AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 December 1927, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS 1 PICTURES

DHBOTHY MACKAILL AND JACK MULHALL—'TO-NIGHT.

A thrilling airplane crash—an unusual trip through Coney Island’s famous luma Park, .showing tho big amu.seinent place from the* front end of a chuto-the-chute and a roller <ouster —an excellent cast r* 1 younger players—settings that are far from ordinary, and some of the most unique camera shots that have ever hocn shown on the screen. Those tire among the

outstanding features of First National’s "•lust Another Blonde,” which conies to the Princess Theatre to-night, with Dorothy Alaeknill and Jack Mulhall featured, with Louise Brooks and William Collier. Jr., in the second leads. It is a retd piece of entertainment. A great deal of the picture was filmed at l.una Park, Coney Island, which was turned over to Production Manager Al lto< kett for use m the* picture. As a result there are scenes that could never have keen placed upon the screen otherwise. And for those people who have never seen Coney Island, this

feature alone is worth the price of admission. Miss Mackaill is pictured as a dance hall hostess at an amusement park. And she, as no one else, lias the personality to put over such a role. With her closely cropped hlonde hair and her dim, lithe figure, she is a perfect hostess, looks the part and fairly sparkles in it. Jack -Mulhall, who lias hoen rapidly forging to the front among the screen’s young leading men, is a young gambler in charge of a crapshooting table. He fits the part as though horn to it, and his happy and infectious Irish smile wins his audience the same way it wills Miss Mackaill in the picture. Louise Brooks has a role in which she is a hard-boiled attendant at a shooting gallery. AVitli her saucy smile and straight-bobbed, brunette locks, she could be no nearer perfection. And William Collier, Jr., as

Mulhall's pal, is admirably cast. A scenic, comedy, and the last episode of the serial “The Winking Idol.” will complete the display this evening. Coining Saturday: “Temptation,” a great French picture.

‘•TiIK BITTF.It OLE.” MONDAY On Monday look out for the special production “The Better ’Ole.” After having established himself as filmland’s greatest female impersonator. Byd. Chaplin has forsaken that role and swung to the opposite* role of characterisation in Warner Bros.’ production of “The Better ’Ole,” directed by Charles F. Iteisner. As Old Bill Busby, Bruce Bairnsfatlicr’s universally loved character, Syd Chaplin plays tho gruff old soldier, set in habits and endearing eccentricities, with walrus moustache, stubby pipe, woollen muffler, fingerless mitts, unkempt in appearance. but with a tender conscience and a heart of gold. “The Better ’Ole” has been acclaimed everywhere as the funniest of war pictures.