himself eonfronted by a. pair of writhing snakes, which sLreteh out from the hands of a fair snake charmer into the heart of the theatre. Such scenes are followed by a trip in a swinging aeroplane, and the spectator is forced to grip his seat, Eo prevent being thrown out. The audience is then conducted to the “C'hute the Pig” game. A number of youngsters are engaged throwing balls at targets: when the target is hit a lire pig is projected down a chni". am! to all appearances flies out into the centre of the theatre. When this amusement- becomes inclined to pall, the spectator is given the biggest thrill of all, namely a Irip on Iho huge switchback railway. One can sit calmly in one’s seat and obtain all the sensations of the switch back. First comes the hurtling rush down the incline. up the other side, round a bond where cut.? is faced with a brick wall: hut also as one shuts one's eyes expecting to he struck by (lying masonry, 10, we are safely through if. Fp and up another hill Ihe whole Iheatrescorns to .shoot. One moment I hero is nothing to lie seen hut the ,-kv, the next the spectator seems to he rushing down towards the seething park below. A house tabled “Dynamite” appears directly in front of the ear. only in vanish as the descent, eon tin in's:. A policeman is standing n” the rails in the distance, the theatre scorns to rush towards him at terrific speed : his hand is mil. in front v.

him. and as the car approaches; him conies nearer and nearer until the enn;lablc':; large and horny hand ; s thrud right in the spectator’s face, and the headlong rush through space comes to ;ui end leaving the audience gasping. •‘Whew.” remarked one of yesterday’s audience mopping his brow. “I don’t think I'll go on f.ho scenic railway when T. go to the E-xlii bition next week.” This film will he screened at the Princess Theatre on Tltursdov.