AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 December 1931, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

£VRRYBODYS PICTUREB. “SPURS.” A romance “Spurs,” featuring Hoot Gibson, will be screened this evening. The centaur of the saddle in a riding exhibition that makes you cheer with the excited i cowboys who watch him. “Ride ’em cowboy!” you’ll cry. And you’ll thrill to this all-talking Western as you’ve never thrilled before. Here is horsemanship unsurpassed— and you see and hear the most daring of heroes carry off honours in an all-talking thriller: that keeps you breathless with suspense. Talking, riding, - fighting,* loving, shooting—is there anything that Hoot the hero of Western talkies, cannot do? “Quick Watson! The Needle!” Hoot doesn’t actually say that, but he’s an excellent Sherlock Holmes on horseback in that unusual all-talking Western “Spurs.” The Sbrial will be shown to-night, this week. A good supporting programme will be shown. SATURDAY: “NEVER THE TWAIN SHALL MEET.” Just" as America stands for hustling business, .France for gowns, Argentina for wheat and Spain for revolutions, so do yne South . Sea Islands stands for romance, hula dances,and,, intrigue. The name-of.. the South Seas.,, immediately brings to mind swaying palms with gay natives'- beneath, moonlight on glassy water .and unrestrained love and passion. In “Never the Twain Shall'-Meet,” which will -open, on Saturday at- the Princess Theatre, ‘the veteran director of Polynesian’ pictures, W. S. Van Dyke, tins brought the breath' of the tropics, the lure of the native girl, the all-consum-ing fire that enters the blood of a white man in the torrid islands and the conflict of the Caucasian and the native islanders,. In quick sequence the picture moves 1 from exclusive drawing-rooms ot the American socially elite to the island haunts of the Polynesians, there to bring into contrast the ways of the peoples of this earth. In the cast are Leslie Howard, famous young British actor, Conchita Montenegro, Karen Morley, C, Aubrey Smith, Mitchell Lewis, Hale Hamilton, the Australian Clyde Cook, Bob Gilbert, Joan Standing and ■Eulalie Jensen.

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