POLLARDS PICTURED

Hokitika Guardian, 30 March 1917, Page 2

POLLARDS PICTURED

Grifiith’d great production “A Child of the Paris Streets ” will be the Btar feature in Pollard’s Picture display next Monday at the Princess Theatre. Mao Marsh as Julie, “ The Child of the Paris Streets ” is respOLsib'o for one of the bbst portrayal* of an Apache girl, living and existing amid a gang cf Parisian Apacbee. Strong in her infancy in revenge for the een--1 tencing of a boy Apache to the galleys. Julie has grown up in the environ-

ment of crime and squalor, a fullfledged child of the Apaches, Mme. Dufrane und her son devote their time to educating Julie iu all the arts of the Apache gang. She is taught to steal with such expertness as to escape the shrewdst of the police. Always in Julie's criminal life, Mme, Dufrane sees a living remainder of the revenge that she is perpetrating upon the judge. They brought her up a pickpocket capable of extracting a pocket-book under the most trying ciroumetnnces with h?r teeth if necessary but always able to “ prove ” her innooenoe by her winning manner and honest emile. But when they tried to ill-treat her, and threatened her with the same punishment another member of the gang had received she ran away—to Bobby Harron. This big Griffith production is splendidly acted and staged, as may be expected from the producer of “ The Birth of a Nation.” The whole five acts are full of interest and R°- _______