AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 March 1927, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS’ PICTURES • .SEVEN KEYS TO BA LDP ATE -TO-NIGHT. Ho docs the wrong tiling Hit the right time cverytime! In “Seven Keys to Baldputc ” the famous comedy played hy Fred Niblo in which Douglas -MacLean opens to-night at the Princess Theatre the comedian plays the role of a young novelist who seel# the solitude of Baldpato Inn to write a novel in twenty-four hours. A band of crooks seek the inn at the same time. Gunplay, near-murder and general pandemonium ensue. And through it all Douglas Mac Lean, in the character of the writer, persistently does the opposite of the right thing at every opportunity. Once established at the inn, he mistakes the real crooks for paid accomplices of his rival for the hand of the girl. He refuses to believe that they arc shooting real bullets in their battle to secure possession of a. huge sum which accidentally falls into his pocket. When they rush from the hotel in search of the money, he mere, ly closes the door behind them ; when they rush hack into the inn in pursuit of the man who has seized the prize, he locks the door and locks them all in the hotel with him again. The climax of this inverted course of procedure occurs when one of the crooks apparently kills the gill accomplice. MacLean. rushes in. seizes the gun—and is promptly arrested for minder and accused by the entire band of crooks; One climax is piled upon another until the entire story is clarified hy a dramatic twist that is as entertaining as if is unexpected. Fred Newmeycr, who directed all of Harold Lloyd’s recent successes, made this one. Edith Roberts beads the supporting cast. A comedy and topical complete tho display to-night. On Wednesday: Tom Mix with Tony, the Wonder Horse, in “My Own I’alT