POLLARD’S PICTURES.

Hokitika Guardian, 31 March 1917, Page 3

POLLARD’S PICTURES.

A Griffiths Production. A big production by the great Griffiths, of “ The Birth of a Nation ” , —:n t i* _j. _____

tame, win be the star feature in Pollard’s all new display on Monday evening, when the big five-act play, “ A Child of the Paris Streets,” will be screened. Not only the producer Griffiths, but the artists Mae Marsh, Robert Harron,.and Tulty Marsh all appeared in “ The Birth of a Nation,” In “A Child of the Paris Streets,” mother-love leads to a cruel revenge. True, the mother is only an old liag, Queen of the Apaches, but she is a mother for all that, and her affection for her thieving boy, who is about to be sentenced to the galleys, is no common one. She loves him better than her own disreputable life, and when the presiding judge refuses to commute his judgment on the poor wretch before him, she determines he shall be made to suffer as she suffers. •Accordingly she sends her other son to steal the judge’s baby daughter from her cradle. She does not kill the child, but raises her as an apache, makes a criminal of her in every way possible, taking a delight in her vengeance and her living reminder. There is an indefinable charm about iVF Cl O noil virluv 1 n trri tl, C

Mae Marsh who plays the part of her own mother, first appearing as the wife of the stern judge who sent an apache to the galleys, and later as his daughter stolen by a band of apaches in revenge for the act of her father.