AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 May 1926, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBQDYS PICTURES. ■‘TOO MANY KLSSES”—TO-NlGlfjl\ AY hen in Rome do as the Romans tin. And that's what Richard Rix docs in Jiis new Paramount star pictnre, "100 Alnny Kisses,” which ipens to-night at the Princess Theatre. Xul that the story is laid in Punic or anything like tli.it. In “Too .Many Kisses,” adapated from “A Maker of Gestures,” by John Monk Saunders, Dix has the role of a care-free young American who “works” in his father’s mining office in New York City. In I;is “spare time,” Dick Gaylord is a

ladies mail in cvOry sense of the word. “Too A Tally Kisses” have brought Richard into court time and again to answer breaeli-01-proinise suits and bis father's’pat icnce with him is just about wdM out. At any rate. Dick finds unceremoniously shipped off to thtiyrcturesque little town of Potigny in J’Pyi'onees—far from tlie madding r-rov.y —and wild women. He thinks this "D tlio ease anvyay, and is more thanStagreeably surprised when his busiv-cys abroad brings him in contact with Clio most beautiful girl ho lias ever seen. Running true to form, Dick fail's in love with her. Complications arise. Julio, a fiery Basque and captain of the guards of the town, considers Yvonne (Francis .Howard) his own personal property and he toils Gaylord so. .Dick ail but laughs in his face and tells the wily fellow, if not in so many words, that lie is going to marry the girl and that -ought to close the matter. But Julio ish’t to lie side-tracked. It’s l-.ot his custom to give up his “woman” so easily—not without a little killing on the Aside. He has Dick kidnapped and carried a prisoner into the mountains while lie goes about courting Yonnve. The rest of the picture is taken up with how Dirk escapes, at- I rives on the scene just as Julio is about to carry Yvonne oil', beats him up and takes the girl himself. Here’s a picture that has everything-—ro-mance. drama, comedy, thrills. It’s the greatest Dix picture ever. A 1 iss Howard, recently seen in the title role of “The Swan,” in which part she made her debut in motion pictures, is tea- I tured in this produciion. William I Powell is the scheming Julio. Others Include Joe Burke, Frank Currier, Paul Panzer and Alyee AI ills. A good comedy and the serial will also be shown: