AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 November 1929, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS PICTURES.

“ \\iHEN foIJTY “‘CALLS” TO-NIGHT

Coming to the Princess Theatre tonight isc the Eric Wasdineek procFjcti r on,, .“ When Duty Calls,” featuring Rudolf Rittner and Helga Thomas. The film- which is being released tv C.A.F., the Australasian distributprs of the fqmous UFA company in. Berlin’, if.- a -gigantic story of the firefighters; The . story tells how an .old-man, is apisehnrged from the fire service phLaeeount, bf an injured knee received- in’ tip! train smash. . After! if ailing in'a the.ory test, he is' iforced to find work elsewhere, but it is when the theatre at 'which his - daughter works catches fire 1 , that he proves- that experience trill rnphsj over theory. There is also a spice of love interest introduced into the- picture, when Lore, the daughter of the fireman, falls in Jove .with the LtelApnant, who caused her father’s dismissal. Complications arise, but in the end-the two men .shake hands. This is a picture that lovers of action cannot afford to iniss. Roar! The magnificent Scala Theatre afire! Desperately the frenzied audience struggles to The exits, each vainly trying to beat the other. W omen’s screams and men’s curses rent the air in the awful panic, while crashing its \vav through the s-'riets came the fire brigade. A topical and comedy will also be shbwn to-night. li