AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 July 1929, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

f KVERYBODYS PICTURES. V ' “THE VANISHING PIONEER ” -TO-NIGHT. •Their very existence menaced by danger to their water rights, citizens of Happy Valley meet in mass gathering to take steps to fight for their rights. They agree that any one of their number who sells his land and water rights shall be shot down on sight. That is one of the tense situations gfiZa ne Gr'ey’s,.• 1 The Vanishing Pioneer,” the Paramount picture Ifeaturing Jack Holt which comes to the PrinceSs- Theatre to-night. The mass meeting, in the picture is held in the ' church which serves as the general gathering place for the pioneer community. This scene was actually filmed in such a church in the pioneer settlement of Rockville, Utah, a little village-near Zion National Park. It was tlitere that the company from the Parahlfihivti studio in Hollywood went on location to make the exterior scenes of the picture. The weather-beaten frame building in which the meeting was field serves not alone 'ias a church -for the district, but is also the school house, the scenes of the dances and all other social gatherings.; find the place where the weekly motion' picture show is held. Gathered in-the-.building,-on the day the mass meeting scenes were >taken were scores of pioneer residents W of the district' , fvho j acted as extra ' players in the picture. They entered into the scene with fervour for the Zane Grey story they were playing in resembles in many ways'the life drama enacted by themselves and their pioneer ancestors. On Wednesday, Glenn Tryon in * “ How. to Handle Women.”