AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 January 1929, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS PICTURES.

“THE FUTURITY WINNER ”

—FRIDAY

The blast of the bugle. The flurry of excitement in the stands, where are massed the flower and chivalry of the Old South. The prancing thoroughbreds on the track! The whirr of the barrier, sprung “ They’re off!” All the colour and speed and excitement off the Sport of Kings is woven around “The Futurity Winner,” F.8.0.’s big racing production which comes to the Princess Theatre next Friday for its premier presentation in this part of * the country. With a list of illustrious names in the cast which includes George Irving, Patsy Ruth Miller, Kenneth Harlan, A 1 Roscoe, Kathleen Kirkham, Mary Carr, David Torrence, Dave Kirby, William Franey, and Ed Phillips in the stellar parts and a strong company of supporting players. Director James Hogan has taken this story by Louis Joseph Vance and John Brownell and made of it a classic of tuiff history that will long be remembered. Two splendid races, one of them filled with all the spectacular

possibilities of the Steeplechase, give a sensational beginning and ending respectively to this fast-moving melodrama; and between them stretches a Artery taut with human emotion and brilliantly interspersed with some of the most uproarious comedy seen on

the screen in a decade. J. Grubb Alexander is credited with adapting and unusual tale to the purposes of the Silver Sheet. “It’s his life or mine!” Guess which. Or better still, go to the Princess Theatre on Friday when the next thrilling chapter of “Whispering Smith Rides,” will he shown, and see •for yourself whether the doughty Wallace MacDonald was ab>e to wriggle out of the perilous situation in which he was left at the end of the last episode. The pretty girl was abducted and held in a lonely cabin, taunted by rou rr h men. Mac galloped to the res nr l , onlv to find himself looking down tbs' muzzle of a gun. The coming n—nlf'sive chapter, entitled “ The

Bandit's Bargain,” is said to contain 1 all degrees of thrill and speed, up to, and including the limit.

PERRY BROS.’ CIRCUS AND ZOO. COMING VISIT. FRIDAY. Perry Bros.’ Circus will arrive l>\ special trains on Friday, January 11th, for ono night only. The management announce that this season’s combination df star artists is the strongest it , has ever been - their- good fortune to \secure. Artists from all parts of the vSlrld will present acts of unparalleled talent and daring, including thrilling tent-top flying, animal turns, and a host of spectacular items never before shown to a New Zealand audience. One of the many (features the big show has to offer is Jumbo, the largest tusked performing elephant ever brought to the Dominion, and. Tommy, the midget elephant, one of the world’s wonders, who can Charleston, dance the Black Bottom, and plays his own music. The show offers clean recreation and educative entertainment, and should have \an immense appeal to young and old. The circus will play at Ross on Thursday, January 10th, for one night only. Everything is coming, we never divide.