AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 July 1929, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS PICTURES. “ LIFE'S CIRCUS ” FRIDAY. {By far the best picture which First iNatioiial has yet turned out in its .foreign producing branches is “Life’s (Circus,” produced in Europe. The two partners of a tight-rope walking act have quarrelled, over a woman and for. years have not spoken to each Other,' although cbntinuing their act. In the .'circus in which -they are play.(jpg,,..a Trail little girl is performing a loap-the-gap sensation, certain to end >in Winking her a physical wreck. Rut • she, is so under the influence of'her stepfather that she goes through with it .nightly. The younger of the (acrobats, Ralph, tries to threaten the step-father -into discontinuing their act, but without success. Then he tries to force the 'manager of tlie c’ircus to stop it by inciting a strike among the other performers. This "also fails. Gaston, his brother, feeling that he really lias been at fault fn their estrangement, goes to the stepfather and during a quarrel knocks-him doivn. The polioe ‘come to get him that night at the close of »his turn, which' lie goes; thrpugli with j the knowledge /that they are Waiting for <himV. iJS&lutib'n Is ‘happy. Direction i by Max Reichmann is competent and often full Of intensity. Mary Johnson as the 'little {girl [has i helpless naivete, vei-y moving, and Kurt Gerron has a Jannings-like 'brutjility.. .Raymond Yan Riel and Ernest van Duren ‘are'more than adequate as the-brothers. “-Life’s Circus ” will be screened at the Princess Theatre next Friday.

. Further;' chapter! of the new serial, a topical and comedy will complete the \display. -Selections by.-the orchestra.

When your whiskers sprout, my boy, " you are a man, So act the part and do the best you can: Be upright, brave, and true, Push your weight till all is blue. Don’t be among the ones “also' ran.” And, Jimmy, just be suj-e, Take fGreat Peppermint Cure An order every cough and cold to ban. jji if; !., /