AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 June 1926, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

cVERYBODYS PICTURES,

THE All! JlAfl, ” —TO-NIGHT

The once little thought of air mail, now pioneering the way in nenimerciiil aviation and demonstrating that it is practicable to operate cargo-carrying planes on schedule time over vast distances. day and night, winter and summer, becomes a screen thriller at the Princess Theatre to-night in Paramount's “ The Air -Mail/’ produced by Irvin Willnt from the original screen story by Byron .Morgan, who wrote ''Code of the Sea.” and. others. Warner Baxter. Billie Dove, Alary Brian and Douglas Fairbanks. .Jnr. have featured roles in the production, adapted for the screen by James Shelley Hamilton. We can't imagine anything more fascinating or thrilling than the pictured flights of thy fearless air mailmen as they 11 carry on in all kinds of weather to bring the

mail through on schedule time—some even going so far as to give their lives in the service. The picture has to do with Warner Baxter, in the role of

Bit's Isane. master-mind crook who becomes a mail pilot to rob the planes, and winds up by routing his former cronies ami marrying a beautiful giri. Scenes of the picture take place at •Sacramento ami Reno, two big stations along the air route and in a “deserted city ” where Billie Dove and her father, victims of a poor real estate deal. live. Kane is forced down near Billie's home during a storm. He moots her and from then on they are the very host friends. Baler Kane, “ winged ” by two bandit planes, volplanes to earth on the desert, where, with Billie Dove and Fairbanks, Jr., lie gives the crooks the light of their lives. The picture conies to a close with the arrival of a sheriff’s posse and capture of the thieves. Playing in the picture are George Irving, Guy Oliver, Dick Tucker, Bee Shumway and others. Further chapters of the serial and a good comedy will also be shown, also selections by -Miss Williams’ orchestra.