AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 December 1927, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS’ PICTURES “ syncopating see Friday The natural iissmiiptioii would lj( lliut tho lust place in the world to Jim u sense of itiiinouj- would lie nn undertnkcr's |in "lour. Yet it was from the tiiucrcul ntinosjilicre tli.it the motion luYtuiv hu.-iness ohtnined one of its f oremost directors of comedy, Richard Unlluee. who handled the megaphone K'tinjr Sue.” CoriniK Cri/hth's latest comedy starring vehicle in he shown on Friday night at the Princess Theatre. Wallace had too

keen a sense of humour, to he an undertaker. and so decided to resign from the undertaking business and became a \ audeville actor. .As an actor Wallaci "h<> was horn in Sacramento. California. played in vaudeville skits in the West and the .Middle Western States, and then tried his hand at the picture {tame, doing to Hollywood, he aligned himself with -Afuck Sennctt, the acknowledged father ”of screen comedy. and got his first insight into pi,., t tore-making as a film cutter. A few I months in the cutting room and WnlI hue vas entrusted with more irnportI ant duties. He to-directed one comedv "ith the late William Desmond Tavlor and followed this up with this diree- [ tion ol several series of shod comedies., To laimeh into the style of the titl, ' writer: Then came the war. His share in the fracas was the cutting and editmK 1)1 ike officinl war films in tin Signal t orps’ photographic lahorafttries in Washington. After the war Wall are returned to the picture field, first as a liim distributor, and then, after having edited “ Ihe Connecticut Yankee,” he again picked up the megaphone. lie diieeted Hack Jones and Kileen Porcv in a number of pictures, going hack to Seimett to direct lieu Turpin in a series.

A first-class .supporting series will also he presented on Friday, including the first episodes of the new serial. 11 Fighting with .Buffalo Bill,” and a good comedy. Ihe topical film extraordinary: ‘ 'The. Eucharistic” Congress will also bo shown, and the prices are as usual.