AMUSEMENTS, MEETINGS, ETC.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19035, 12 June 1924, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS, MEETINGS, ETC.

MUNICIPAL PICTURES. “WOMAN PROOF.” Pictures will be resumed att the Opera House this evening, when George Ade’s story, “Woman Proof,” featuring Lila Lee and Thomas Meighan, will be screened. When it is flashed on the screen the spectators will see a genuine explosion of nearly 7000 cases of dynamite, which was used in the blasting of a thirtcen-mile tunnel at Huntington Lake, California, where the work of the biggest hydro-electric project in the world, involving the expenditure of 27,000,000 dollars, was in progress at the time the picture was filmed. This tunnel passes through a mountain, making the waters of Huntington Lake available for electric power. It is said to be the longest tunnel in the world. The project was undertaken by the Edison Company to develop electric power for Los Angeles. This location is 340 miles north-east > f Hollywood, in the Sierra Mountains, and was chosen after a prolonged search, a spot where the most spectacular scenes of this kind could be filmed. Mr Meighan plays the role of a civil engineer who is supervising this huge industrial scheme. In the picture, the tunnel is supposed to cave in, entombing scores of workmen. The rescue of these men forms some of the most thrilling scenes in the picture. For Saturday only a Paramount special, entitled “Stephen Steps Out,” starring Douglas Fairbanks jun., will be screened. Box plan at H. I. Jones and Sons’.