POLLARDS PICTURES

Hokitika Guardian, 18 May 1917, Page 3

POLLARDS PICTURES

•‘Tha Common Law”

Oa Monday evening next Hokit'ka picture patrons will have presented to them by Pollard’s Pictures the great seven-act pioturisation of the famous novel by Robert W. Chambers, “ The Common Law,” with the queen of the screen, Clara Kimball Young, in the leading role of “Valerie West, artist’s model. This great picture stan s alone in its success, two and three weeks’ runs in the larger centres of New Zealand having been the rule, and this on its merit as a picture and a play. The production is- by Albert Cap-Ham, direc or of “ Le» Miserable# ”and of all M..s<i Young’? receut, world eucceß-.es. W. Chambers has never written a more wonderful etoiy than this brilliant novel of New York life. Its heroine, Va’erie Wsßfc, artist’s model and {philosopher, is one of the mos ■ sympathetic figures in modern literature. The story of the book has been faithfully adhered to, and relates the romance of Valerie West, artists model and Loais Neville, artist. What is the Common Law ? It is answered by Valerie West. “ Yet, she sard, *• although a woman disobeys any law at her peril—laws which a man am? often -ignore with

impunity—the-.e is one law to wb.ch no woman should dere subscribe, and that law is sometimes kno-vn as the “ Common Law of Marriage.” -

Meet me to-night in dreamland, dear ; But beware and be wide awake, For the paths are dark in its lampless park, And you might slip into the lake, Chills begin when you're up to the chin In ice-oold water with duck-weed in ; And the only means to survive and endure Is a course of Woods’ Peppermint Cure,