OLYMPIA PICTURES.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXI, 11 August 1921, Page 1

OLYMPIA PICTURES.

“THE STILL ALARM.” Few, if any, stage productions in the annals of theatrical history have become better known to the public than the great melodrama, which made its appearance in 1880, “The Still Alarm.” As a photoplay at the Olympia to-night of tHe picturesque charm and romance of the original story has been carefully adhered to and the thrilling fire scenes have been depicted ,in a manner which was utterly impossible on the stage. In the making of these scenes seven fire companies wene used to fight the flames and the picture shows the men resting at the fire stations at the time the “still alarm” is received by the sweetheart of the heroine, the entire department rushing madly down the street and the fighting of the flames, together with the many hairbreadth escapes from falling stairways and crumbling walls.