OTAKI THEATRE.

Otaki Mail, 22 May 1922, Page 3

OTAKI THEATRE.

❖ — WEDNESDAY NIGHT. ‘•TIIE OLD SWIMMIN’ HOLE.” Ezra Hull, in ‘‘The Old, Swinnnin ’ Hole” is a plain country boy who, spends his idle time fishing or at the ‘‘swimiuin’ hole” with his boy friends. , Ezra attends the village school presided over by a stern male teacher. The youth greatly admires a girl named Myrtle, and spends'much time passingnotes to lier between his bare toes. A fat boy, called Skinny, also likes Myrtle, and site usually favors him with . her smiles. Ezra on one or two occasions indulges in lights with Skinny, but the battles are amusing rather than. . brutal as neither youth is of a combative nature. One day when Ezra has been given the job of tending his baby sister, he takes the child to the swimming hole. H'is mother follows, and when she appears, Ezra ducks under the water, remaining there until she departs. The baby goes to (he ‘‘pirates den” where lie smokes a pipe full of corn silk and gets sick. On the day of ‘ a fanner’s picnic he takes Myrtle, out riding in a boat, but she knocks him into the water and runs off with Skinny. Ezra says lie is through with . “wimmin” but he is filially comforted . by it girl from school who has long admired hint in secret. A feature of this picture is the fact that there are no sub- | titles. The spectator is aide to follow ; the story clearly owing to the fact that the wonderful acting of the star and the supporting characters is carried out in a manner that needs no oxpluna- : tioti in the way of extensive sub-titling. This makes a new era in the art of the . motion picture and claims a. victory for Charles Ray and the production of the feature. nr I