AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 February 1928, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS PICTURES.

HOOT GIBSON TO-NIGHT. " Long years ol experience have convinced motion picture producers that the movie lans crave excitement and i lii-ills, lightly sprinkled with a seasoning of laughs. .Motion picture devotees also are fond of dramatic and spectacular productions hut appear in ho satisfied with only an occasional dish of that form of diversion. That is whv T'niverxal Pictures will continue to set aside a substantial portion of its production budget to the making of pictures which will fill the demand for iarcc-coinedie.s, comedy-dramas and Westerns.” These views regarding the tastes ol the movie-going public in the matter of film diversion were expressed b.v Hoot Gibson. Western motion picture star, whoso I nivorsal-Jowel production. " Hey! Key! Cowboy,” will he screened at the Princess Theatre tin's evening. Hoof has made millions . ol movie-goers the world over laugh at his antics on the l screen. Gotii inually stewing in a pot of trouble of bis own cooking, he nevertheless succeeds in arotming the sympathy that usually goes to the uuder-dog. A horseman of unusual ability even among the pick of riders oi unbroken hroncs, Gibson is just as much at home behind the steering wheel ol a. racing ear as be is in Ibe seat of bis silver-mounted saddle. In ‘‘Hey! Ui-y! ( uv> boy ” you will he with Gibson in the spirit as you see him trying to act. as a peacemaker among opposing hands of hostile cowboys, receiving heatings and ill-treat-ment for his pains. He is supported in this last-moving, laugh-provoking, sympathy-arousing serin-comedy, by a featured cast, including Kathleen Key. “Slim” Summerville, .Monte .Montague, Wheeler Oaktnan. Clarke Comstock, Jim Corey. Xiclc Cogley, Xlilia Davenport and others. Cuiversnl Xews. comedy and further chapters of the serial will also lie . shown.