AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 July 1927, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EYERYBODYS’ PICTURES

"THE UOVK THIEF TO-NIGHT. An a miming lil'e of tlirils lias fallen to the lot ol Nigel Barrie, one of the prominent players in “ The Love Thief, ' which is starling .Vormnn Kerry and Greta Nixsen at the Princess Theatre to-night. Uarric, the. son ol a liritish consul, was horn in Calcutta, India. Alter 'an interesting early life among these strange people, Nigel went to Kngland to attend school. lie attended Oxford and then Heidelberg. As if such a cosmopolitan start should not he stepped half finished. Barrie became stage struck and came to America where he was an almost Instantaneous success in the theatre. When the war .struck the world he joined the Royal l iving Corps and lierame a living ofiieer. It was Ins duty to make observations over the enemy lines. Four times he crushed behind enemy lines and each time he managed to creep through the lines rn the liritish trenches and got hack i safely to the flying field with vai'uahle information. Ilarrie also has to Ins credit three enemy planes. When the war was over Ilarrie played with UFA. the big film producing company of Berlin. and recently came to Hollywood to renew his pre-war acquaintances. Others in the east of “The Gove Thief,” which .John McDermott, directed, are -tin re McDermott, Cissy Fitzgerald. Oscar llcregi. Augustin llorgato, Carrie Datimery, Clarence Thompson. Charles Fully, Alphonc Alartell, Anton Vavorkn and l.ido Manetti.