PRINCESS AND TIVOLI

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 391, 27 June 1928, Page 16

PRINCESS AND TIVOLI

“CHINATOWN CHARLIE” TO-MORROW

The programme being presented at the Princess and Tivoli Theatres, “White Wings,” the epic of the sea, and “Surrender,” will be shown for the last time this evening. To-morrow Johnnie Hines’s latest picture, “Chinatown Charlie,” will be shown, in this new picture Johnny Hines is a guide on a sightseeing bus conducting a tour of New York’s Chinatown, the Lower East Side and the Bowery, stopping at the Old Bowery Mission, the famous Wax Works and other places of interest during the sequences which are said to be filled with fast and hilarious action. A splendid cast supports the star in this film, which is an adaptation from the famous melo-comic extravaganza by Owen Davis. “The Circus Show” will be the second attraction on the programme, with Hoot Gibson as the star. The cyclonic Western hero, perhaps the world’s greatest stunt rider and acknowledged filmdom’s greatest broncho rider, has a role in which the thrills of a circus and the gripping atmosphere of the Western ranges are all combined in one fast-moving, hardriding concentration of excitement. Right from the first, with the scene of the stage coach surrounded with Indians and many dead and wounded lying about, followed by the sequence of the runaway coach making its reckless progress over mountainous highways with narrow escapes from plunges into deep ravines, until the big thrill when the tornado hits the circus tents crowded with spectators while the heroine is doing a trapeze act and is left suspended in the tent top, the picture is replete with action, while a pretty romance depicting _ the love of a reckless cowboy for a dainty little circus star round off a production that stands out as a paragon of screen entertainment.