AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 November 1930, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

it; i i O . y:.- ' • EVERYBODYS PICTURES. ■ —- A DOUBLE ST ARgPEOGRAMMEJ. \ X fV j , / # ,' The picturcsyue Feather River in California served as tli© location for much of the action of “No Defence.’’ the Warner Bros, production being shown at the Princess Theatre ..tonight (Thursday). Almost a ' thousand miles from Hollywood were made showing the construction and 5 redication of a great bridge, as well as the beginning and iprogrdss of a romance between Monte Blue and May McAvoy, who. are .co-starred, in

the/, picture. Blue "plays the part .«bf t the cpnstrucifon foreman in charge”; of W~\ the buildfhg’of the 'bridge, and the dainty Miss McAvoy is seen as the daughter of the. contractor, who accompanies her father in his private car.;toi the scene of the work. The coast ;was. searched for a suitable locations for this ; • ambitious and it was, at lengtha great bridge was'being erectecl near Paxton, -California, where • the - comspent two .weeks working under the direction of Lloyd Bacon, in charge of the filming of “No Defence/’ Those making the trip^if,include not. only Monte Blue and‘May McAvoy, but > their entire supporting cask ,of. principals, comprising Kathryn. Carver, Ifilliftm. Desmond, liam H. Tookef,j£e£ Mbran, and ..Byd 1 Marshall,, as "well as a large number of extra players. The original «tory of “No Defence” was written by JRaleigh, and was adapted, for'-- the' - screen, by Robert -Lord, The second, star, is “Beware of Bapl;plpTSv"v.;.featuring June Collier. la 6d, plus tax.