AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 February 1927, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS’ pictures

“ THk DANCERS TO-XIGHT. The announcement made by the mar

ngoment of the Princess Theatre that

f lic Dancers,” the screen version of which has recently been completed, has been booked as the feature attraction to-night is of more than passing interest to the local photoplay devotee especially as George O’Brien ‘ has the lead and Alma Pultons and Madge Bellamy play opposite him. This pmturc and adaptation of the stage success by Gerald Du Manner and Viola I ree in which Richard Dennett scored a triumph, is one of the biggest on the W illiam Fox schedule, this year. Besides O’Brien and .Miss Rubens' there are in the cast .Madge Bellamy, who plays “ Una” and Walter MeGrail, in the heavy role. Other prominent

motion picture names in the cast are Icmplar Saxe, ./nan Standing. Froeman Wood and Alice Hollister. Edmll lid Goulding, the playwright and scenarist, who prepared “ The Wan Who Came Hack,” " Dante’s Inferno ” and “ The Fool ” for the screen, also adapted “The Dancers.” Director Flynn is one of the foremost of his art. Tie directed “Hie Wan AVho Came Back,” with O’Brien in the title role and many other big screen successes; One of his first and biggest photoplays was the "William Fox production of Wark Twain’s master-piece of humour, “ A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur’s Court.” “ The Dancers” is a highly dr am a tie story of the Argentine and London. The leading character, Lord Chively, known as “Tony,” is a virile man of the outdoors who is equally at Lome in a dress suit. The story involves a gripping love tragedy and the requirements of the leading part are such as George O’Brien has demonstrated he can handle admirably, A comedy and gazette will also he shown to-night. On Thursday Frail Thomson and his famous horse Silver King in “That Devil Quemado.”