AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 August 1929, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODY? PICTURES.

u THE QUiL FROM CHICAGO ” ' ' . . /fO-NAGHT.

Master -Pictures, present Conrad Nagel and Myrna Loy as stars of melodrama, which includes in the cast AVildiahi'Russell, Carrol Panzer aiid Ei-ville Alderson. The picture was .directed by'Ray Enright. “ The Girl .From .Chicago”, is r . tense,: glittering melodrama, } the sodytliat keeps the audience' at high, tension from the first scene ?to the final fade-out. It ;recounts -the adventures of a .well-brought-up girl of'the old South, who leaves,-her aged father and braves the dangers 6f a great city to save the lif of her brother, who has fallen into th hands of crooks and is sentenced to death.' 1 ; Exciting and swift as mad horsey is the action, ofv, the melodrama which swirls the girl, known as “Molly; the Gal from Chi,” from one danger to another, until at last'she accomplishes the- task she has come to do. Myrna Loy gives the greatest performance of her career, because she has the first part worthy olf her talents., Conrad Nagel, always forceful and pleasing, triumphs as the dapper detective who is supposed by tl>e crooks. William’' gives *a characteristically strongr portrayal -of Big Steve, of the tenderloin. Alderson is especially appealing as the colonel of Jiefore-the-war ’ genfility,J pride and fierceness, and the direction has been done \vith great deftness. There is a strong story to build on, and the building js of the lasting sort. No lover df red-blooded, honest, thrillin melodrama should miss seeing Conrad Nagel and Myrna Lay-; in . “ The* Girl From Chicago.” A topical, scenic and cojnedy, jv.i also be included in the display. ,C)n Friday next Milton Sills in “ The iHflwke’s Nest.”