NORTHLAND PICTURES

Northland Age, Volume 24, Issue 50, 9 April 1925, Page 2

NORTHLAND PICTURES

Next Saturday-night’s feature is “Mile-a-Minute-Romeo,” with Tom Mix in the lead. Don’t miss this mighty whirlwind of action.

SPORTING YOUTH. Hailed as “The Great American Speed Picture,” “Sporting Youth” surpasses anything you've ever seen in tense, exciting moments. The climax is one of the most spectacular ever filmed—a fullfledged automobile race, witnessed by frenzied thousands, crammed with suspense, packed with roaring, crashing, splintering speed thrills! A dazzling story of young love, young life, and young ideas, bountifully equipped with money and searching for new sensations 1 The great race for pleasure—and the still greater automobile race will hold you spellbound ! From Byron Morgan’s great racing story. Lavishly staged, brilliantly enacted by a remarkable supporting cast, including beautiful Laura La Plante. To be shown on Wednesday next. Make a note of it. This is a picture you will regret missing.

COMING 18th. “The Man Who Won,” the Dustin Farnum production which is to be shown on Saturday, the 18th, is a drama of the old and gone west which is emphatically unusual in that it comprises but one situation done in such startling colours, such tremendous proportions arid with sueft imagination as to bring it well above the ordinary run of films with complicated dumbdoings. The display of heroism it offers is unusual. It depicts the moral regeneration of a gambler. A man, who after spending most of his life staking against Luck for money, finally staking his life on a woman’s honor is the part portrayed by Dustin Farnum. Wild Bill, as the gambler is called, goes “West” finally, in a blaze of glory. He returns to her home a weak woman persuaded against her will to leave her husband and children. Mr. Farnum is a good interpreter of Western character and his work for Wild Bill is about the best that has ever been seen. He is intensely sincere in all his action, riding and shooting and performing his part with fine realism.

Jacqueline Gadsden plays the feminine lead opposite Mr. Farnum, enacting the sorrowful role of Jessie, discontented wife of the poor miner.

COMING 22nd AND 24th. “The Thief of Bagdad,” an Oriental fantasy magnificently conceived and wonderfully produced, appealing to the imagination whilst pleasing the eye, and providing that “something different” in pictures for which we have looked so long. The story is simple—a mere thread to point the moral that "happiness must be earned” and weld together the adventures of the handsome thief of old Bagdad who, transformed by his love tor a fair lady, passes through the valley of wild b lasts to gain the magic box which enables him to rescue the city and fly away with his princess on a magic-carpet. It is impossible in so small a space to detail :he wonders ot the setting; suffi nt to say it is a marvel of ere r ve imagination and an elaboration of all that is best in American spectacular production. Douglas M Fairfanks acts besides perform* ing all manner of acrobatic feats in his portrayal of the lithe, barebodied thief; Julanne Johnston - is a beautiful and appealing enough Princess to warrant his devotion, and the supporting cast are excellent. This is a picture nobody should rai6s,