AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 April 1925, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EYERYBODYS PICTURES.

HKX BEACH—TO-NIGHT. The feature at the Princess TJieatro to -11 i <4ll l will he ‘‘Flowing field.” an adaption ol Rex Reach's latest nov-i-'l. This First National picture, which was produced by Richard Walton Tally and directed by Joe J)o Grasse, is declared to set new standards in the gripping quality ol its drama and action. -Vliitoii Sills and Ann (). Nilsson are seen in the leading roles of Calvin Gray and Allegheny Rriskow, supported In- Alice Calhoun, Josephine Crowell, Charles Sellon, Bert Woodruff, Cissy Fitzgerald and John Roche. Author Reach lias clio.seu lor the setting of his story a small town in Texas which had been thrown into a furore by the discovery ot oil in the vicinity, ft immediately becomes the Afeca of fortune, seekers and adventurers of every kind, among whom are Calvin Gray and Henry Nelson. Nelson, a former army officer, has gone there to become rich, Gray to avenge himself upon Nelson because the latter had been instrumental in getting him dishonourably discharged from the army. The enmity between the two men is intensified when both fall in love with the same girl. -Many attempts are made to "got" Gray, but be frustrates the plots and eventually has the joy of seeing his enemy the loser in the battle of wits. On Wednesday next Charles Jones will appear in n special William Fox production entitled 11 The Vagabond Trail,” and on Thursday next another of the popular Zane Grey stories will bo presented entitled "To the Last .Man ” starring Lois Wilson and Richard Dix.