POLLARD'S PICTURES

Hokitika Guardian, 2 April 1917, Page 3

POLLARD'S PICTURES

+ Mae Marsh, To-niyht. '4. “ A Child of tho Paris Streets,”

the star feature for to by Pollard’s Pictures at the Princess Theatre, is a Tiiangle Fine Aits play produced by that king of pioducers, the great Griffiths, who is responsible f,r“The Brih of a Nation” and “Intolerance.” Mat of the leading a-tiata in “ A Child of the Pans Streets ” were aho in the great pietare, “ The Birth of ft Nation.” Menton may be rnado of Mae Marsh, Jennie Lee, Robert Huron, and Tally Marshall. The siory hi a very vivid one of the ParLiau underworld and the Paris Aj-arhe, who is pictured in all his gruesouiene’fl aud canning. The whole of the five acts teem with t >nse situations and sensations. The story starts with the sentencing of a sen cf tho old Apache Queen to the ■galleys for thefr. The Apache Queen loves this boy better than her life, and after his sentence retires to the can of the Apaches by the walls of Paris, ■waiting with a grim reeoiva to avenge herself upon tbs' judge. She gains ... ± _ it. «-l, a -I Af n i »■? _

access to the home of the yudge, kidnaps his child, Julie, and escapes with it. to the Apache den. Ysara elapse, and Mae Marsh, who plajed the part of tho judge’s wife, the mother of Julie, now appears, as tbs daughter, Julie, brought before us as an Apache and it is then that tho real play of “ A Child of the Paris Streets ” begins. The piece is well supported by a few sterling picture?.