AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 September 1927, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS’ PICTURES

REX BEACH’S ‘ THE BARRIER” -TO-NIGHT.

Tlio phrase ‘‘ah' star” cast is especially applicable to the players in the .Uetro-Goldwyn-Maycr picture, “Tko Harrier,” adapted from ilex Beach’s famous novel of the same name, The principals are Lionel Barrymore, Norman Kerry, H. B. Walthall, Marecline Day, George Cooper, Pat Harmon and Bert Woodruff. ‘‘The Barrier” is coming to the Princess Theatre to-night. There was peace and quiet in the snowswept Arctic village—while offshoro, like an evii' 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. Could his love overcome the harrier 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 devolion, 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 colossal 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 thunderholt. A virile story of romance and adventure in the midst of the frozen wastes—in the land of the midnight

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