AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 December 1929, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBGDYS pictures. if; THE showdown. <■ TO-NIGHT. . >,4 . ’. I tr• . . . Special oil-drilling machinery, from one-oft the most extensively operated oil ‘fields in California, was purchased and, transported, piece by piece to the "Paramount ranch, .30 miles from Hollywood for scenes hi George Bancroft's- first starring picture, “The Showdown”, now showing at the Princess Theatre to-night. A derrick which had been-used in drilling a well that afterwards flowed several thousand barrels a day was part of the equipment. The entire apparatus was erected-' on the ranch of twenty-five hundred acres and drilling actually carried on under the supervision of engineers. The ... picture which was adapted to the screen by Hope Loring from the play ■ ‘Wildcat”, by Houston Branch, is the, story of a wildcat oil driller' carrying on operations in a Mexican swamp, 'file technical de-

pafifcment of the Paramount EamousLasky Studio went to particular

trouble to duplicate every’ detail of r> , pump-house, drilling equipment and workmen's quarters. Featured in support of Bancroft are Evelyn Brent and Neil Hamilton. Since Hamilton’s sterling performance in ‘‘Beau Geste” roles.,of importance have been assigned ,to this young player, who bids fair to assume stellar proportions in the near future. He has played opposite many Paramount stars, and does excellent. work playing opposite Miss Bisnt in the first picture, in which George .Bancroft is starred. Miss Brent is well known to screen fans, haying, many successful portraits to her credit, one of the. most outstanding being in ‘‘The Last Command , opposite Emil .Tannings, acknowledged the greatest dramatic actor living today. She also appeared in “Underworld.”