AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 February 1931, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

EV£RYBPDYS PICTURES. TO-NIGHT AND SATURDAY. “BURNING UP.” Real moving picture action, combined with clever dialogue, is the treat in store for the patrons of the Princess Theatre, when “Burning Up,” Ricrard Arlen’s first starring Paramount picture conics here to-night, Saturday.

“Burning Up,” is a romantic drama, with lovely Maly Brian as Arlen sweetheart, and four of tile most popular character men of the screen in important roles. A. Edward Sutherland, whose recent successes, “Fast Company,,’ “The Saturday Night Kid” and “Pointed Heels”, were received here entheusiastically, made this picture. Sutherland is the wizard of the new method in motion picture entertainment. His stories move quickly from situation to situation, from climax to climax, and the dialogue is worked naturally into the action. Sutherland believes that motion pictures should first depict a story in action, and that dialogue in tbe crowning touch that makes the people more real.

Arlen is fortunate in his first starring picture. His role calls for the same clean-cut eharr.cterisntion which has endeared this youthful actor to moving picture audiences. As the story opens, Arlen is unwittingly mixed up with a gang of crooked promoters. He falls in love with Mary Brian, whose father is to he the victim of the promoters’ scheme. Arlen discovers the frame-up and, in a thrilling climax, which introduces some exciting automobile race track sequences, he defeats their purposes, and wins the girl. Francis McDonald. Sam Hardy, Fully Marshall and Charles Sellon, four well-known and well-liked character actors, are in the cast. Also four shorts. Prices 3/-, 2/- plus tax.