AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 August 1927, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS’ PICTURES

THE .LIMITED - I AIL”—TO-NIGHT.

If you want excitement; if you are iu search of a thrill, drop into the Princess Theatre and see “The Limited Mail,” the Master Picture which will be shown there to-night, and you’ll get enough thrills to satisfy you and some to spare! Elmer Vance’s old-time melodrama, with its romantic story of the engineer who was tiio disowned son of a millionaire, gains tremendously in effectiveness on the screen. The excitement of the mountain landslides and train wrecks makes the audience gasp with excitement. Then the picture will he screened with the majestic beauty of fho Colorado mountains as a background—such a background as the stage never could suggest. Monte Blue is featured in the type role which first brought him into notice in the film wori'd—the husky, virile hero, in this case a railroad engineer. Vera Reynolds, loaned to Warners by Cecil do .Wille for this production, makes an attractive little waitress, with whom the engineer falls in love. Hiding in the mountains with his grief and remorse. hiding even from himself. Hob watched the Limited Mail tear past on its daily trips. And then to sec another landslide menace its safety; to swim the river to warn the engineer and have little Robbie foll'ow; to he torn between love for the hoy and his duty to the train.—See Monte Rlue in his best role in ” The Limited Mail.” a Warner Pros.’ classic of the screen, nr the Princess Theatre to-night. A fine supporting programme also will he shown, including a topical and comedy.