AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 February 1927, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS’ PICTURES

BABY PEGGY TO-NIGHT

Statistics show that every fourth family in the enure civilised world has read or is reading “Helen's Babies,” a story by .John Jlabberton, of which over 340 editions, each including a quarter of a million copies or more, have been published in America alone. Published forty years ago the book :s going just as strong as the start it goi at its inception. The best part of it is that “ Helen’s Babies” is now in trie pictures. And still better is the fact that in the picture version, u Principal Pictures .Master Production, that infant prodigy of the cinema, .llaby Peggy enacts the role of one of the babies. Although written nearly half a century ago every one who has seer, the. lilm agrees that it would seem that Hahherton had tailored the story to (it Baby Peggy in every respect. But the author didn’t. He couldn’t have, because Peggy .Montgomery’s activities in this world reach in years just those of one half a decade. Such opinion as to the coincidence is easily understood when one sees the picture. Those who know this child-wonder of tiro screen know that her chief attraction and magnetism is centred in her childish simplicity and ability to be just as natural in the glare of the Kleig lights and within the range of the camera as if she wore in her own backyard making mud-pies or playing with her pet dog, " Brownie.” The hook is a 11 houseword ” in nearly every home. It’s story, as nearly everyone recalls, has reached such success because ol its literal dealings with youngsters. It describes just what they really do and the picture simply lias to because its star, Bahv Peggy, is so typical ol the average child - The screen adaptation of “Helen’s Babies.” a Sol Lesser presentation of Baby Peggy, is scheduled for the Princess Theatre to-night. Supporting Baby Peggy are such cinema celebrities as Edward Everett Horton, Clara Bow. Claire Adams, dean Carpenter, and a host of others. William A. Seiter, the famous supervisor oi production, directed “Helen’s Babies. A 'Topical and comedy complete the display to-night. On Priday Ifoot Gibson in “Chip ol the Flying U,” a big Blue Streak ■Western.