POLLARD’S PICTURES

Hokitika Guardian, 17 May 1917, Page 3

POLLARD’S PICTURES

Clara Kimball Yourg

The management take special pride in announcing that on Monday evening next at the Princess Theatre they will present Clara Kimball Yonng in the widely advertised and most, successful picture production of Robert W. Chambers f mous novel I'The Uomman Law.” Few re'esn productions have attracted tho advance attention that this picture has aroused. The story of the book has baen faithfully adhered to and under the masterly direction of Albert Capelhne. His great work has been filmed in a seven act play that occupies the whole of the evening. The story., relates the romance of Valerie West artist model and philosopher and Louiß Neville, artist. The scenes are maiDly set in the heart of .New York. Robert W. Chambers has never written a more wonderful story than the brilliant novel of New York lifeValerio West as portrayed by Clara Kimbell'Young ia one of the most sympathetic figures in modern lifcsra. ture. The success of “ The Common Law ”in New Zealand has . beau go great that a run of two and three weeks in the larger centres has been the rule, Wbat is " The Common Law.” It is the story of an artist model wbo places love above law of any sort yet. Although a woman disobeys any law at her peril, laws that a man may often ignore with impunity, there is one law to which no woman dare subscribe, and that is sometimes known as “The Common Law of Marriage.”