AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 July 1929, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

FVERYBODYS PICTURES.

, ,v' HOOT GIBSON TO-NIGHT. ir' i At the Princess Theatre to-night the ever-popular Hoot Gibson will appear .in his latest big .’Western drama entitled “ Burning the Wind.” All the excitement promised in “ The Vanishing Rider,” starring William was more than fulfilled when the first gripping chapter< was shown on Friday last i \at !the Princess Theatre. Desmond is un.to his pld /tricks and a lot of new ones as a demon rider, chivalrous adyentprer . and hurricane fighter of the films. Never before; has lie eclipsed the daring of h.is attempted rescue of the': pretty girl in the final fade-out, and never before has he had such a pretty girl to rescue. Who wouldn’t ride madly into the thick of a thundering herd of horses to save the life of Ethlyne Clair. Ray Taylor made a first class job of directing the picture from the story by George H. Plympton. ’j.ne screen thriller concerns the attempts of a nefarious and blood-thirsty gang* to get hold of a mine belonging to a young woman, who is guilty of ,no fault except that of • too, good looking, if suqh a thing is possible. Thp Vanishing'* Rider, a mysterious horseman with a price on his head, who comes and goes like a shadow, has been accused of all the crimes-’of the county, but most of the outrages for which the unknown rider is blamed were committed by the gang employed by Butch ” Bradley, saloon owner, leading citizen of a lawless town and arch enemy of the, girl. The new thriller is full of interest and frequent shocks. We left the girl lying in the path of the thundering herd, ,to be trampled to death—unless something should happen at, the beginning of the second episode to be shown to-night.