AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 January 1927, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS PICTURES.

" NOT SO I.OXO AGO TO-NIGHT. •• Xot So Lolly Ago/’ the Sidney 01rott Paramount Picture, is a charming romance of the clays not so long ago in Now York. Betty Bronson, the “Peter Ban girl and Ricardo Cortez seen recently in “The Spaniard,’’ are the •stars ol the picture, which will lie seen at llu- Princess Theatre to-night. It L the day the note is due and the invention must he turned over to the money-lender. Hetty has lost her job, and Billy as well. Sam boasts that lie can heat the horseless carriage on foot. He proposes that it he wins, Betty marry him. Betty, seeing an. opportunity to gain an audience and possibly find someone to lmy an interest in the

machine before il is too late, agrees. A spectacular race follows—Betty’s father in the queer, rattling, horseless carriage and Sam. in an old-fashioned track suit. The money-lender is there, hoping for the success of the invention he knows now is his. Billy is also present. Init Betty refuses to listen to him. The unusual climax of the race furnishes a genuine surprise climax for the picture, which Was adapted for the. screen by Violet Clarke. Lawranee Wheat has the role of Sam Robinson, Edwards Davis is the moneylender and .Julia Swayee Gordon is .Mrs Ballard. Dan < rimmins i-, east in the role of Petty's inventive father and Jacqueline Gad-mi also has a line part. A Topical, comedy and the Swiss family Robinson serial will also he shown to-night.