AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 July 1927, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS* PICTURES

JAAt MS Oi.IV KB C'UK WOOD’S STORY' TO-NIGHT.

Anita Stewart, ilia star of Muster Pictures' “Bn roe, Son of Kazan,” w liii'll opens at tlio Princess Theatre tonight i.-, a -'til'd, decree '‘Snow-Bird.” -Siic qualified for membership in that

select circle of all-year-round swimmers when float!no on a, bclow-stern morning down a blood-chilling black river between snow -covered. icicle-decorated banks in the face of an icy canyon breeze. In the story of “liaree,” Nb-

pee.se, tbe Irciich-Tmlian <rirl. floats not swims, down stream to a point where she is palled out by Tuboa, an old Indian. Gazing on the icy Truckcc river in California. Al i.ss Stewart .shivered. Thoughts of the muscle-paraly-sing cold restrained her for a moment. Then she laughed bravely—-and plunged in. The first few yards were almost too much for endurance. They seemed like a mile. Deadening pains set in. and it was all the star could do to keep from .striking for the .shore. But the order was not to move arms or legs, merely letting the frigid scene hear her along as it would. She wanted to scream out her terror, hut found herself breathless from the shock. If was a long time, indeed, before .fames 0 Xeill. who plays Tuhoa. reached mil and drew her up one of the hanks. Attendants rushed Miss ,Stewart into a nearby tent, whore a trained nurse, "’ho was in waiting, applied restoratives. On her recovery. Miss Stewart received the congratulations of David Smith. I lie producer, on her remarkable fortitude and her vivid porfraval of helplessness in the water. “But T wasn't acting.” cried the star. “The "aler was so frightfully cold 1 was utterly helpless and simply couldn't scream.” The supports in to-night’s display include a Topical and a. good Comedy. On Wednesday next a Paramount Special, starring Percy Manumit in ‘•The Street of Forgotten Mon.”