AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 January 1928, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS PICTURES. “BERTHA, THE SEWING MACHINE CTRL” TO-NIGHT. “ Bertha tho Sewing Machine Girl,” went into retirement from the melodramatic stage twenty years ago as a ten, twenty, and thirty center. She’s coming bade as fou r- doll a r-a nd-for ty center, the last word in down-to-the-minute cinema attractions. Irving Cummings says so, and lie knows, because he staged Bertha’s come-back. He directed Madge Bellamy in the title role of this old stage favourite, now thoroughly modernized. It will come to the Princess Theatre on Wednesday. Allan Simpson has the lead in Miss Bellamy’s supporting cast, which in hides J. Farrell AlacDonad, Arthur Housman, Paul Nicholson, Sally Phipps, Anita Garvin and Ethel Wales. The Cummings Company was in New York for four weeks. Scenes were shot along Filth Avenue from Thirty-eighth to Filthy-second St., at the Battery, in Central Park, in Times Square, at the Simpson St. elevated railway station, and before a restaurant near Broadway and Wall. Police pursuit scenes were made in the Bronx, Harlem and Westchester. What are said to ho the most breath-taking scenes ever filmed wero taken during the chase of a highpowered yacht by a speed-boat amid the congested traffic of New York harbour. As soon as Bertha returned to Cos Angeles she found waiting for her at the Fox studios in Hollywood, an alley tenement, a sweat shop with its sewing machines, and by way of contrast, an up-to-date lingerie shop. The latter proved a delight to Miss nniy. Sally Phipps and Anita Garvin, for as models in the latter sequences of the picture, they had an opportunity to wear these dainty and intimate delights of the feminine heart. A real treat is promised the local audiences when the Princess Theatre gives its showing of this picture, for not only an entrancing story features -this film, but thrills of a kind seldom equalled, not forgetting the parade of Bertha and her companions in the above mentioned very interesting garments. A topical, comedy and scenic will also be sliojvn. Coming Friday: 11 Winners of tho Wilderness.”