AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 August 1927, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS’ PICTURES

THE LIMITED .MAIL’ —WED.YEKDA Y.

“ The Limited Mail,” the Master I. icture which i.> coming to the Princess 1 heatre on Wednesday is an old-time melo-drnmntic railroad story written I’.lmer \ anco and first published in 1887. It was produced as a play about the time of “ The hito Slave,” The Sewing Machine i’ ? und “Addicts.” Darry? Francis Znmick adapted the* play to the screen • Hid C (■urge Mill directed the production. a Warner Bros.’ classic of llio screen. Train wrecks and landslides

figure prominently in this pieturisation «>l Elmer Vance's melodrama of the West, hut the tenseness is relieved by the amusing antics of Willard Louis, who played a carefree tramp. Monte I'luc. in the leading role, gives one of

In’s host performances as a spoiled sou u tlie East who found himself in tilt? niggl'd mountains of Colorado, recalling the type characterisations in which

lie first won his screen success. Vera I’cyn'oliis makes an attractive little waitress, and the remainder of the east

is excellent. Charles Van Enger was ilir photographer. A breath-taking drama ni' Uk> great outdoors! An epic of lingo stool monsters that rush headlong over shining tracks! The havoc and destruction that follow in the wake of a train wreck! And. through it all. the fascinating talc of a virile, courageous hoy who forsook the false superficiality of the East, and fought the rugged, noble mountains of Co'forado to win his manhodd—winning also the deep happiness of love! A topical and comedy will also la? shown on Wednesday.