AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 September 1927, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS’ PICTURES r ‘ THE -M IDNIGHT KISS ” -TO-NIGHT. “ Tho Midnight Kiss,” Fox Films version of “ Pigs,” the play that kept Broadway chortling for months, an produced for Fox Films under the direction of Irving Cummings, comes to the Princess Theatre this evening I'lie charm of the picture lies in the simplicity and human quality of the plot. Tommy Atkins Junior around whose medical experiments and business deals the story revolves is nothing more than a younger son of an average American family. A real boy in'every respect with a healthy disregard for tho female of the species and big ideas of what ho wants to accomplish as a man. -Mildred Hastings is a delightful i'ittle miss, a tomboy all her life, whoso right to the swimming hole is never disputed by any of the boys in the neighbourhood. But Mildred is a romanticist and she thinks Tommy Junior is wonderful and is determined to marry him! sooner or later. Lenovo her sister is I the belle of tho town, ruling over her court of adoring swains with all tho diplomacy of an experienced flirt. Spencer Atkins, Tommy’s older brother, is a lawyer by college training and an embryo poet by inclination. Incidentally ho is hopelessly in love with tho flirtatious Lcnore and doesn’t quite know what to do about it. Tho older people in the picture are necessary backgrounds for the children. But it is the affairs of Tommy and Mildred that hold the centre of tho stage and provide the romance, comedy and thrills of the picture. Young Richard Walling, one of the newest finds and the most promising of the younger juveniles in pictures plays the part of Tommy. Winsome little Janet Gavnor is a thoroughly adorable Mildred. Gene Cameron is the soulful Spencer and Gladys McConnell the flirtatious Lcnore. The older members of the cast are George Irving, Herbert Prior, Doris Lloyd, Tempo Pigott, Arthur Ilousman, and Bodil dosing. A Fox news and comedy also will bo shown. On Friday next Kenneth McDonal and Peggy Montgomery arc co-starred in ‘‘The Speed Demon.”