AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 September 1927, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS' PICTURES REX BEACH'S “THE BARRIER” FRIDAY The phrase “ah’ star” cast is especially applicable to the players in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture, “The Barrier,” adapted from l’ex Beach’s famous novel of the same name, Tlio principals are Lionel Barrymore, Norman Kerry, H. B. Walthall, Marceline Day, George Cooper, Pat Harmon and Bert Woodruff. “The Barrier” is coming to the Princess Theatre on Friday. There was peace and quiet in the snowswept Arctic village—while offshore, like an evi? bird, hovered a scavenger of the Seven Seas. A phantom of the dead past—a sinister witness of a forgotten tragedy—bringing the blood feud into these frozen wastes. The battering pack-ice irresistibly down and locked the doomed ship in its mighty grip. In the cabin below two giants of the North fought to the death, like men of old, for the honour of a woman. C'ould liis love overcome the barrier of her blood? This age-old problem, over which hearts and lives have been broken since youth has known the meaning of love and passion and devotion, is faced courageously and unflinchingly in Bex Beach’s magnificent story of romance and adventure in the icy desolation of the Arctic. Here is a co’i’ossal epic of the Yukon—a pulsing action drama of the White North. The terrific realism of the wild scenes in the snow and ice-bound Arctic, drives home a smashing dramatic thunderbolt. A virile story of romance and adventure in the midst of the frozen wastes—in the land of the midnight

Further episodes of “The Radio Detective” (serial) and a topical and comedy will also be screened.