POLLARD’S PICTURES

Hokitika Guardian, 22 March 1917, Page 3

POLLARD’S PICTURES

Princess Theatre, Monday 1 Pollard’s star picture for Monday evening at the Fiinnisa Theatre will be the 10,000tt pieturisation of Rjx Beach’s great work, “Ihe Ne'er-Do-Well.” The Selig producers claim for it that it is bigge", better and greater than the famous “Spoilers.” We have never had a more finished or cleverer cheracferisation than Kathlyn Williams’ “Mrs Courtland,” a woruau mauled to an old man, but who is in love with the ne’er-do-well (the man who never toils.) A nasreiful study, fanltlfsa in deportment, ft study within every bound of decorum, fbt tblazc. vit-U 'lio tiaoimd-up passman of h woman imprisoned m humdrum. There are tome interesting developments in the story, especially when the ne’er do-well marries the despised beauty, Ohiquita, despite the counter-plotting cf the jealous Mrs Uourtland, and again, later, when the hero is am-sltd on a charge of murder, and the characteristic fashion in which be clears himself of the charge. The piece waa produced at the Panama Canal, and enacted by practically the same cast that gave such a splendid rendering of “The Spoiler?.” The picture is a long one, entailing aa , it does 10,000 ft of film in the development of this passionate s’ory of lovß and jealousy.