AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 January 1927, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS PICTURES.

THE STILE ALARM ” —TO-NIGHT

“ The Still Alarm ” is a modernised screen version of the famous old melodrama of the same name that for years thrilled millions of theatre patrons. In it Universal has linked the firefighter of other days with his successor of to-day. Onto the screen dash the picturesque horse-drawn apparatus of the past and then with the lapse of time, IS years, comes the powerful motorized apparatus of to-day. Bells clang, sirens shriek; an old-time tenement house goes up in flames and a modern one falls prey to fire. These fire scenes, with their clouds of smoke and tongues of flame, the working firemen and the endangered people, are as realistic as anything could he outside of a real lire. One almost smelled the smoke and heard the appeals of the inmates of the burning buildings and one certainly did thrill at the daring rescues. Into the cast of this groat picture Universal has placed some ol the' foremost men and women players of the screen. In fact it might well he termed an all-star cast. Helene ( hadwick. in the leading feminine role, gives a sympathetic conception of the character of Lucy Fay. wife of Fireman Dick Fay. struggling between love for her husband and hatred of the drudgci'v of housework and desire for line clothes. Siie finally succumbs to the lure ol llio channel 1 , deserts her husband and next we see her as Madame Celeste, proprietress of the smart modisle shop in which she has been placed by her 'lover. Miss Chadwick proves once more in this dual character that! s.:e is an actress of consummate skill. A Cazette and comedy will also he shown. .Miss Williams’ orchestra will play the incidental score.