AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 June 1929, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS PICTURES. “ TIP-TOILS' TO-NIGHT. 'I here is a weird and entertaining nightmare scene in “Tip-Toes,” the feature at the Princess Theatre tonight in which a strange company of

famous people cavort, while Dorothy & dish as the penniless heroine of the story tosses guiltily on the silken be:l in the expensive hotel suite which she is occupying under false pretences. Michael Arlen is seen chatting "with Shakespeare; Mile. Lenglen cries because a Mediaeval woman snatches her tennis ball; Mary Queen of Scots flirts with a modern young man—and it all ends in a puff of smoke, with Nelson Keys and Will Rogers, both sheathed in steel armour, rescuing Dorothy. And when she awakens and realises where she is, reality seems more distressing than the nightmare for she doesn’t, know when the irate hotel manager may appear with a policeman to take herself and her tricky “uncles,” who are plotting to marry her to a wealthy .voting English lord, away to one of those awful English gaols which Oscar Wilde described so vividly. “Tip-Toes” is an unusual picture in more ways than one, because it was produced in London, England. A topical, scenic and comedy will also l>e screened.