AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 June 1929, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

*V,ERYBODYS PICTURES. LON. CHANEY IN DETECTIVE STOItY—TO-NIGHT. lf\you eppnt yourself among the millions cf Lon Chaney’s admirers, you are -going to-have a thrilling and entertaining evening when you see him in “The-.i.Big City” at the Princess Theatre to-night. In this colourful, swift-moving, action-filled picture of New ..York night life, Chaney plays the . role of a detective, and without the .use of elaborate make-up or disguises characteristic of many of .previous pic- & .turos he.,gives a truly marvellous performance. Marecline Day, who played the loading feminine role in Lon ■Chaney’s “London After Midnight,” . plays a similar part in this star’s latest Mctro-Goldwyn-Mayer starring vehicle, “ The Big City.” Miss Day will be seen/as a shop girl enmeshed in an underworld plot engineered by.a detective, enacted by Chaney. James Murray, Betty Compson, Virginia Pearson, Mathew 'Betz and other favourites are included in the cast. “ Tlie Big City ” was directed by Tod Browning, from a story written by himself, and'has been lavishly produced' with a night club and its spectacular ballet, and a thrill-ing-encounter between detectives and underworld* gangsters, among its hightights. •Further chapters of “ The .Trail of the Tiger” (serial), the latest in tqpi r . .cn'isy-j^ud- a->. sjde-spli.ttmg. comedy will also -o|;jnyiu(led.Tir the display.