AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 November 1929, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS PICTURES. . :■)/.' f:;' ;.•: •. • • BEBE DANIELS IN “WHAT A V NIHHT ”ATO-NIG HT. ■ Fay f.:gve .years Editor Madison "of “ 'I he Chronicle ” has been trying to expose the grafting connection between \ l’eilitfcitl 'Boss Patterson and Gang Leader Alike Corney. At last Madison obtains, possession of a cancelled check, which gives him sufficient proof to publish a story. Corney steals the check, However, and Madison’s son, Joe, a reporter, goes after it. In his chase for the check, Joe is thwarted by being forced to rescue a girl whom he de- ' scribes as “beautiful but dumb,’’ on two critical occasions. He goes back Jo' his office and admits defeat, and his fatherSgheets; him with the news that the newspaper’s biggest advertiser wishes-hu daughter to have a reporting position on the paper. Joe offers to “ bi- , eak>vher in,” but he discovers that his protegee is to be the “ beautiful but dumb” girl of the accidents. She is' Dorothy Winston. One of Corriey’s .gunmen;lands in jail and Dorothy par- ’ tially redeems herself with Joe by getting him to talk where other reporters have failed. She learns where the check is hidden, but, when she tells Joe, Corney overhears the conversation. Joe goes to Corney’s home to steal the check. He finds it and telephones his father to print the story. As he hangs ffp the receiver, he finds himself covered fiy Comey’s gun, and Corney recovers the check. Joe’s father, lacking the check to prove his printed charges true, faces a damaging libel suit, which Corney threatens to push to the limit. Dorothy hears that the two schemers, Rj&tterson and Corney, have a rendezin a warehouse, and she hurries there. After a series of narrow escapes she gets the story and pfiotograhic pi oof of conspiracy and graft. 9 The paper is saved, and Dorothy wins Joe. The supports include a t-opicnl, “Collegians,” serial, and comedy, and the orchestra will play the Incidental score.