AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 September 1928, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVJSRYBODYS PICTURES. “ STEEL PREFERRED ” TO-NIGHT. More than ninety-fivo per cent of the motion pictures offered to the screen public to-day contains only one big thrill or “ punch " scene, but in “ Steel Preferred,” which was filmed in and around the gigantic steel mills of Pittsburg and McKeesport, Pa., there are four distinct now thrills—and they are real thrillers. No manufacturing organisation offers such possibilities for spectacular scenes as those of a big steel mill, and it was in the great plant of the National Tube Company at McKeesport, Pa., where the scenes were filmed. Hundreds of the 8,000 men employed in the plant are seen in the picture. The four thrilling scenes referred to are the most daring ever filmed with a motion picture camera—in situations where a mis-step meant instant death—and they were filmed amid the cheers of the mill workers who watched the proceedings. The scenes are:—The dangling of Waldron, a steel mill executive, in the grip of a giant tongs, over the red hot Besseniers —a perilous position for any man to find himself in. The battle in the crane house in which the tongs are controlled and which results in Waldron’s rescue. The wreck of the ladle train by which hundreds of tons of molten steel is sent hurtling down a hillside. The trapping of Amy Creetli, the heroine, by the avalanche of red hot steel, and her rescue by Wally, the hero at the risk of his own life. Vera Reynolds, William Boyd, Hobart Bosworth,. and Charlie Murray, are the featured play-c-s. Others in the cast include Walter Long, William AC Along, Nigel Barrie, Ben Turpin and Helene Sullivan. The story deals with the struggles of a mill worker to rise in the world. How he wins promotion and the love of the daughter of his employer is thrillingly pictured. The fist fight of Wally with a strike leader is exceptionally well done. The action is dramatic from start to finish and never lags. “ Steel Preferred,” which comes to the Princess Theatre to-night is a picturi/.ation of a novel and stories by Herscliel S. Hall,. James Hogan was the director.

A topical comedy and scenic will also be shown to-night.

On Monday nextj Lewis Stone and Anna Q. Nilsson will be seen in “Lonesome Ladies.”

1928 REVEILLE. HOKITIKA’S BIG PRODUCTION. The spectacular extravagan/ia to he staged by 130 local perfArmers under the auspices of the Plunket Society will easily eclipse anything of its kind ever attempted in Hokitika. Air AVilliam Lints, the producer, who has worked wonders with amateur talent in New Zealand during the past fourteen years, is delighted with the local talent and promises a city production. Air Lints has brought more than £I,OOO worth ol scenery, wardrobe and electrical effects. The Reveille is a colossal production. More than 300 different costumes will be worn at the opening performance, which opens at tho Princess Theatre on September 11th. Although the name remains the same the programme changes. Patrons wishing to see the whole performance will have to attend twice. A glance at the advertisement in another column will show the programme presented will bo a most varied one, introducing as it will dazzling elec_ tric.nl marches, 19 song successes, all supported by strong choruses, eight distinctive ballets, clever comedy numbers in fact, numbers to please all tastes. There will be 130 performers in the opening scene and tho closing scene, with revolving electrical effects in which more than 100 performers will take part, cannot be better explained than a brilliant stage Spectacle. Air Lints has produced the Reveille in New Zealand alone 40 times, staged 328 performances in whicji more than 13,000 different performers have taken part.