POLLARD’S PICTURES.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 June 1917, Page 2

POLLARD’S PICTURES.

BILLIE BURKE TO-NIGHT.

To-night the world-famed Billie Burke will appear in the seven-act Triangle play of “Peggy,” the star picture presented by Pollard’s Pictures at the. Princess Theatre. The play of “Peggy” was specially written for Billie Burke in order to display her versatility. Billie Burke is as Irish as mio shainrovK, and in the part of ‘ Peggy 'she is as Scotch as the heather. ivution of tho Scotch American girl, Peggy Cameron is a piece of characterisation that is a splendid living • thing, bubbling all over with fun; her scenes of pathos are like cloud glooms gliding • over the Highland meadows, whose touches dome and ;go,i hut,dflie the Jbold crags guarding limpid lochs, the sterner dramatic scenes stand out in bold relief. No better proof of her great powers as an a'ctrses need be given than tho scene in which Andrew Cameron (tho stern and proud uncle of Peggy) and some elders of the church were going to order a girl out of town because she was about to a mother, though unmarried. Peggy remanded that they look for the man. Much to the discomfiture of Andrew, the man was Colin, his own son. The uncle reluctantly consented to the marriage of Colin and Janet, the girl who had been on trial. Included in the display is a splendid travel film entitled, “Through the Death Valley in a Dodge Motor Car.” This groat picture shows 0. K. Parker’s great motor rido over hills and mountains 11,000 ft high, the only way to get down, being over great r masses of storm tossed boulders, that havo accumulated in the torrential downpours that sweep that" region, leaving these boulders often piled 50ft, in height.