POLLARDS PICTURES.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 March 1917, Page 2

POLLARDS PICTURES.

Princess Theatre, Monday

On Monday evening Rex Beach’s great 10,000 ft story of the passions of men end women “The Ne’er-Do-Well” will be screened. It is a big picture that occupies the whole cf the programme, bat experienced picturegoers will admit that it ia d'fferent in many ways from most o f her long filtnß. The merit of the production is mostly doe to the peculiar suitability of the original story—generally credited to be Rex Beach’s best effort for conversion to a motion picture. The hero is of the sort that goes down well ns the principle figure in a picture, Ho is big muscled and likeable, and has a remarkable aptness for doing just the right thing when tbe camera man is around. He is wholly irresponsible, and has a most realistic manner when holding h's own in the scrapes into which hie dare-devil instincts lead him. Tbe girl of tbe piece is equally satisfactory. Most of the action 'takes place in Panama, which, with its quaint people, provides a faminatiug background, of which the producers have availed themselves in introducing pome exceedingly interesting glimpses of that mammoth engineering feat, With such material the picture could not help but be a creditable nno, so that for both those who have read the book itself and those wbo bave uot seen the picture offers an excellent two-honr entertainment.