AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 August 1928, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS PICTURES. JACKIE COOGAN FRIDAY. The most popular boy on the screen to-day, Jackie Coogan, will be the star attraction at the Princess Theatre on Friday in his latest picture, entitled “ The Bugle Call.” One of the most gripping and enthralling pictures of this year is “ The Bugle Call,” Jackie Coogan’s hew starring vehicle, in which ho appears as a bugler attached to a frontier post. This powerful humaninterest story of the days of the early West is told against a background of smashing action and stirring drama. Jackie plays the part of a boy bugler of a frontier cavalry post who cherishes a deep and loyal devotion to the memory of his dead mother. His father romarrics and commands the boy to call his stepmother “mother” and try hard to love her. The ensuing conflict of emotions which ends happily in the boy’s capitulation to the young woman’s courage, tenderness, and beauty, provides many tensely dramatic scenes. Beautiful Claire Windsor heads a notable supporting cast as the stepmother who triumphs over Jackie’s strong-headed views on re-marriage, and Herbert Rawlinson plays the part of the father, a cavalry officer in charge of the post, with skilled restraint. Tom O’Brien is humorous and convincing as Sergeant Ooolan. “ The Bugle Call ” is a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture, directed by Edward Sedgwick, and provides satisfying fare for tins lovers of stirring romance.

The latest in topicals, further chapters of the serial and a good, comedy also will be shown on Friday. On Saturday Lois Moran will be seen in “ The Whirlwind of Youth.”